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Nobara on my main gaming PC, Mint on my laptop, Steam(Arch-base) on my Steam Deck. Virtual servers, mostly Ubuntu, but I play around with Alma, Rocky, Raw Debian, and Arch.
I also play around with random ones on my laptop. Mint is the current one, but I rotate distros for that device every 6-12 months.
Devuan.
Before that was lubuntu. Snaps and systemd bugged me. Decided it was time to jump ship. Devuan just worked.
I've been running Endeavour with xfce for a few months now and love it but I have Nobara running in a VM and have been thinking about switching to it because I have been doing more gaming lately.
I've used pretty much all the things, from slackware and debian to redhat and arch and even various BSDs, but these days it's mostly nixos that makes me happy. High initial investment, but so worth it in the end.
Arch on everything.
(Servers only)
I am using Pop!_OS, but probably want to change to something leaner soon.
Artix for my desktop and Alpine for my pi. I like my minimalism and hate systemd with a passion.
Slackware 15.0 on my desktop, Void on my laptop. I try other stuff on my laptop from time to time (FreeBSD has been my favourite experiment so far, but the wifi and bluetooth are just too bad for me to be able to use it regularly), but always go back to Void. I don't distro-hop on my main machine.
Fedora on desktop, Rocky on servers except my K8s cluster which is on Fedora Coreos
Manjaro on my Gaming rig, AntiX on my laptops. Some other laptops use BSD distros. I'll switch to o Arch olonnmy Gaming rig soon as manjaro is way too unstable and the drivers for my new GPU don't work.
Arch on desktop and Fedora Silverblue on my laptop. I have a Proxmox server and on this I have VMs with mainly Fedora, Arch and Debian running.
Manjaro on the workstation and Laptop, Arch on the server - with exposed BSD VM, else isolated
I started in FreeBSD for a decade, and then went to Arch Linux for a couple of years.
I went to OpenBSD for another decade, and then I suddenly needed Linux for specific software, and chose openSUSE Tumbleweed based on technical merit.
I ended up ditching Tumbleweed earlier this year, and now I run Debian bookworm.
I used to use Slack, but it lost its way. Arch is really, really cool, but I've become more interested in Void. Currently, perhaps surprisingly, I use Alpine because I like how minimal it is.
Manjaro
Switched to Slackware after 15 came out. Loving it.
Kubuntu/Plasma on the desktop, plus the Steam Deck
My primary driver for the last few months has been OpenSUSE MicroOS (immutable based on Tumbleweed).
From the server perspective majority of my servers ive cutover to OpenSUSE Leap Micro, as most if not all of my workloads are container based. For some of my non-container things i typically land on Debian.
I was using PopOS as my daily for a year or so, but recently swapped to Mint again. I've been using Mint on/off for a really long time, and always seem to gravitate back.
Not for daily use but I run 3 Ubuntu servers here hosting various types of services.
I've been distro hopping (mostly Debian-based) for a while, and for some reason, I just kind of settled on Zorin. Mostly because I didn't feel like setting things up again, but it's also a decent distro that just works for me.
I used to use Slack, but it lost its way. Arch is really, really cool, but I've become more interested in Void. Currently, perhaps surprisingly, I use Alpine because I like how minimal it is.
Fedora all the way. I've been using it for 6-7 years now, I simply love how it is pretty stable, while still being able to have mostly up-to-date software. And I never had any issues during versions upgrades. And I guess that I can also count SteamOS as a distribution that I use thanks to my Steam Deck.
Fedora for gaming and Debian for the servers. I was an avid Ubuntu user for years, but for some reason snap doesn't do it for me.
I've used linux either as my main or secondary OS for about 18 years. Ubuntu is still the easiest to setup and get started, but in my experience becomes the least flexible over time to tweak to my liking. Arch linux does have its cons, and often requires care and time to address updates, but it is by far my favorite distro — pacman + AUR and the full control of my OS are what makes it truly feel like my own OS and computer