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submitted 1 year ago by owatnext@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

What Linux distribution or distributions do you personally use?

I myself am a daily Void user. I used to use Devuan, but wanted to try rolling release and ended up loving Void!

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[-] WreckingBANG@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Currently ZorinOS on my Main Machine and Arch on my Notebook, but when i have my new AMD GPU i will use Fedora.

[-] jannis@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on my laptop, Debian on my server and SteamOS on the Steam Deck.

[-] grandiosocrown@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I use Pop OS! on my daily computer and laptop and Ubuntu on my home server

[-] bluegandalf@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Have been using Fedora for a year now. Had used Pop OS for about 6months before that.

[-] Mjb@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Using Garuda (basically just Arch with some bloat) because I'm 1) too lazy to install Arch myself and 2) on an Nvidia card and Wayland WMs still seem buggy for me. Once (if ever) Wayland is stable on Nvidia I'll probably look for an alternative

[-] cynetri@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Been switching between Arch and Linux Mint for a while now. I run Arch and EndeavourOS on my laptops (Arch on my daily 2-in-1, Endeavour on my TV laptop) but I can't decide which is better for VR on my main rig... probably because VR on Linux is kinda in a pathetic state anyway lol. Next week I'm getting a second GPU for simple display-out so I can use my 6800XT to run VR in a Windows VM, probably on Arch

Edit: landed on EndeavourOS, basically just Arch with a GUI installer, DE by default, and some other tweaks. It's what I kept turning Arch into pretty much lol

[-] bzLem0n@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

NixOS on everything but my Steam Deck which is running SteamOS.

[-] lhx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thoughts on NixOS? I have heard a lot of positive buzz, but I don't think I understand it fully. (I'm primarily debian, ubuntu, fedora, arch user, and I've admin'd a FreeBSD server too).

[-] CanOpener@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Fedora. Used to use Arch but it broke and I moved to Fedora, it's a way more polished experience. I like how Fedora is stable but not "stale" like Debian. Want to try Fedora Silverblue as well.

[-] Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I highly recommend silverblue! The only thing that can be frustrating is Steam and other game related things, particularly with wireless controllers it seems. But overall it makes it very hassle free imo.

[-] dreimal@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago

Xubuntu for over ten years now. It was the first thing I landed on when in a panic that my store-bought, WinXP -preinstalled PC was failing and I couldn't afford to be without it nor replace it. Even after being so grateful for it rescuing me, it's also taught me, and worked flawlessly for all I need from my computers since.

I'm currently using a mix of Arch and Fedora, but I've been starting to look in to NixOS.

[-] beteljuice@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

NixOS. Declarative reproducible immutable systems are the future.

[-] pumpkin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I'm a opensuse tumbleweed user on my desktop and laptop. I also have an ubuntu home server.

I really like tumbleweed, but I have been thinking of switching to an immutable distro like guix or nix. I've tried guix several times and found it pretty good, but never stick with it due to its lack of KDE plasma support. Maybe I should give nix a try.

[-] hib@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago
[-] honk@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I'm currently running Mint on my Computer and Ubuntu on servers.

[-] Kealper@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Linux Mint for desktops/laptops (Cinnamon if the hardware can handle it, MATE if it's a bit long in the tooth), and Debian for servers.

I've used several distros (yes, even Arch btw) through the years but I just keep finding myself coming back to the Debian-based ones. I guess I just feel most at-home with the way it has things set up, or something.

[-] JCSpark@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Mint with Cinnamon is my daily driver on my desktop and laptop for almost 3 years now. I ran a company for a while using Linux and managed to find everything I needed for software to run administration. It was great. I still have a windows tablet for troubleshooting and equipment specific requests, but I always feel weird logging into it.

[-] KHTangent@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I've used Mint since I started using Linux, and never had any major issues. I've therefore just stuck with it. I don't always have the time to tinker with my machine if something should break, and Mint usually just works when I need it, while still providing flexibility when I want it (and Timeshift to fix it when I break stuff)

[-] michael@possumpat.io 1 points 1 year ago

I used to use Void as my main distro, but then the developer drama made me shy away from it (keep in mind, this was like forever ago and I haven’t looked at Void at all since). After that I floated around trying everything, from Gentoo to the BSDs (I know, not Linux). Nowadays I use OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I got tired of doing everything manually and OpenSUSE just makes everything so much easier to use, IMO.

[-] Atemu@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

I got tired of doing everything manually

Perhaps check out NixOS

[-] ironveil@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Arch on everything, including servers. It's just so easy to install everything via the AUR & configure everything easily. Plus the wiki is amazing. Although it is a pain to setup sometimes

[-] wrott@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Debian 12 for now is a great investment for the next 5 years, tho.

[-] octobob@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Arch baybeeee 💯💯💯

[-] aha@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I use Arch Linux with KDE Plasma myself

[-] ballogh@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago
[-] Jo351@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Manjaro + SteamOS. Wanted to refresh myself on gaming with Linux/Proton prior to the Deck launch and Manjaro seemed the most similar. Helped that my Win11 install decided to crash explorer.exe every 5 seconds around the same time.

[-] ScottE@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use Manjaro, but I run it like vanilla Arch (for example pacman/yay and not pamac). I find this to be a sweet spot for me - rolling releases are so incredibly nice, and Manjaro being slightly slower than Arch is good from a stability standpoint in my experience.

I use ZFS all over the place, including the root storage pool on my home server, which has overall been a great experience with systemd-boot.

[-] estebanlm@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Manjaro. I am a guy of habits, so I never really distro-hopped, I once tried to install Arch and failed to configure everything so I tried endeavour and failed too (which would mean I am not a tech guy either ;). Ultimately, I'd say that the distribution does not matters much once you are used to it, you can always get what you want from any of them. The only thing I really like in comparison with others is pacman :)

[-] darkl1nk@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Ubuntu or Kubuntu. Long are gone the days where I used to tinker with different Linux flavors.

Fortunately, I can afford powerful enough systems so I do not have to be worried about optimizing every single aspect of the OS.

I want things just to work out of the box. I am aware that this applies to more distros than Ubuntu, but I just do not have the time and energy anymore.

[-] MarkHughes4096@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Just Ubuntu. I have tried plenty of others but Ubuntu just seems to tick most boxes for me.

EDIT: I am looking forward to the new Pop! when it comes out, I will surely give it a try, No idea if I will switch then though.

[-] screx@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Moved from Arch to Nix and loving it!

[-] 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago

What do you most like? Thoughts on why others should give it a shot?

[-] marcdw@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Currently... Slackware on main laptop. Slint (Slackware-based) on mini-pc. MX Linux (fvwm respin), Void, and OpenBSD on old laptop. NsCDE is desktop on all except MX.

[-] Sophia@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I love to see Slackware representation in these threads, easily my favorite distribution of all time.

[-] cfx_4188@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

I've gotten used to Slackware in 25 years.

[-] dirac_field@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago

My laptop is on Manjaro and has been running flawlessly for years ...such a great experience with gnome 40+

My desktop is also on Manjaro, and things could not be more different. No Wayland, no animations in the gnome desktop, visual glitches since the last update ...guess it doesn't play well with Nvidia drivers. Anyone managing something decent with gnome+Nvidia?

[-] blacpythoz@hamro.world 0 points 1 year ago
[-] DigDoug@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Arch.

I've done a reasonable amount of distrohopping, but I always come crawling back because I've never found anything that can compete with the AUR.

[-] BendyLemmy@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Haha yes, I have to stay out of arguments involving Snap vs Flatpak for this reason. I ended up leaving Mint through issues with my HTPC install - with Plex, the 'Home Theater' app died it's death, and options were tough to install - so I went for Arch, failed to get that working well, then tested KDE with Manjaro - bingo!

Until a couple of months ago, I was installing PlexHTPC via AUR which unpacked the snap and installed it - that's so awesome... though now it's dead so I had to jump onto the newly opened Flatpak option (AUR stuck at 1.30.1-1 whilst Flathub is up to 1.39.2).

After the PPA nightmares I had with 'buntu, and later with Mint (PPA's made for 'buntu often don't work) it's like a dream.

[-] Bulletdust@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I haven't experienced an issue adding PPA's in about four years. The package manager simply does what it's meant to do and things just work.

[-] daan@lemmy.vanoverloop.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

Fedora, because it just works and it ships recent software versions.

I also like Fedora Silverblue, and projects like ublue are very interesting in my opinion.

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