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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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[–] Link@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago
[–] Bretzel@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Switch from Windows to Fedora as my daily driver and for some gaming. Works flawlessly and I love every parts of it. Linux has such cool distros and communities

[–] dirac_field@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

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[–] retnuh@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

Switched around in the past but been on Debian with KDE for the past year or so

[–] aski3252@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm pretty vanilla. I use fedora for desktop and debian for servers.

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[–] grandiosocrown@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] lynny@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Gentoo Linux. I am too particular about my system to use anything else.

[–] JRepin@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

A couple of them. At home my main distro for desktop and laptop is openSUSE Tumbleweed. I like it the most since it is a rolling release (with fresh and up-to-date software versions) and they actually have some CI/testing setup so they do some basic tests of packages before releasing them and it is thus one of the most stable rolling release distros. On top of that they also ahve a system setup so that a BTRFS snapshot is done before and after each update automatically and a GRUB boot entry is added. In this case if something would go wrong with the update you can always boot back into old system before the update. Also they have one of the best KDE Plasma integrations.

In addition to this I also use SteamOS (Arch-based) on the Steam Deck, PopOS on my work laptop (would use Kubuntu but that is what they forced us to standardise on), and one machine I have is still running Gentoo. All are runnign with KDE Plasma as a desktop.

[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Debain - cuz my production VMs need to run all day, every day.

[–] datwillpowerdo@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I use primarily Fedora for desktop/dual boot and minimal Rocky for server. I mess with Arch and Manjaro when I'm feeling adventurous.

[–] AceLucario@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

After some hopping, I've been settled on Fedora KDE spin for a while because it just works for me.

[–] Ultra980@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I personally use NixOS (unstable) on my PC and openSUSE Tumbleweed on my laptop (didn't have time to switch it to NixOS).

I also use NixOS on my Pi 4

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[–] open_world@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Endeavor OS. I've been sticking to solely Arch or Arch-based distros since 2017 and I've been pretty happy so far.

[–] petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

I'm using Fedora Silverblue. I can recommend it.

[–] MavTheHack@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Alpine is honestly my go to

[–] r_a_trip@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Endeavour OS. Been on it nearly for two years now.

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[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Mainly running Gentoo, on my desktop, laptop, and even my desktop at work. Though my homelab is mainly Debian, with a small number of AlmaLinux nodes as well.

At work it's almost all RHEL though, since support contracts are nice.

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[–] domsch@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

Currently i'm on Arch. Mostly because it's the easiest option for me to get a Plasma Desktop that's up to date. KDE moves so fast nowadays, that i want to be on the edge.

[–] floppyslapper@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These days I mostly use Manjaro, though I've been thinking of giving the Suse rolling release a try.

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[–] Lyxea@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago
[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Arch baybeeee 💯💯💯

[–] Kealper@lemmy.world 5 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.

[–] deeznats@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Right now I'm using PopOs but I'll switch to Opensuse Leap or Fedora. I hope they don't give me any trouble with the Nvidia drivers

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[–] kudzu@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used Fedora for a while but now I'm using OpenSUSE and I like it

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[–] floppingfish@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Linux Mint, it just works

Hanna Montana Linux as my daily driver. Endeavouros for work.

[–] reallychris@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

xubuntu. when this install gets too messy i'm probably going to try the minimal edition and install my old openbox or awesome wm configs.

[–] lhx@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD, Arch. :) I need to learn NixOs or something that is immutable / reproducible at some point.

[–] Blaire@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I switched from Windows 10 to Nobara last month when I built my new PC! I used Ubuntu back in 2012-2013 but I ended up switching back to Windows. Now that I'm much older my priorities have changed and with the big push for Linux gaming in recent years it seemed like a no-brainer to me. I always enjoyed the tinkering back in the day and now I feel at home.

[–] mjpc13@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

I use EndeavourOS with Hyprland on my laptop but I am considering trying VanillaOS (once they move to Debian base). On desktop I have Ubuntu 20.04 and EndeavourOS (both on Gnome)

[–] DarthVi@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Pop_OS on both laptop and desktop, since it has integrated nvidia graphic drivers and handles them without too much hassle. Before switching to Pop_OS I used to use Fedora for many years.

[–] poorsocialskills@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

My initial Linux years ago was RedHat, then Fedora. Since then I’ve generally used Ubuntu mainline with a healthy pile of Gnome customization. Right now I’m looking at Kubuntu or KDE Neon, since I’m finding I prefer KDE Plasma to Gnome.

[–] Adi2121@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fedora. I started my Linux journey 1 year ago with Pop!_OS, then switched to Endeavor OS, an Arch based distro for beginners because I felt limited due to the Ubuntu/Debian base. I liked Endeavor, but it was too easy to break and I had to reinstall it several times. Ichoese Fedora due to its stability while maintaing up-to-date packages. Fedora has been a great experience for a long time.

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[–] EXiLExJD@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I started with Kubuntu, then hopped to EndeavourOS and then moved to Fedora KDE. I've been using Fedora KDE since F36 released and have been quite happy with it.

[–] award@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] FallingTrees@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

No matter what I do I always end up back at Fedora, Silverblue specifically for the last several releases, fits my desire for an OS that gets out of my way and just lets me do what I need to do.

[–] lalay721@feddit.it 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I started using Linux in October 2020 with Manjaro KDE (not including trying out nearly every major beginner-friendly distro in VMs before installing it on bare metal), then I moved to EndeavourOS - still with KDE - in July 2021 and am still on that same install.

[–] Saauan@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kubuntu, not much configuration and pretty accessible for me !

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[–] aes@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Fedora, I'm not a tech person by Linux user standards and I just need an OS that works

[–] BasedDebianUsr@monero.house 4 points 1 year ago

Debian testing w. KDE on the desktop, & stable on my vps

edit: oh yea username checks out

[–] IslanderGose@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

I use Arch Linux on my laptop and debian on my desktop. I'm currently working towards setting up a server on my desktop, just need to figure out where to start and what I want in it. I personally love Arch for it's repos as it's all there at my fingertips if I want to download them.

In terms of DE/WM I use qtile on arch and cinnamon on debian. I don't know what I'd do without qtile lol not sure if I'd ever switch it as my main WM.

[–] m105@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

Now I am using fedora, before that I used debian stable.

[–] Kaspeti@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Only used Linux for a couple of months and use Fedora currently. Been through a fair few distros, but think Im gonna stick with Fedora for a while.

[–] Signfeld@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Pop!_OS. I have always loved System76 and have one of their laptops, as well as an HP Dev One that I use as a daily driver. The convenience and tiling system of the distro is the simplest I've used so far and works perfectly. I used to run Arch but I just don't want to deal with it anymore, honestly.

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[–] CjkOvPDwQw@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Void Linux as well here. Actually keep using it because I maintain some packages there.

[–] rwxrwxrwx@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These days I'm basic and I use Ubuntu.

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