Asklemmy

I dual boot Windows and Fedora on my personal desktop. To keep gaming and productivity separate.

Personal laptop swaps between Fedora, PopOS, and Endeavor.

Work is Fedora or PopOS on my XPS and MacOS on my M1 (not by choice, but Linux for Apple Silicon is not completed).

Wife's computer is Windows since she games and does school work.

#garudalinux #archlinux , cause I have full control over everything on my system. Everything else gets put in a virtual machine using KVM.

Win 10, explicitly because I run CAD software (Autodesk Inventor specifically at home) and the linux compatibility workarounds like wine have not worked properly the last few times I have tried them. I could dual boot but I just don't feel like putting the time in to set it up and use it anymore.

You must get a completely different view than "normal people" here. I use Alma Linux 9 (RHEL9 clone) because it's what we use at work, and I've known RedHat since 1999. I use it because it generally is exceptionally stable, and can easily go 6 months without forcing a reboot. It also is much less likely to spy on me, and does most everything I need a computer to do.

Also, using XFCE for my DE means I don't have to relearn something every release version (XFCE has stayed the same all through v4 more or less, which is like at least since 2012. Some new icons here or there.

No forced cloud integration, my account is local, the way I like it. I also am much less concerned about malware (maybe this is unjustified in 2023, I guess IDK).

I got fed up with Microsoft with the rollout of Win10, and switched to Scientific Linux 7 at that time (RHEL7) and just migrated this year to Alma 9 and a new PC. I actually ran the same workstation for 12 years before that. Somehow, even with updates Linux doesn't seem to bloat the way Windows did / would. I.e. I haven't had a Linux install get slower over time for no reason like every Windows install.

Pop_OS. It's the most polished Linux distro I've found and has nice keyboard workflows in the GUI.

Garuda Linux on my laptop, because I need a system that can play my absurd steam library, emulate like a champ, compile a wide variety of things easily, and support an array of random other tasks like media dumping and ham radio programming. It's treated me well thus far.

Gentoo gang

Trying to balance all the libraries and programs I need for ham radio, astronomy, CAD/CAM, emulation (VMs and consoles), containers, gaming, flight simulation, and software development basically requires the granularity of fine tuning it provides.

windows 10 desktop PC for ableton live, linux mint xfce laptop for productivity

Void Linux on my Thinkpad and Thinkstation. On Pinephone and Pinetab I'm running postmarketOS. I really like postmarketOS and using apk, so if I were to get a new laptop or every change the distro on my laptop or desktop, then I might try Alpine. On raspberry pi 3, it's raspbian. I use that mainly to run pi-hole and pivpn.

I distro hopped for a little while, but then settled on Void. It does what I need and was easy to get set up how I want. It's a rolling release and I haven't ever had any big issues with upgrading. The worst issue I've had was when they recently removed pipewire-media-session and switched to wireplumber. After checking a couple posts on reddit and on void's documentation, I got it set up the recommended way without any trouble and audio is working fine.

edit: wanted to add that my Thinkpad also has OpenBSD as a dual boot option, but I haven't booted into it in a long time. One day I'd like to try a BSD as a server(not on a laptop, of course.) Also, the Thinkstation has Windows 10/Void dual boot, but I never boot into Windows.

Mac. I tried linux and while the future is promising, I had too many things go poorly for me to fully adopt it at the moment. Windows has been going downhill for a long time now, but I think windows 11 is the true point of no return. So I use mac, which feels like a nice middle ground between the two in terms of features, usability, etc.

Fedora 36 on both my desktop and laptop. (that's GNU/Linux). Its not the latest because I have outdated hardware. Occasionally dual booth Windows for Valorant and FL Studio.

As to why. I enjoy an Operating System where I can change everything. For me this is Linux. I customize to the point where everything works then I don't touch it. I used to be obsessed with changing stuff. But this way I have it the way I like it. If anyone is curious, go check out !unixporn@lemmy.ml

Windows 10 for machine learning and gaming, and Mint Linux for almost everything else. I fucking hate the NVIDIA/Microsoft monopoly with CUDA/etc but they're pretty much the only game in town at this point

Manjaro i3 as my personal machine.

Mac OS on M1 MBP as my primary work machine.

Win 11 on the company-provided laptop, primarily for when I need Windows-only software (Visual Studio, etc.) or run labs in Hyper-V.

Both Windows 11 and Arch Linux with KDE. I am using my PC mostly for gaming and drawing. Since almost all games in my steam library work without tinkering and Krita and Aseprite work like a charm I rarely use Windows 11 at the moment.

manjaro and win11 for some obscure things I need it for.

Windows 11. I play games and my PC is hooked up to an HDR tv, so it's easier than 10. I also don't want to be left behind on tech/UI because of my stubborness.

I don't think it's an improvement over 10, especially the Start Menu. I've had to do some 3rd party tweaking and change to Enterprise edition so I can get rid of "recommended" stuff.

I've had some small experience with Ubuntu and Linux in general via a laptop server and seedbox but I just find it too bothersome to do small tasks compared to Windows. I'm sure it'd change eventually but I don't want to have to look up a command every time I want to change something.

I dual boot Windows and Arch Linux. I only keep Windows around for some games that don't work in Linux currently, as well as the occasional software that doesn't have a Linux equivalent (or the equivalent has issues such as compatibility) though. Mostly everything else is done in Linux, and I'm quite happy with it!

As for the "why" on Linux, I've always loved interacting in a CLI environment, and enjoy the dev experience on Linux. And as cliche as it sounds, I do like "owning" my system and feeling like I actually get to make executive decisions as to how/what it runs.

Linux Mint (Cinnamon) as my daily driver, and if I absolutely must use Windows for something then it's LTSC IoT edition (at least then it is usable!)

I'd still be on Windows 2K if it weren't for everything. Stayed with 7 as long as I could. Given up caring now.

Windows 10 for software compatibility and gaming, and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with Ubuntu for everything that has to do with programming. I think it's the best of both worlds.

I used to have a dual-boot system (Windows and Ubuntu) but WSL is easier to configure and very convenient.

Linux

I swear that the last time I've ever shouted at a machine was when I was installing the latest release of Windows Server and I was unable to find the most basics elements on their graphic interface. It's like I was a baby in a toypark. And they have the guts to call it a server. I've seen enough dark patterns in their install steps to make any sane person go mad. Windows is leaking bad faith though all his interface. You know what I want to do and you purposefully stop me from doing it. You are not an ally and not even a tool.

I tried Macosx years ago too, but from now on I will only use any reasonable brand of linux.

There's a lot I love about Linux, and when I ran a potato computer and ran my own business and had a PS2/3/4 for gaming, Linux was awesome. Got into Destiny back in the D1 days so when I built a PC in 2020 I definitely wanted to play D2, which meant I had to run Windows. By that point I had also been running Windows at work because I need a lot of Adobe and Excel so it wasn't too bad to switch.

Windows 11. Because my PC comes with a 12th gen Intel processor, and from what I've heard Windows 10 doesn't really know how to address the P and E cores properly. I've tried both Linux and macOS, they're both not my cup of tea, and I keep finding myself crawling back to Windows.

On my old laptop, I was using Windows 10.

I just use Ubuntu 22.04 on my personal home-built PC. It just works, and I'm not interested in too much tinkering. My wife's PC also runs Ubuntu 22.04, I have a ton of raspberry Pi's with standard raspbian on them. And my work laptop runs Windows 11 and it is decent enough.

I'm happy. I can run Steam with all the games I want pretty flawlessly, with some minor tinkering sometimes. But it is a solid experience.

GNU Guix System. 100% free software, focus on reproducible builds, declarative configuration, packages are just Scheme modules stored in a git repository. I've written packages for guix (I helped with the Icedove package) and find it to be fairly straightforward once I understood the syntax and basic data structures.

One particularly nifty feature of guix is that you can specify a commit or version number to build a package with, so if the package is out of date you can still get the latest version (assuming it still builds of course).

Depends. My laptop has Windows 10 as a backup, but runs current Linux mint w/cinnamon DE

My desk pc is on Windows 7, with a secondary drive I can boot from that's tuning running mint as well.

The household pc is running debian w/plasma because my wife likes it better than cinnamon. I tried mint on it, and gor whatever reason, it didn't "like" mint but debian works fine.

There's also the old PC I used to use as my writing computer. It's running debian with xfce because it doesn't get used by anyone else, and it's slow as hell with plasma or cinnamon. I don't really use it much, but nobody wanted the damn thing, so I keep it set up for the occasions when I need to be able to lock a door so I'm not interrupted. Which is when I have writer's block, not the other thing lol.

I use Solus OS . Pretty much the perfect distro for me , I have tried so many distros (ubuntu , mint , endeavour , fedora etc) but no one felt as smooth and snappier to me as solus . Eopkg(it's package manager) might be limited but has all the softwares I need m so no complaining from my side . Also I like how fast it is . Solus is a rolling release distro and is still very stable , never encountered any problems with it . I was afraid that it may die and started looking for alternatives ,sadly never found one as good as solus to me . But thankfully Solus's founder and buddies of budgie's lead are back and making sure the project isn't dead.