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I think how happy I am depends on what I am comparing it too.
Compared to Windows? I am very happy with Mint since thus far everything I need works, and I can even play some games.
Compared to my dream distro which doesn't exist. Not as happy. Since it works, but asks me to use the terminal more than I want to.
I use Fedora Silverblue which actively discourages using the terminal.
In fact I hid it from the gnome application menu since I can't think of a reason to ever use it.
Been using Debian stable again this year, but this time in a VM (Windows host. I know, I know.)
I'm very happy with it. I tried other distros but kept coming back to Debian.
I've found that Windows is a pretty bad hypervisor
It really is bad compared to KVM. Though for my usecase of pandoc+vim, running Debian with VMware does the job. Browsing the web, watching videos, and listening to music are okay too. It's very bad for GPU accelerated stuff though which is what the Windows host is for.
I want to dual boot again but I'm still working on this project on one of my SSDs so I don't want to touch anything yet.
You also could virtualize Windows. Just make it full screen or do GPU and USB passthough
I haven't tried it yet but I would rather dual boot for games with anti-cheat that don't work with Wine or a VM.
I currently use endeavourOS and I am happy with it, due to it being "just Arch with some wallpapers and optional extras".
I am open for more though, even if it's just for trying out :)
Pretty happy. Debian works good. Rhel works good too.
The Toyota Camry and Lexus 300 of distros.
I enjoy Fedora. I can complain all day about Redhat being evil, but I haven't found a desktop distro that scratches the same itch, so I'm happy for the time being.
On the server side, Debian is perfect for me and I have zero qualms with it.
Currently on Fedora. Pretty stable, but I really hate some parts:
Otherwise
Using Mint on my laptop for 3 years. I don't really like it. I want to switch on OpenBSD to taste pain and suffering (But Devuan is my plan B. I love Devuan :3)
On my desktops and laptops, I've been slowly migrating from Mint to EndeavourOS. Mint will always have a special place in my heart and I don't think I'll ever abandon it completely, but I've been falling in love with Endeavour lately. The Arch ecosystem had a bit of a learning curve, but once it clicked, it felt great. And then for servers, I've finally switched away from Ubuntu over to Debian. The familiar environment without all the bloat feels perfect to me.
I want something that looks like Q4OS (looks like XP or 7) but with Wayland like Kubuntu. I'm not quite there yet.
I stopped distro hopping pretty much after trying arch. I still love arch, but my new love is chimera Linux.
For servers I used to run Debian stable, but these days I'm pretty set on alpine.
Very happy with my Arch setup since 3-4 years I believe. But my laptop that I use and update too irregularly to justify having Arch on it, probably needs an alternative :D
Kubuntu: It's doing the job I expect it to do.
I've been using Ubuntu or one of its variants for the last 20 years after having moved from Mandrake back in the day. It has never let me down. It's hands down one of the easiest distros to use and I trust the company behind it, Canonical, which has helped Linux move forward in great strides.
Part of which I've stayed with Ubuntu is also because it uses the Debian package system which, back in the early 2000's, was the easiest to use with its automatic package dependency management, contrary to Red Hat's RPM based packaging system where you could fall into a dependency rabbit hole. And I've never wanted to go back to and RPM-based distro ever sine from the PTSD lol! Though recent experiences with CentOS showed me it has improved quite a it.
Have you ever gone wandering under a clear blue sky?
Tried out Mint, Debian w/ KDE, switched to Debian w/ gnome, now settled into Cachy OS. Only thing I'm wanting for is support for my Dell Canvas touch and totem, but I expect that'll get pushed to Open Tablet Drivers before long
Somewhat happy with NixOS. Documentation is still abysmal but it's the most stable yet up to date distro I've used so far.
I wish the community were better and the decision-making less top down and anarchist at the same time, but there's maybe a fork in the making (Auxolotl) that I'm keeping an eye on. Maybe it'll pop up in phoronix or the nix community forums once it's stable, then it might be worth switching to.