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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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[-] arbiter329@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Does SteamOS count? My steam deck is my current “Linux” machine.

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[-] 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.

[-] cloventt@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 year ago

Fedora, for the “It Just Works”™ experience of an enterprise-supported distro.

[-] award@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Debian is the best

[-] Raphael@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

The best distribution is Fedora Silverblue KDE, I refuse to call it kinoite or any other stupid mineral name though.

[-] rwxrwxrwx@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

These days I'm basic and I use Ubuntu.

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[-] deeznats@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

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

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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[-] hib@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago
[-] 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.

[-] 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.

[-] hanzzen@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

EndeavourOS on my desktop, Red Hat and Ubuntu on servers(at work).

[-] CaptJRoger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

I personally use Pop OS just because it has so many of the settings I like out of the box. I started out on Ubuntu, but one day I felt like a change but I couldn't get into other distros for one reason or another. Pop OS was similar enough to what I liked, but also different enough to be fresh for me.

[-] coldredlight@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I run PopOS on my laptop. It's been really solid, except Linux doesn't support the speaker amp so I can only get sound out via the headphone jack or bluetooth.

[-] branchial@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Guix. It's awesome to know exactly what I have installed and be able to replicate it on other machines.

[-] 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.

[-] hellothisisdog@yiffit.net 4 points 1 year ago

fedora and void :D fedora mostly because my work uses centos so the muscle memory is already there for almost everything. void because it is cool and fast 💙

[-] floppingfish@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Linux Mint, it just works

[-] alcoholic_chipmunk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Servers: Debian Stable no DE

Desktop: Pop OS or Ubuntu

I've used everything from Arch and Gentoo to fedora and Ubuntu. But I found myself enjoying the stability of Debian but hating the lack of newer packages. The latter of which isnt usually a problem when it comes to single purpose servers.

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[-] 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.

[-] _ice_witch_@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I just recently switched to Arch and I gotta say, the AUR is indispensible! Also really like how fast pacman is.

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[-] furycd001@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I like to keep things somewhat basic so I use Arch btw....

[-] dirac_field@lemmy.one 4 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?

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[-] Jomn@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] hugz@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I distro hop a lot. After using Majaro (gnome) for a long time I switched to Pop_OS for a long time. I switched back to Manjaro (Gnome) again, but after a week of use I've just donloaded Ubuntu.

I'm getting basic display issues that I've never got in another distro (including tails!) and it's generally annoying me. I'd rather use a distro that doesn't require troubleshooting on Day 1

[-] petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Adi2121@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

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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[-] aion@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I've been using Fedora with Cinnamon almost exclusively for more than 10 years.

[-] 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.

[-] grandiosocrown@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] fruitywelsh@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Been really enjoying fedora KDE spins, specifically kinote now, was garuda before that, but fedora has been so stable that I haven't needed to switch. Really tempted to point to ublue and try my hand at really using image based distros more fully.

[-] DennisFaucher@fedia.io 4 points 1 year ago

Pop!_OS on my System76 laptop. Debian|Ubuntu on my VMs. If I add a desktop environment, it's typically KDE. I have a soft spot for XFCE though.

[-] Bretzel@lemmy.world 4 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

[-] 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.

[-] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

openSUSE Tumbleweed with Plasma. It's the perfect combination!

[-] donio@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Been on Gentoo for a long time. My current image has been rolling forward since 2008 which is when I switched to 64 bit but I started using it long before that.

I value transparency, control and customizability. I occasionally look into other options (and use them at work and in other contexts) but haven't yet found a better fit for my personal preferences.

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[-] lynny@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

[-] fernandu00@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Fedora on an old laptop, piOS on a pi2 and Ubuntu on my newer laptop although I'm planning to change it to Fedora too..after 12 years of Ubuntu and 4 release upgrades in a row my system seems kinda broken and my apt is definetly broken with many sources.list entries that didn't upgrade well.. I don't like having dozens of loopback entries when I do a fdisk command ..it's annoying and looks like it's because of snaps ..also I get every day to update something in snap store but it fails every single time ...so maybe I'll go by Fedora next..Planning to use the new Debian Bookworm to set a server with this old desktop I getting from a friend to self host some services

[-] 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.

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

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

[-] hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Mint these days, coming off a several year antiX and MX spell. I switched because I wanted something more pedestrian that would let me run modern diversions without much fuss.

[-] Pyrrhocore@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

I'm using Mageia at home.
I like its stability, and ease to do almost anything with CCM.

Also Raspbian on a raspberry.

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[-] tet42@ka.tet42.org 3 points 1 year ago

Just plain old netinst installed Debian with XFCE. It just works.

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