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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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[–] Marxine@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Fedora, ofc. KDE spin in my case. Stable, up to date, no nonsense and well supported, fits well for both my work and personal needs.

[–] eroc1990@lemmy.parastor.net 2 points 1 year ago

I fall firmly in the Ubuntu/derivative camp for the most part. My laptop is on Pop, some of my virtual servers are on Ubuntu. Only exception is UnRAID, which is technically Slackware.

[–] alsivx@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago

Debian on my gaming desktop and Ubuntu on the family laptop.

[–] 0000@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Arch on my workstation, Ubuntu on my servers.

[–] m105@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] cosmicmold@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I used to use Arch but recently switched to Fedora. I need stability now.

[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

I've felt in love woth Debian the moment I used it for the first time

[–] sedot@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

openSUSE Tumbleweed, it just works for me.

[–] lord_admiral@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago
[–] libertepourmoi@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Arch on desktop and Fedora Silverblue on my laptop. I have a Proxmox server and on this I have VMs with mainly Fedora, Arch and Debian running.

Fedora Kinoite on my desktop with a dualboot to Windows for specific software, mix of Ubuntu server / Debian / Alpine for VM's and LXCs on my servers and I think some distro with Gnome? on my touchscreen laptop that I never use due to better touch support. Really liking Kinoite though, can reccomend

[–] chrundle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ubuntu 23.04 on home media server mini pc and on second laptop. Ended up being the most stable for my use cases and with the most sane defaults, requiring only a couple of extensions. Used Pop_OS! in the past, will switch to their desktop once it's released next year.

[–] carnha@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

I'm using Fedora - was using Arch for a while, but realized I didn't want to put in the work to keep up with/migrate to the newest tech (Wayland, Pipewire) but I also didn't want to fall behind. Fedora has been great at integrating new tech without me needing to pay close attention or migrate to it myself.

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

I use KDE Neon. I was and still am a big fan of arch, and while I appreciate the philosophy behind it, I just didn't feel like setting it all up this time around, KDE Neon had the software I was looking for and just got out of my way (outside of needing to deal with NVidia drivers, which seems like a pain wherever I go, I eternally hope for improvements from Nvidia)

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[–] Quadrexium@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Zorin is nice, it's got a phone app too so you can get your phone notifications on your PC and transfer your clipboards. But Bluetooth doesn't really work on Linux so I still use Windows half the time

[–] Gort@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I started with Mandrake, then Xubuntu 6.06, then moved onto Debian for some years. However, a new laptop got me into trying out Ubuntu again some years ago, just to see how it progressed from 6.06, and I've stuck with it since.

I've got lazy (lazier) over the years. ;-)

[–] tiny@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

A mix of fedora and alma Linux I like all the redhat tools and which one I use depends on if I want new shiny or fewer major upgrades

[–] UnverifiedAPK@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago
[–] alexg_k@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Debian on servers and Arch Linux on clients. No bloat and simple!

[–] afb@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Slackware 15.0 on my desktop, Void on my laptop. I try other stuff on my laptop from time to time (FreeBSD has been my favourite experiment so far, but the wifi and bluetooth are just too bad for me to be able to use it regularly), but always go back to Void. I don't distro-hop on my main machine.

[–] drjkl@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Used to use Ubuntu for almost everything, but I switched to Arch for my desktop a few years ago, and love it. Still use Ubuntu for basically all of my servers (personal and work).

[–] itpcc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Linux Mint. It just works.

(Yes I know. but multiple services I use need Debian-based sadly. I wish to go back to Manjaro/Arch someday.)

[–] faceless@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Arch and fedora

[–] SillyLilJester@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

EndeavourOS. Best distro by a longshot. I used openSUSE Tumbleweed, Fedora, ZorinOS and ofc Ubuntu in the past.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I have two machines for different purposes - the desktop is the one that other people use that I'm not allowed to break, so that one just dual boots Pop!OS and Windows 10.

The laptop is my own tinkering machine, so that one is Arch and KDE, perpetually in various states of disarray.

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