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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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[–] UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whatever my Steam Deck runs (steamos I think?), fedora 38 kde on my laptop (although I don't use my laptop much), truenas scale for my NAS, proxmox (Debian) for my hypervisor and regular Debian for my vms.

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[–] spyjoshx@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Currently a Fedora guy, and have been for a while. Who knows if that will change tho...

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[–] ober@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

I've been on Linux for around a year now and for most of that I've been on either Arch or Gentoo. On Arch I start to miss the features of Gentoo and it's modularity, so I switch. Then on Gentoo I start to get frustrated from my inexperience and move back to Arch. Then the cycle repeats. Personally though, I like Gentoo better, I just get lazy sometimes and move to Arch.

[–] unix_joe@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

I started in FreeBSD for a decade, and then went to Arch Linux for a couple of years.

I went to OpenBSD for another decade, and then I suddenly needed Linux for specific software, and chose openSUSE Tumbleweed based on technical merit.

I ended up ditching Tumbleweed earlier this year, and now I run Debian bookworm.

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

fedora all the way babyyy

[–] sws@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Archlinux on all desktops and laptops, Debian on all raspis, FreeBSD on the firewall (pfsense).

[–] gringrant@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Android! What it technically uses the Linux kernel...

[–] 7ai@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nixos since 3-4 years. Arch Linux before that.

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[–] lemmyng@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Server: Ubuntu at work (previously CentOS), Debian at home. Toying with the idea to switch the home server to NixOS, given that all the services I run there are already configured declaratively.

Desktop: Ubuntu mainly due to inertia from back in the day when it was the simplest way to get Steam and ZFS support, but my loathing of snaps increases every day and I would be willing to consider alternatives if I had to reinstall. I don't care for rolling release as long as I have flatpaks. An install option with LVM is a must for me, however.

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

Been using PopOS for my living room AMD GPU pc, and it’s been the most seamless steam machine experience I’ve had so far. Tried multiple distros on my Nvidia one, and I just had no luck, I’ll move my Nvidia pc into Linux soon for another attempt.

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

Fedora Silverblue (I made the final switch from Tumbleweed when I discovered that flatpak mpv also has vaapi and the steam and lutris flatpaks work flawlessly)

[–] emr@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Lubuntu. I loved Crunchbang back in the day.

[–] screx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Moved from Arch to Nix and loving it!

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

I am using Pop!_OS, but probably want to change to something leaner soon.

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

Used to distrohopp a lot but now i have used EndeavourOS for a year and it's perfect for me. Basically Arch but a little more stable and faster to install

[–] hamborgr@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Artix for my desktop and Alpine for my pi. I like my minimalism and hate systemd with a passion.

[–] djoot@feddit.dk 1 points 1 year ago

I use a mix of Fedora and endeavour, love fedora to bits, but I had some issues that were solved by using endeavour

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

Currently using Mint, once I get a new laptop though, I'll likely switch back to Debain.

[–] TimekillerTK@lemmyrs.org 1 points 1 year ago

I used Manjaro in the past, now I use EndeavourOS and loving it.

[–] Irisos@lemmy.umainfo.live 1 points 1 year ago

(Servers only)

  • Rocky Linux 9 by default
  • If something is not supported on Rocky Linux 9, I revert to Centos 7
  • Debian as a last choice if what I'm using does not support RHEL for any reason
[–] marcus@posta.no 1 points 1 year ago

I've used pretty much all the things, from slackware and debian to redhat and arch and even various BSDs, but these days it's mostly nixos that makes me happy. High initial investment, but so worth it in the end.

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

Was an Arch user for a long time, last few months I've made the switch to nixos, whilst I'm still experimenting I am enjoying it so far, still a lot to learn though.

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

I was a longtime Arch user 10+ years up until recently when I decided to give Void Linux a shot. In hindsight I wish that I'd made the switch earlier as I love it !

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

Nobara Official, I pretty much only game on my pc and have had no issues with Nobara.

[–] cambionn@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

Been using Manjaro as my daily driver for ages. Tried a few others over the years but never found them comparably nice to use. Works out of the box, performs well incl in games, rolling release yet never had much stability issues, and access to the AUR.

That is, for my laptop and desktop ofc. Servers I wouldn't run on it, at least no serious production ones. Not too important home servers maybe out of lazyness (I know this well, so easier to get stuff done).

[–] bootyberrypancakes@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right now, endeavourOS and XFCE on my desktop, Unraid on my server.

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

Debian on everything. Steamos on (arch or manjaro under the hood). A couple of rasbian instances and Ubuntu for work.

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

Archlinux user for ~13 years, I'm now on Fedora Kinoite.

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