It has been Fedora since Fedora 9... But after the latest movies from Red Hat I'm no longer so sure. Currently running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
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Right now, it's a tie between Fedora and Ubuntu.
The desktop experience in Fedora is much smoother than ubuntu (faster, and more things work out of the box, like touchpad gestures in Firefox). I've been with ubuntu since... 05.xx release? So it's a bit of fear of changing habit keeping me back. I'm giving ubuntu another shot at 23.10 release and if it dosen't appeal me, I'll change.
But considering that I like the idea of immutable distros, I should learn NixOS. But considering the potential learning curve, I should go with Silverblue or ubuntu core when it's out.
What's holding you back from using Debian instead of Ubuntu? I found Debian to be relatively the same experience as using Ubuntu. NixOS seems interesting, but I honestly need to learn how to use Arch more first.
I've always percieved Debian as a more dull & outdated version of ubuntu. Bear in mind, this is only my perception. I like to have the latest and greatest, I like things working out of the box, I like new technologies such as Wayland and I think debian appeals to the "slow, stable and .conf-only" people.
Though I belive that debian ideals are more in line with mine than a company driven distro such as Ubuntu or Fedora.
Honestly I can say that Debian has improved a lot since then. I was a Ubuntu user for around 2-3 years and thought the same thing about Debian until I realized I was just too lazy to switch haha. I use KDE for my desktop and everything is smooth. No tinkering with .conf files or anything, just install it.
Unfortunately, I use a NVIDIA graphics card and I will say that Wayland and NVIDIA don't seem to mix well. I run X11 instead and it works fine but it is a little slower. Definitely buying a AMD card after my current card meets its EOL.
Either Garuda or Mabox. The next time I do an install, I might just mix and match repos and hope I don't break anything.
Manjaro KDE since 2019
Alpine Linux. I use it on all my computer and servers. I also maintain a few packages for it.
Ever used it on arm devices?
I used it on an Apple M1 Macbook Air 2020. https://arvanta.net/alpine/install-alpine-m1/ It worked mostly ok but I ended up going back to archlinux on that machine because the graphics driver was not packaged for alpine.
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Currently using Manjaro.
Many many years ago when I first started using Linux I tried Ubuntu. It was easy enough for me to learn enough to be able to get stuff done. Dabbled in mint for a while, don't remember why I switched back to Ubuntu.
Not a huge fan of the snap packs and the entire 2022 I had a string of problems with dependencies being out of date on different computers (company server, my own desktop). So I snapped and semi randomly picked a non Ubuntuoid dist that would let me get back to getting stuff done the same afternoon.
The company server and the CFD computer at work still run Ubuntu. They work for now.
I've got two, Arch and Mint. Arch on my main home PC where I spend most of my free time and don't mind the OS being a bit of a hobby, and Mint anywhere I just want something that works.
I want to like Gentoo, but maintaining any software that's outside of the official sources is just too much work even for a hobby computer for me personally, and for some reason I could never get ssd trim working right.
Lately I keep coming back to Garuda Gnome. I would prefer to use KDE, but kde seems to have issues with my setup in different ways in x11 and Wayland. Hoping things are better in KDE 6
Mine was the Fedora KDE spin for a long time, but now I'm honestly not sure. Debian stable and ironically Arch seem to be the only ones that don't have weird quirks that break things these days.
I wanted to like Manjaro, but they seem to fail at basic things like keeping their certificates up to date. I held out hope back in 2004-2009 that Ubuntu would revolutionize things, but they've been way to hung up on reinventing things that weren't invented there (Unity, Mir, and of course Snap). Fedora got worse for me when IBM bought Red Hat, and I feel like its days may be numbered based on IBM's recent behavior. I still have weird problems with DNS lookups on Fedora that don't exist on other distros. OpenSuSE is too dependent on YaST. As for Mint, I don't like Cinnamon and they don't officially support KDE.
And any distro that only officially supports GNOME is a nope from me since I don't like current versions of GNOME at all.
Arch currently. When I came back to linux, I started with Manjaro because I heard it was easier. I had more problems than I would like so gave regular Arch a try and had a significantly vetter experience.
Going to try NixOS out at some point though.
Been using Pop OS on my daily laptop, havenβt been able to make the move yet to my desktop.
Been daily driving NixOS on and off for like 2 years now, its nice with pretty good documentation all things considering. it's a learning curve and a half but it feels nice not having to look up where some random config is
All time favorite is probably gentoo. It has a nice and active community, you learn a lot about the linux kernel, its made out to be much more difficult than it really is. As long as you don't have an ancient computer compilation times arent that bad
Opensuse Tumbleweed
Arch for personal, redhat for work because money.
I might change my mind still since it has been only a few weeks since I switched to it but so far I am really happy with Arch. Been having a lot less issues than with Manjaro which was my go to before.
Ubuntu for servers tho.
Ubuntu for Desktop. Alpine for Server.
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I bounce between Arch and Artic depending on if the device I'm using needs Systemd for something
Depends on the usage. Arch for my main, Fedora for my work computer, Debian for a home server, and RHEL for the servers at work.
I think my favorite is probably Alpine. It's fun to use, it runs really smooth, and I enjoy working out how things work differently to other systems. However, I have kids, so most of the time I have to use something that just does things without a fight, since I don't have time to work out bits and pieces. So for that I use arch.