Debian
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Arch with a Sway wm
Fedora. Cause it's the distro of choice of my employer and I'm just lazy.
EndevourOS, running gnome and x11 for better gaming performance.
Arch w/ XFCE
Gentoo on my desktop and laptop. I also have an old thinkpad T41 that runs FreeDOS which isn't linux but is still awesome.
My primary computer: (NOT LINUX) Windows 10, I know, shocking. Laptop for programming: It's an old HP Pavilion from 2015. Linux Mint with i3. ThinkPad for fun stuff: Artix Linux. Big ass Cisco servers in my room: openBSD emulation.
Arch as a daily driver, Debian for my girlfriend and the self hosted stuff, Raspbian for the PiHole
Arch and Debian. In the future Iβll probably move to something without systemd, but for now this is what I use. I donβt understand why so many people use Ubuntu and even fedora now with this REHL controversy. Why would choose to use a corporate distro when others are also just as good? Doesnβt that negate the purpose of using linux and free software in the first place? (This applies to popos, linux mint Ubuntu, and all those other Ubuntu OSes)
when others are just as good
Debian or CentOS. But I do server stuff.
MX Linux. I can customize and use many obsecure programs really easily.
I used to run manjaro, but after some problems I decided to cut the middle man, and jumped to arch.
So now I use arch btw.
Gentoo!
Even started a community with a whopping 16 subscribers and almost no posts! !gentoo@lemm.ee.
Pop_OS on my laptop
Fedora
Debian since '95, (After a try with Slackware and RedHat each for a month or 2-3)
I run testing on my home devices (trixie now). Totally happy with it. (I really don't like the rpm based ones, even more so since IBM bought RedHat) Tried Ubuntu once, didn't know how fast to get back after the 1st major upgrade killed my system years ago.
I used ctwm since '96, switched to xfce4 in '18 (and use it as wm), ctwm is still in use for vnc connections on the rpi.
Debian and Alpine
Alpine for Docker containers and Debian for general putpose and sometimes also for containers.
I'm very happy with Arch. Before that I was using Mint.
Main computer: Arch (BTW) because I am a WM user (awesomewm) and AL has no bloat to remove. Also because of the AUR.
- main server is a gentoo beast. I chose gentoo because systems was actually causing some problems and reporting a "degraded" status. OpenRC is really nice after years of systemd :-)
- second server, used for backups: NixOS, for no particular reason. I might install Debian 12 on it one day.
I am running Ubuntu on my machines and whatever Docker containers if I need some other flavour.
Fedora because they keep the packages updated. I could go with Arch, but the amount of updates per day is too high.
Switched my 15 yo macbook to Xubuntu. Now it works much better than vanilla Ubuntu.
I did the same with manjaro, though I split it so I technically can get back to macos if I really want to. Annoyingly that now means I need to keep an eye on the disk usage.
Arch and it's variants, depending on when I feel like reinstalling again, currently testing the waters with EndeavourOS
Switched my 15 yo macbook to Xubuntu. Now it works much better than vanilla Ubuntu.
I'm boring Af, I use Ubuntu with Mate DE.
I would love to switch to Opensuse Tumbleweed, but I need Ubuntu because of some interactive board drivers that are only available for ubuntu... π
Debian for servers. Darwin for desktop. :)