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Endeavour OS KDE. It just works and you have access to the AUR repository, which is huge.

Linux

I swear that the last time I've ever shouted at a machine was when I was installing the latest release of Windows Server and I was unable to find the most basics elements on their graphic interface. It's like I was a baby in a toypark. And they have the guts to call it a server. I've seen enough dark patterns in their install steps to make any sane person go mad. Windows is leaking bad faith though all his interface. You know what I want to do and you purposefully stop me from doing it. You are not an ally and not even a tool.

I tried Macosx years ago too, but from now on I will only use any reasonable brand of linux.

I’m on MacOS for work, Linux Mint for personal computer.

I’ve been on MacOS all around for over a decade. I found that I liked the mental model better than Windows. I had tried linux at the time (Mandrake and Suse) but they didn’t quite feel like something I could use daily, when friends were on MSN Messenger for comms.

The company uses MacBooks for developers and I enjoy that experience.

For personal, I couldn’t justify the cost of a Mac for the limited amount I’m currently using a personal computer. A year ago I resurrected a computer from a junk drawer and put Mint in it. It’s been a great experience, but the hardware has aged and some things were tricky (like typing, and hearing audio). So I bought a 3-4yo refurb Dell business machine and popped Mint on it. Am happy.

I use Linux Mint. I started using Linux in 2007 and was an Ubuntu guy. When Ubuntu switched to Unity I wasn't a big fan. At the time, Mint was providing an experience fairly close to what I was used to so I gave it a try. It does everything I need so I haven't looked back. I don't tinker as much as I used to and it's very stable.

Also have a windows install I use for gaming and music production, but 95% of the time I'm on mint.

Arch Linux with KDE. Windows is trash.

I use Ubuntu.Two years ago some updates on my Windows 10 machine made my laptop slow. I decided to try linux and I was impressed. Easy to use and install. It's faster and also made my FOSS journey quite easy on the PC.

Mac OS is what I use for everything besides gaming. I do have a Windows PC for gaming, but I am really excited about the future of Linux gaming and am a proud & happy Steam Deck early adopter.

I grew up building my own computers with hand-me-down parts, fighting my sister for the phone line in the dial up days, calling my uncle for a working Windows or Office key, etc. Something broke in me some years back where I want everything to "just work" and that's what Apple products provide.

GNU/Linux (openSUSE Tumbleweed, KDE Neon, Gentoo, Arch/SteamOS on Steam Deck) all with KDE Plasma desktop. Because the KDE Plasma desktop is way ahead of anything I've ever used on proprietary OSes. Also in general GNU/Linux is leading both technically and ethically, as it is also being free (as in freedom) and opensource software, respects our privacy, and doesn't bother you with ads.

MX Linux.

Debian with perks.

At work I use Void Linux since it's great for database/python work. At home I just use Windows because I am too lazy to mess with anything after work haha. Might install Linux at home too again once I have enough time for it.

Linux, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed to be precise. Best rolling release distro in my opinion.

Debian 11

• Main Gaming/Editing PC - Windows 11 - While I have had good experiences with PopOS as a dual boot, I'm probably staying on Windows on this machine to not worry about hardware compatibility. My main issues on Linux distros came to my WiFi 6 USB adapter not being well supported (running an Ethernet drop to this room is infeasible at the moment, but a future plan), power state issues regarding standby mode and shutdown, and the GPU (3060ti) only really working well on PopOS. Davinci Resolve also apparently only works with H.264 or H.265 video codecs on Linux if you get the paid version, probably because of licensing relating to those, which I may get eventually. I also like Windows 11 way more than 10, surprisingly.
• Laptop - Linux Mint - Rock solid when you're just talking about a machine with integrated components. Has Timeshift for system restoring preinstalled, and is light on resources while still fulfilling my needs outside of gaming and video editing. I can still play light games (it's a slower laptop) like Celeste or Vampire Survivors fine though, but really leave that for the main PC.
• Homelab servers - Proxmox running mostly Ubuntu Server VMs and LXC containers - Honestly as with any homelab, this may change just for the sake of testing things, but having this setup on my previous Ryzen 5 1600 desktop, and an HP mini PC works out pretty well. Most of what I test or use is at the service or development level anyway.

NixOS, mostly for the declarative configuration for almost everything. Atomic updates and independent installations of software for different projects are some other notable reasons.

I was running Gentoo Linux, but I've sadly had to switch back to Windows due to grad school software I need to run.

I've been distro hopping lately and landed in fedora gnome, it seems to be a nice, stable OS, good for personal PC use (might try the kde version on my laptop, seems like a better experience). I haven't even checked on gaming tho, haven't touched the pc for that since I got the steam deck

OpenBSD. It is much simpler for me to understand than Linux. However, Alpine Linux is very nice too.

I currently use fedora. I am absolutely fine with Ubuntu, but the setup process is a bit too much for me, as I prefer flatpak and vanilla gnome, so it takes a bit of work for Ubuntu to get there. Also I feel like ubuntu use a different gui for different purpose, it is a bit annoying (for example, there are three app, one update apt, one flatpak, one drivers.) It is not a big deal, but a bit annoying.

Mostly all I need is just a stable os that I can work in, and I don't really want to mess with my os. So I don't choose more cutting-edge/interesting distros like suse, arch, or Nix.

There are also distros like pop and mint, but they don't support gnome well, and I haven't get into the habit of cosmos or cinnamon.

EndeavourOS. It's a variant of Arch, I had hopped around different OS and was on Windows for a bit before switching back to Linux. Ive stuck with Endeavour as it feels quick and nimble but performs great on gaming (better than the native windows install on my PC) and the access to the AUR is a massive perk

Linux Mint!

Fedora with KDE. I ditched Windows about 4 years ago and never looked back. I bounced between a few different distros, but I've been using Fedora in recent months (switched once version 36 was released) and I think I'll stick with it for a while. It's been a great experience and gaming has been pretty painless so far, the only exceptions being games with easy anti-cheat as it doesn't always play nice with Linux users.

Windows 10 and 11, with WSL 2 I get all the benefits of Linux with little drawbacks. I used to use various flavours of Linux for quite some time but I got really tired of maintaining that system so I went back to Windows. Unfortunately Windows "just works" while with Linux every update felt like rolling some dice to see if my system still boots with a GUI the next day. Currently I work 100% remotely, I can not afford to have my PC to just stop working for a day or more. For servers I keep using Linux and it has been rock solid for that. Maybe I will make an another attempt in the future, I have a notebook that I use to try some distros. So far nothing impressed me enough to try to make the switch again.

Kubuntu 23.04 With the panel to the left.

macOS on my laptop, windows on my PC. Also got a few servers running linux though.

Arch Linux for the past 15 years, Ubuntu for 4 years before that and I still use it on my servers but I might switch back to Debian that I used 20 years ago. I'm also using MOROS, a hobby OS I've been working on for the past 2.5 years :)

Fedora 35 or 36. She's a fun one. I've just finished migrating off an old laptop that was running manjaro with i3 (formerly i3gaps) I think my lust for keyboard shortcuts is satiated now lol. I can't wait to find the lemmy equivalent for unixporn.

Debian laptop, NAS and home server, SteamOS on the Deck, and W10 on my gaming PC because VR is still kinda janky with Linux :(

Windows because I am lazy.

I've been using Debian Testing on all my machines the last four-ish years

Edit: I like that Debian is one of the longest running distros, and the basis for many others. I switched away from Ubuntu when I realized it was easier than trying to uninstall all their extra stuff every time I had to upgrade

MX Linux. It is a debian based, but uses custom scripts and programs from Antix and Mepis that make it super lovely to use.

It strips out systemd and does a lot of work to make popular programs usable that requires it.

Yet, I can still boot into it with systemd turned on, which is useful and more necessary than I like, increasingly so.

I think systemd is fine though. Linux is not unix, variation is healthy and despite what people say I always found it solid.

MX uses XFCE, which I love, and the desktop has some really smart defaults like putting the panel on the side instead of top or bottom, which gives back vertical real estate.

EDIT: I also use macOS iOS. My mom is a dedicated Apple user and I inherit her stuff whenever she upgrades, which is less frequently because I convinced her that what she has is basically overkill for her use cases, ans she does not need the newest thing.

Anyways, I love my iPad Pro. I don't care if Apple is evil, I got it for free and I reading PDFs on it is a goddamn pleasure.

The MacBook Air is the perfect laptop. Large laptops are just heavy and makes me not want to take them anywhere. Glad I learned that lesson.

Fedora Linux (KDE spin), and macOS (Hackintosh)

I like macOS quite a lot. It's UNIX and has much of the same tools as Linux, with more polish and commercial support.

I use Linux for gaming, macOS for general use.

I used to have a Windows partition but hardly ever used it. And every time I booted it I remembered why I dislike it so much. Also Windows Update is THE worst OS update solution there is.

If I ever get a better VR headset I might reinstall windows for VR gaming. But until then, don't need it.

Windows 11 with latest updates. I have prioritized to only use open source apps. Purchased the Lenovo Legion 5 during summer 2020, so it's an relatively new laptop. Also have the latest BIOS, as this have made it work more stable overall. But want to return back to Ubuntu LTS. So hopefully various drivers, compatibilities etc with exactly my laptop gets ironed out. Especially the Fn+Q function with 3 CPU power modes. Also the Hybrid GPU function. Please more battery hours!

Observing Ubuntu's coming LTS with full snap, that might be something suitable for my needs. So going to read about it coming months as Canonical posts in their blog. So definitely want to leave the Windows OS/ place. Have caused so many issues for me.

Ubuntu 20.04. My laptop is from 2013 and windows broke itself with an update in 2018 that rendered the computer useless and at 100% disk usage all the time. I already had some experience with dual booting and running Linux on old PC's so I just wiped it and never went back. I really don't miss it aside from excel.

MacOS

I use Arch on my main gaming PC. I did choose to install it a couple years ago based on the chatter and memes around it, but learning to install it taught me a lot about linux and so it just feels like home using it.

I've been running Manjaro for 4 years now, never looked back. I know people have their thoughts on Manjaro, but I haven't had any issues and it comes with some great features out of the box that I'd rather not have to problem solve on another distro. That said, I've been having fun with Endeavor on my extra laptop, it's worked pretty well for me and can see why it has such a thriving community

Windows 10 because I play games. Ubuntu on my laptop where I don't, since its old and Ubuntu runs way better than Windows on it.

I'm back to Windows 10 (now 11) on my main PC since I bought an Xbox and there's hassle-free Cloud gaming, crossplay etc.

When I exclusively played on PC and built the new Machine, I was too cheap to buy a Windows licence. I tried Pop!OS because I like their gaming-focussed apporach. All games that were relevant to me (via Steam, mostly) worked fine.

I've since bought a Steam Deck, so I'm running SteamOS as well.

Currently on my main PC I'm running Windows 10, as a few games I play fairly often aren't supported on Linux. Got a Steam Deck running SteamOS, and an old Macbook running Pop!_OS.

Plan on eventually switching my main rig over to the Linux side, most likely Nobara with KDE.