Asklemmy

Windows on my PC (ugh) and Fedora on my laptop, been thinking of moving the PC to linux mint, but still a bit hesitant.

Linux Mint on my main computer, and I've been using my old laptop for distro hopping but I think I might settle on MX Linux.

OpenSUSE on Desktop, macOS for laptop. I’ve used macOS on portables for years now but only in the last 3ish months have I gone the linux Desktop.

As to the “why” - macOS because it’s polished, tightly integrated with the hardware, the ecosystem works harmoniously, it’s secure and Unix-based (Darwin is the name of the base OS used for both macOS and iOS).

For Desktop - I used Windows pretty much all my life but it’s gradually turned into a bloated advertising and tracking engine. I’m speaking as a home user and a 10+ year IT professional. Linux has come in leaps and bounds and OpenSUSE is an enterprise-grade OS that also happens to run games and other personal things nicely. If I wasn’t using it I’d probably be using Red Hat but I dumped it largely due to their shitty business practices.

Well I currently only have a MacBook so MacOS :p

Void linux with swaywm. Its blazingly fast and I lime to tinker

I adore Linux, but at present, I use Windows 11 on all my devices.

My main PC is primarily for gaming, with an NVIDIA GPU (which whilst much better on Linux now, still isn't perfect), so Windows works better there.

For work, also Windows 11, since I'm a software dev, creating Windows software with .NET, ASP.NET, deploying to Windows machines, IIS, using MS SQL server etc. All in Visual Studio.

The Windows ecosystem just... works better for my use-cases, regardless of how much I do like Linux!

#garudalinux #archlinux , cause I have full control over everything on my system. Everything else gets put in a virtual machine using KVM.

Windows 11

Arch Linux (old laptop) and Windows 10 (on my gaming PC, at least until it reaches end of life, then it's all gonna be linux)

Ubuntu cinnamon on my shared computer. MABOX Linux on my fuck-around Chromebook.

Laptop: popos Reason: 2 hours battery on windows, 8-12 hours on popos due to sleep issues on windows and Nvidia GPU not turning off on windows.

Desktop: Windows, too many apps without relevant replacements.

Servers: Linux or bsd(depending on vm/reason)

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, because it's stable enough while also beign a rolling release distribution. I wanted to remove the hassle of updating debian/ubuntu once in a while to jump through LTS versions.

Windows 10. Why? Because 80% of my creative software doesn't work on Linux and I dislike Apple products.

Fedora with Gnome on my Framework laptop. Before that it was Mac OS X/macOS on a MacBook Pro. And before that a variety of shitty Windows versions on equally shitty equipment.

Linux, usually Arch or Mint

Windows 10 on my main box, Ubuntu on my two media servers and OSX on my laptop

Currently, Ubuntu. I've been flinging back and forth between Debian, Mint and Ubuntu for years.

It works for my goals. I can even play my halb dozen computer games. I don't need to deal with MacOS prices or annoying "must be Apple hardware to run" [I could run a Hackintosh but why?], and I certainly don't want to touch Windows with a 3m pole in my machine.

Fedora and Arch right now. Fedora is what I main and Arch is just for ricing and testing things. Been trying out VanillaOS recently and I really like it. I use Void and Gentoo on occasion when I feel like tinkering.

Windows 11.

I just require Windows for a lot of software. The thing holding me back from switching to a Linux distro, used to be Adobe Premiere and Adobe Photoshop. I have since moved to DaVinci resolve, and I also purchased the Affinity Suite.

Now the problem is that the Affinity Suite doesn't support Linux either..

It's getting exhausting trying to make Linux work for me, and I already have to give up a lot of stuff, and make compromises, so I'm just sticking with Windows.

Windows. I have windows apps that I need to use at work, as well as MS Office functionality that is not well supported on MacOS. So at home I use the same OS, to avoid getting annoyed due to changes in the operating systems. I develop for Linux-based docker containers, though.

Currently trying out NixOS, just switched from Gentoo. Interesting experience so far, will see if the switch will be permanent.

Immutable system, completely separated and well-defined development environments per project, and overall nix is pretty nice.

This week it's arch, though I do dual boot win11 specifically for iracing and iracing alone as that doesn't let me run it under proton.

pop os on my laptop and pc, steam os on my deck. my work laptop uses mac os, and they had me use a w*ndows machine for a while but that's getting shipped back soon.

i'm not really surprised at the demographics here; it does make sense that so many of us would prefer the foss operating systems

Win 10, explicitly because I run CAD software (Autodesk Inventor specifically at home) and the linux compatibility workarounds like wine have not worked properly the last few times I have tried them. I could dual boot but I just don't feel like putting the time in to set it up and use it anymore.

Ubuntu Mate on two main PCs. One running windows ten for TurboTax 😭

Arch because:

• it is the only distro I could install my wifi drivers on when I started with GNU/Linux
• too poor to afford hardware for Gentoo
• bloat = bad
• spyware = bad
• Appl€ & Micro$oft = bad

I'm a programmer and what you'd probably call a computer nerd. I used Windows XP, Vista and 7 until 2016, when I then decided to give Linux (Mint+Cinnamon) a try. Loved it so much, my dual boot days were short and I quickly started using the penguin OS as my sole daily driver. After some very traditional distro hopping, I landed on Manjaro KDE, and have been a happy user for some years.
From an end-user PoV, Manjaro is great because of the frequent rolling-release package updates, nice community support and kernel and driver tools (the mhwd ones), while KDE Plasma is by far my favourite desktop environment, being simple by default but very powerful when needed. GNOME has a more Apple-y look to it, which I know is quite attractive as well, but since I'm more of a power user, KDE stuff is a no-brainer. Other DEs and tilling WMs are also nice, but I'm so happy with KDE I'm not going to switch anytime soon.

Debian and Arch Linux. The Yin and Yang of Linux distros. Debian daily, Arch for occasional gaming