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Gentoo on my desktop and laptop. I also have an old thinkpad T41 that runs FreeDOS which isn't linux but is still awesome.
I'm a Trisquel user. Though, I'm thinking of moving to Guix.
Arch w/ XFCE
Arch linux.
I've always been more of a "jump into the deep end and learn then learn to swim", so when I originally was looking at trying Linux, I was searching for the most non-user friendly distro (and at the time, the most popular opinion online for that was Arch). So that was my first distro.
Over the years, I've tried Gentoo and Void as well. But I've always been coming back to Arch.
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)
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.
Fedora ofc
Debian or CentOS. But I do server stuff.
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
Fedora for me, what I started on. Want to try Slackware though.
Is Slackware still active?
I started with it in the late 90s and tried to keep using it for a long time, but I got tired of dealing with dependencies. Eventually I switched to Kubuntu on my desktop and laptop, and Debian for my server. They may have added dependency checking since I gave up on it though. It has been a few years.
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.
MX Linux. I can customize and use many obsecure programs really easily.
Debian for servers. Darwin for desktop. :)
I am running Ubuntu on my machines and whatever Docker containers if I need some other flavour.
Gentoo!
Even started a community with a whopping 16 subscribers and almost no posts! !gentoo@lemm.ee.
Fedora
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'm very happy with Arch. Before that I was using Mint.
Arch as a daily driver, Debian for my girlfriend and the self hosted stuff, Raspbian for the PiHole
Pop_OS on my laptop
Arch BTW for my personal machine and Debian for my server
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.
Switched my 15 yo macbook to Xubuntu. Now it works much better than vanilla Ubuntu.
NixOS on two boxes (starting to deep dive big into flakes to try to automate how the separate devices are configured and apps installed, itβs pretty slick if you ever need to reload the PCs). I have endeavorOS for an AI test box since it was easier to get an arch based distro to work with the complicated install chain of Cuda and Python dependency hell. I have Fedora on an PC my wife uses with Budgie. I have a Debian box for my 3d printer controlling. I may move something back to Solus once they release their new ISO, I miss it. Iβd probably end up installing nixpkgs on it so I donβt loose too much functionality/package availability.
Debian and Alpine
Alpine for Docker containers and Debian for general putpose and sometimes also for containers.
I used arch btw, now I use NixOS btw
Fedora because they keep the packages updated. I could go with Arch, but the amount of updates per day is too high.
I am using Rocky Linux 9 on my home PC and Ubuntu 22.04 Server on my VPS.