Asklemmy

I use MacOS and Windows 10 on my PC. Its a hackintosh. I prefer MacOS for general computing and photography editing in Lightroom, but I game on Windows.

Archcraft. It's beautiful.

I main macOS currently. And use KDE Plasma on my Steam Deck and then I have another PC that was a Windows PC that I flashed Pop!_OS on. And I really like it. It definitely feels like a Linux and macOS had a baby. But I am curious about trying a different distro.

I have a decommissioned work PC with Windows for things like MS Access or whatever strange reason I need a Windows-only application.

@tubbadu Linux Mint, everything I need for home is there the ONLY one I miss is amazing Affinity Suite. Incscape just isn't as good (but it's also free). I used to have a complex Excel home account tracking spreadsheet and I miss that too, but other than that nothing!

Debian, windows 10, macos and osx, 9front.

Windows 11. It came with a license, I'm depending on the Adobe Suite and several productivity tools that run trouble free on a Windows machine. My instance has been cleaned up by Windows 10 Debloater and Shutup10. I feel like I need to make excuses for using Windows but when it's set up properly, it is very familiar and intuitive. Plus, whenever you get new equipment or need a niche plugin, you can count on it that they'll have a well maintained Windows application.

I dual boot Windows 10 and EndeavorOS on my PC for gaming and project work respectively.

Windows 10... I have Mint dual booted, but couldn't bother to make video games work on it and have used it maybe a few dozen hours at most. School had some fairly Windows-centric materials as well that made it hard to transfer over.

Linux. Debian.

Is there another possibility, why you ask "and why"?

I use windows 11 on the main PC. Ease of use for everyone in the household plus easy access to mainstream gaming. I use Linux Mint on my personal laptop. I'm not much of a power user these days so Mint has everything I need for my slightly older laptop.

Windows 11 on my work/gaming system, Ubuntu Server on the server that runs PiHole, VPN, and file sharing, MX Linux on my laptop. On my W11 machine I've also got VMware with machines running every version of Windows from 95 through 7, a few different Linux variants for testing, Mac OS, and a few Win10 lab machines for work. Don't get me started on how much I've upgraded this machine since I bought it in 2021!

macOS

I’ve been a Mac user since college. I’ve got a lot of utilities and software that I’m very comfortable with, my brain is mapped to the keyboard shortcuts, and I enjoy the UX. There’ve been a couple bumpy patches in the last twenty years, but never enough to cause me to give up on the platform.

Ubuntu / Kubuntu.

I tried Arch (Manjaro) for a while but was totally lost every time it broke down, which it did a lot. Every update felt like a gamble. The AUR is great but I need more stability.

NixOs so that I can keep my dev environments synchronized, very useful as I work hybrid hours.

Atomic updates and rollbacks, and being able to mix release and unstable packages is also nice.

Before that I used to have a dotfiles/config repo using dotdrop for arch/artix/void, but then realized I was just recreating a crappy version of NixOs/HomeManager.

Fedora, because it's constantly up to date and it f a s t (except when updating)