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Been using Manjaro as my daily driver for ages. Tried a few others over the years but never found them comparably nice to use. Works out of the box, performs well incl in games, rolling release yet never had much stability issues, and access to the AUR.
That is, for my laptop and desktop ofc. Servers I wouldn't run on it, at least no serious production ones. Not too important home servers maybe out of lazyness (I know this well, so easier to get stuff done).
Debian on everything. Steamos on deck (arch or manjaro under the hood). A couple of rasbian instances and Ubuntu for work.
Rocky linux minimal.. mostly for servers..
Been using PopOS for my living room AMD GPU pc, and it’s been the most seamless steam machine experience I’ve had so far. Tried multiple distros on my Nvidia one, and I just had no luck, I’ll move my Nvidia pc into Linux soon for another attempt.
Fedora on everything. Gets shit done, and plays my video games. Packages are new enough that I know I'll have compatibility with things that I want to do, too.
Debian 12 for now is a great investment for the next 5 years, tho.
I use Debian for my docker servers. I try to use it on the desktop. Was using pop-os, games kept crashing, replace with arch? Archinstall wouldn’t work. Back to windows I guess. Maybe I should try Debian on the desktop since it’s the only one I ever get working properly.
Arch on desktop and Fedora Silverblue on my laptop. I have a Proxmox server and on this I have VMs with mainly Fedora, Arch and Debian running.
Although I'm using Fedora, I also make extensive use of Distrobox (specifically, with Arch and Debian Sid containers). Makes it easy to install software not easily available on Fedora, or when I want a version of a program from a different distro.
Debian on servers and Arch Linux on clients. No bloat and simple!
Manjaro on my Gaming rig, AntiX on my laptops. Some other laptops use BSD distros. I'll switch to o Arch olonnmy Gaming rig soon as manjaro is way too unstable and the drivers for my new GPU don't work.
Nobara Official, I pretty much only game on my pc and have had no issues with Nobara.
Slackware 15.0 on my desktop, Void on my laptop. I try other stuff on my laptop from time to time (FreeBSD has been my favourite experiment so far, but the wifi and bluetooth are just too bad for me to be able to use it regularly), but always go back to Void. I don't distro-hop on my main machine.
I have openSuse Tumbleweed on my desktop and Ubuntu 22.04 on a laptop which I use as a server... But which has become my temporary, primary machine, as my desktop is down with a dead psu ATM...
(Servers only)
Linux Mint. It just works.
(Yes I know. but multiple services I use need Debian-based sadly. I wish to go back to Manjaro/Arch someday.)
Artix for my desktop and Alpine for my pi. I like my minimalism and hate systemd with a passion.
I really like Endeavor OS. I think it's a great mix of ease of installation whilst still remaining close to Arch. I used to use Manjaro but I'm moving machines away from that as I need to rebuild them.
Exactly where I'm at as well. Maybe I'll move to Arch proper down the line, but I see no real advantage with that, for me anyway.
I was using PopOS as my daily for a year or so, but recently swapped to Mint again. I've been using Mint on/off for a really long time, and always seem to gravitate back.
Oracle Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Rocky for work Ubuntu for desktop Raspberry Pi OS
Fedora Silverblue
I'm a basic bitch. Ubuntu LTS. Just works, no hassle, lots of support.
I'm currently dualbooting Gentoo (w/ AwesomeWM) and Fedora Silverblue.
Gentoo started as a challenge to myself, but I really fell in love with the customization and portage is an amazing package manager.
Silverblue, was a similar challenge to push myself to try something different. Still trying to wrap my head around containers and working around the limitations of flatpaks, but I'm enjoying it.
I find myself switching between the two on a regular basis. A couple of days to a week in one before switching back to the other.
Moved from Arch to Nix and loving it!
What do you most like? Thoughts on why others should give it a shot?
Gentoo on most of my machines, CentOS on an internet connected server.
Recently switched from Fedora to Manjaro.
Unfortunately I found Fedora to be too unstable for daily use. Just too many issues, some (like shim-x64 versions after 15-8 not being able to boot my system) which just didn't get fixed. And every new major version had its own new set of issues. So after seeing the umpteenth attempt to automatically install a firmware update fail due to shim-x64 being too old and the gazillionth window manager crash wiping all my open applications I bit the bullet and migrated away.
So far no major issues with Manjaro, one of the things that did work excellent on Fedora was Wireplumber automatically switching Bluetooth profiles when I connected to a online call. That seems to be a bit more unstable in Manjaro and often requires manually changing to the correct one. But I don't attend enough meetings for that really to become a major issue for me.
I am using Pop!_OS, but probably want to change to something leaner soon.
I just put Ubuntu on my gaming computer a month ago. it's my first time trying Linux and so far I'm enjoying it a lot. the first couple weeks were hard when I was trying to handle the weird things in my setup that didn't work right away, but now that most things are set up I can't imagine ever switching back to windows. Even just using plasma I stead of gnome feels a little weird now, like it's too windows-y lol
Even just using plasma I stead of gnome feels a little weird now, like it’s too windows-y lol
Out of the box it is, but KDE is very customizable, much more than Windows. You can make it behave like almost any other desktop environment.
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. It works, nuff said.
I used Arch for a few years before that and got tired of dealing with Nvidia drivers. OpenSUSE has BTRFS snapshots out of the box, so if anything gets borked, I can quality roll it back. Before that was Fedora and Ubuntu.
As long as OpenSUSE keeps working, I'll probably stay.
I've used pretty much all the things, from slackware and debian to redhat and arch and even various BSDs, but these days it's mostly nixos that makes me happy. High initial investment, but so worth it in the end.
I'm a relative Linux noob so I've got a couple machines with Ubuntu, an old laptop with cinnamon, and an orangepi with the specific Ubuntu image for that.
Manjaro on my PC and Fedora on my laptop. SteamOS on deck.
Ubuntu 23.04 on home media server mini pc and on second laptop. Ended up being the most stable for my use cases and with the most sane defaults, requiring only a couple of extensions. Used Pop_OS! in the past, will switch to their desktop once it's released next year.