Which distro are you using right now?

Ubuntu with the Window Maker window manager.

arch on my desktop and on my server

EndeavourOS :)

Gentoo.

Gentoo

I tried Gentoo once.........the compiling......so......much........compiling.........my poor distro-tester PC...... :)
- To Gentoo users: what I'm supposed to do about the upgrades of browsers if I don't have a great CPU? Do you install alternative/smaller browser or compile them on night? I feel like there are too many sites that require Firefox/chromium to run functionally, I'm pretty sure Firefox (the only one I tried) accounted for over 1/3 of the compile time with its dependencies.
  
  Maybe there is some setting, preferred hardware, that makes the compiling a bit easier. Outside of NixOS (might want to learn) and Arch (currently using), Gentoo (know how to use but too much compiling made me not install on new PC) is the only distro I'd like to daily drive, so would be cool to get some advice on it.

artix with xfce, i ve used arch with bspwm for a while now i m a simpler man

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Trying out Fedora now, was partial to Pop os, but liking the feel of Fedora!

Been running Void Linux for a few years now and it's very good. I like xbps and the void-packages repo (it's like the AUR but sane).

Fedora 38 KDE Spin. Truly awesome experience!

Main machine thinkpad x60: Trisquel

iBook G4: Debian

thinkpad t450: Linux Mint

on all my other laptops: LXLE

on my old desktop: LXLE

on my main desktop Minisforum UM500: Manjaro (But only because I have no idea how it works and Manjaro came with the UM500 and I'm afraid I can't install something else that will work with all the graphics.)

Well, Slackware of course!

Ubuntu. I started with Mint when I first dropped Windows because it had a similar look. But I found it was harder to find answers to problems I had with Mint than with Ubuntu because more people use it. So I switched to Ubuntu.

Took a while to learn and get all set up but now all my stuff uses NixOS.

Ubuntu Studio (XFCE desktop). It's not the fanciest desktop, has one or two rough edges, and there are one or two tweaks I make right away on any new install, but I can get most things done without thinking about the OS at all now.

I like the UI eye candy of KDE, but I find it too weighty for an everyday use distro.

I used to use Debian plus XFCE, but it's a bit too spartan for me these days.

I tried Ubuntu Studio for a bit for audio work, but it was really slow for some reason. Even the terminal would take 12 seconds to open up. Couldn't find the problem so I switched to OpenSUSE Leap and now it's super responsive.

Unfortunately, it looks like Wwise refuses to install with Wine or Bottles, so I might not be able to use Linux for work.
- Hmm... interesting you mention terminal really slow to open up. I still experience this also - the first time I open a terminal (only), and only if I try to open it shortly after I boot the machine. I've tried several times to find out why this is, but without success (without a terminal it's hard to find out what's blocking the terminal...)
  
  The other thing I dumped was the latest Ubuntu Studio Chromium install, because it installs a snap, which is laggy to fire up, which also drove me crazy. I use the Mint chromium build now, which is a real native build, not a snap, and works great.

Artix with awesomewm and Linux Mint in case something doesn't work on Artix.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE

For how long have you been using it? Have you had any breakages?
- For 3 days lol, no breakages at all. I've switched from arch after using it for several months but now I just want stable enough distro with latest plasma and btrfs snapshots without hassle and decided to give tumbleweed a try.

Tumbleweed with KDE is my favorite flavor. I have all sorts of machines and vm's running which use Debian, Ubuntu, Leap, Rocky, and Alma.

Tumbleweed is my daily driver. Ubuntu and Debian have been my primary vm distro, but Alma and Rocky I've been dabbling with. I use Leap on various apple machines I have as it seems to play nicer with the stupid Broadcom wireless adapters apple uses.

Ubuntu, it just works. Hardly notice any genuine issues with Snaps as well, but I also rarely use them.

Thats a very complicated quesiton. I have 3 computers, of which 2 are ThinkPads, and one Asus Gaming Laptop. The Thinkpads are spread out over the places I usually do stuff, and I have an encrypted portable Sandisk 1TB ssd with Debian installed on it, that i take wherever my thinkpads are to do stuff. My asus gaming laptop runs Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS and i haven't bothered to change it to Debian. I use that one mainly for stable diffusion, voice to text with AI and to play minecraft singleplayer, with shaders.

My thinkpads can work without my portable ssd, and they run unencrypted Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS with basic stuff like firefox and realistic documents and normie stuff, so that it doesn't look suspicious :)

pretty cool :=)

Arch Linux, for many years now. No DE, lightdm for login, i3 for WM, no graphical file manager, Alacritty + zsh w/starship for my terminal emulator, shell, and prompt. I'm extremely comfortable with this setup and have no plans to change it (except for a probable move to sway, once I can finally get a system without an nvidia GPU).

Where my Mint peeps at?

Cinnamon gang!

Arch. I'm thinking about using NixOS too.

Y'all are gonna make me say it, I run Arch BTW. The AUR and wiki are compelling reasons, but the truth is I was interested in being forced to learn how things work on a lower level, and the more I understand the more control I have over how things are done.

Slowly moving to nixos for everything but still have a few laptops on arch. For servers I'm on CentOS for work compat/similarity. And one Ubuntu server for Plex.

EndevourOS. A better just-works Arch based distro than Manjaro. I might switch to Arch

I use Gentoo. We have what's probably the most flexible and powerful package manager for Linux.

Adding new packages is trivial; an ebuild script is created which describes how to build the package, along with a little metadata. This is placed into an ebuild repository - I like to contribute to the Gentoo one, but any folder structure will do (however git is by for the most common method). It's not uncommon for a Gentoo user to package software outside the official repos. These will have all of the features (like configurability via USE flags) that ebuilds in the official repo have.

These repositories, for convenience, may be registered with Gentoo and linked on https://repos.gentoo.org/ where the eselect repository tool can be used to add them by name from the index. http://gpo.zugaina.org/ indexes known ebuild repos and can help you to identify whether or not something has already been packaged.

Nobara 38 - Gnome/Wayland

Interesting, I though Nobara was going to focus on Xorg.
- It ships with both Wayland and Xorg, but Wayland is the default.

I'm on EndeavorOS. It's essentially Arch Linux with very specific training wheels. I switched to it about a year ago and remain exceedingly happy with it.

EndeavourOS is Arch, nicely setup for a "Daily Driver" PC and for people who don't need to flex about installing Arch. I've used Arch, I like EndeavourOS better :)
- Another vouch for EndeavourOS being Arch but with less hassle, I have installed and maintained for years both Arch and Gentoo and while I think those two are the best way to experience and learn Linux, I don't have as much time anymore, so I was trying out fedora for a while (left because some package lagged just a bit much for my preference; Emacs and some compilers/runtimes mainly) I wanted back into some cutting edge rolling-release distro.
  
  I prefer Arch over debian testing and opensuse thumbleweed because of popularity and gaming, there is bigger chance that if a game has problems, these have been found out on arch especially with the steam deck technically increasing the user base of gamers on Arch.
  
  EDIT: NixOS sound interesting because it might be even less time commitment to maintain I think(?), but the initial learning curve would be more time investment that EndeavourOS is since I'm very acquainted with how to upkeep and Arch system that I daily drive.

Ubuntu / PopOS user here.

Someone here mentioned NixOS and it made me want to speak up. I've been thinking of moving to BlendOS or VanillaOS for a while now. I've been using them virtualized and I think I like blendOS more.

With that being said, I'm really intrigued by all those distros picking up the immutable atomic core update model. I want my system to always be up to date but I want it to be stable as well. I feel this is the true power of containers.

My question here is, does anyone use an immutable and atomic distro on their desktop PC like blendOS, VanillaOS, Fedora silver blue, or NixOS?

If so, what is it like?

Note: I know that steamOS, HoloISO, and ChimaeraOS are also immutable and atomic but I don't count those as "desktop" distros. I have been testing ChimeraOS myself on an AMD 5600X3D based platform and aside from Bluetooth latency issues, it's very very nice.

Debian Bookworm.

The purpose of my home computer is to help me work or play games. I don't want to expend effort updating/fixing my computer.

I would use Ubuntu but Snaps is impossible to turn off and they are insanely slow. CentOS/RHEL/Rocky seem to make every package require a full Gnome install and I use KDE. That only leaves OpenSUSE and the multi arch Debian installer makes installing Debian easier than OpenSUSE.

Do people really have this much gripe with the Snaps? I don't even touch them and am only reminded they exist when people complain about them. Is there any actual downside to just ignoring installing Snaps and instead installing packages manually anyways?
- for me it stopped being fun when firefox couldn't access certain OS features or usb keys because they hadn't specifically coded that one in. and I could only wait for a patch.

Arch Linux on Desktop, Endeavour on laptop (because there's no way im installing arch on a laptop), and Raspbian for server.

Endeavour on laptop (because there’s no way im installing arch on a laptop)

Endeavour is Arch :P
- endavour is based on arch, like chromeos is based on gentoo

I Use ~~WiNdOwS~~ Ubuntu. With snaps ~~because I like getting kicked in the balls~~

bro, you're savage 💀

I've started using linux roughly a month ago and I am using Garuda. I'm amazed how easy everthing is. I expected there to be a lot more troubleshooting.

Yeah for me too! I installed ubuntu and it just... worked. The only thing that was annoying was the touchpad scroll speed, which was a bit high (lightning speed), and couldn't be changed in the settings, but I learned a lot more about linux after trouble shooting that. Now im using debian because it is S T A B L E.

Ubuntu Budgie is my main OS. Works well but if I install another I'll give NixOS a spin. I like the idea of generally immutable systems.

ublu also has Budgie rebase for Intel/AMD Can just rebase from a Kinoite/Silverblue/Serica install: rpm-ostree rebase ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/ublue-os/budgie-main:latest

Nvidia: rpm-ostree rebase ostree-unverified-registry:ghcr.io/ublue-os/budgie-nvidia:latest

Or the newer ISO method:

https://github.com/ublue-os/main/releases

Also checkout Fleek:

https://getfleek.dev/

https://github.com/ublue-os/fleek