5mo ago

What os do you use on your pc?

just wondering

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Arch, btw

I use Arch btw.

On Lemmy most will say Linux.
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed in my case.
- On Lemmy most will say Linux.
  Ik i dont wanna go back to reddit so yeah
- Well, looking at the comments I'm not so sure about that anymore... more like Linux as well.
  
  4 or 5 Windows users and I think none exclusively. Guess they were among the first, because now there are at least 10 Linux exclusives.
- me too. tumbleweed is great
- Same. It just keeps chugging along whatever I throw at it, so I stick with it.
  I'm waiting to see what my main machine will do when I'll finally get to bring it back online and it finds it has 1 1/2 or 2 years of updates to install though 🤔.
  
  Make sure you update the mirror list and repository keys first, then read Arch news and do whatever they say needs manual intervention since your last update. Then you can update everything from the core repo and finally the AUR. Don't reboot until you're done with all the steps.
  Also might be a good idea to read through https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_maintenance for additional considerations.

Windows 11
I'm one of the few people who genuinely thinks it's a good OS despite MS' shenanigans
- Blocked and reported /s
- I just get bothered that even on very modern tech my CPU is under load even when idle in Win11 such that the fan is spooling up. I'm convinced they're sneaking distributed AI compute into personal PCs. Doesn't happen on my Linux install.
  
  That Bitcoin ain't gonna mine itself
- Clearly a bot.
  Move along humans, no brain to engage with here. Let them sit in their ignorance while the real people get on with things.

Manjaro Linux. It has treated me well for two years. (Yes, I know about the controversy, I have had no problems with the distro for the last two years).
- Same here, sometimes I feel actual shame, which is ridiculous, but it works for me and hasn't let me down so far in the past years
  
  I have used Manjaro at work and on personal devices for maybe 10 years and it has served me well. When I got a new computer this year, I saw many recommending EndeavourOS instead, so I decided to use that instead. I don't understand the controversy to be honest ... endeavour is a-ok, but Manjaro was more stable imho, and if I have to do it again I might go back to Manjaro.

TempleOS
- LOL

I use arch btw.
- manaro chan pfp lol
  
  you're the first one to notice it lol

Everything runs Debian

Pop!_os

Fedora
- same

EndeavourOS at home, Ubuntu at work

itt: the question linux users love
- ngl i wonder what is the popular os

Linux mint
- Same

I use Windows 3.1
Because of the limitations, I hired someone to create a program that yells letters and characters individually one by one on a text based browser.
It may sound tedious but I refuse to upgrade explanation mark explanation mark explanation mark
- bruhhh

Arch btw

Debian. I distro-hopped a lot but I always return to it. It's like a kit you can turn into anything you want. As stable, bleeding edge, minimal or full-featured as you want, for all kinds of devices, with great third-party support and documentation.
Currently I run a minimal, stable Gnome system with a newer kernel from backports and Flatpaks for my apps.
The only thing it isn't good at is immutability and filesystem snapshots. Both are possible to set up, but it's an involved process, and I'd rather depend on regular backups.
- The only thing it isn't good at is immutability and filesystem snapshots. Both are possible to set up, but it's an involved process, and I'd rather depend on regular backups.
  Is it? I guess you need mutable + persistant mount for /var and one for /home. /tmp is already tmpfs by default. All you then have to do is make the other mount points ro in your fstab.
  
  And how do you then run apt upgrade?
  (The answer is to write a script that mounts / rw, runs the upgrade, then mounts it ro again. But figuring out the edge cases isn't something I want to get into.)

Ubuntu at work, Mint on my laptop, Win10 and Debian on my pc. I need to upgrade to Win11 at some point but I guess I'll wait until next year for that.

The holy OS...TempleOS.
- real

So, a bit of a list...
Personal desktop: endeavour, though I may go back to Debian. I've been using Debian for so long that nothing else feels right, that's a me thing. Endeavour is pretty great.
Work laptop: Windows 11 (stripped down since I have admin rights), unavoidable do to some software I need to run sometimes.
Testing/builds for iOS: M2 Mac Mini
Servers: proxmox, running windows VMs for software I need for work I can rdp into, various Debian LXC's, some Oracle, RHEL, and Debian for work stuff, and occasionally random distros I want to check out.
Edit: Forgot one unique, a 13ish year old Mac mini I picked up for free (bound for recycling) that's just a glorified way to run gcompris for my kids. Straight Debian stable.
- My setup is pretty much the same as yours, only I use Linux mint for my daily runner laptop.
  I am definitely thinking it's about time for a change though so I might give endeavor a try.
  
  It's been overall positive, I like it, honestly my main reason to go back to Debian is it's like second nature to me. I've literally had Debian somewhere in my setup since the late 90s, probably around 2.1 I'd say.
  Overall Endeavour feels like a great daily driver, I just can't tell you how many times I've had to stop myself as I typed in 'apt' or 'dpkg'.
  Definitely a distribution worth checking out though!
- sounds fire tbh

Yet another Arch, btw.

At the risk of sounding like a meme... Arch on my desktop and laptop, Windows 11 on my home server/PC I play games with anti-Linux anticheat.
- Destiny?
  
  No, until recently I had been using a VM with GPU passthrough for that, but my power supply is losing its efficiency and isn't capable of keeping up with two video cards anymore, so for now, it's retired.
  I have a 3rd desktop I'm gonna set up for gaming soon so I can replace the Windows 11 with some flavor of Linux better suited to what I'm doing with the server.
- yeah same but not always i play some anti cheat games

Win 11 because I'm too lazy to migrate to Mint.
My plan is to switch on the next upgrade at the latest, but that might be a few years.
- Win 10 because I'm stuck in my ways

Work PC: Windows 11 (because that’s what was issued to me).
Home media / automation server: Ubuntu (latest stable distro).
Personal laptop: Mac OS Sonoma (I’ve always used Mac for personal computing. It’s comfortable).

Pop! It's treated me well for over a year now.
- Same. Well almost. I haven't been switched for a year yet. I think I started to with this build (new machine has never seen Windows) back in October and got a snag that I didn't have time to deal with for a while.
  I finally finished it up sometime after the new year started, but can't remember when exactly. Either January or February.

Fedora Linux Workstation.
It’s great for almost everything. The only thing I’m not super happy with is the file manager, Nautilus. Its WebDAV support is too buggy.
- I installed cinnamon desktop environment. I think it's a fork of gnome.
- The only issue is gnome i dont rlly like the macos style
  
  You can install tweaks like dash to panel which makes it closer to windows. I do this on my PC. On laptop I use the default with gestures.

I use openSUSE as a system and then your usual programs like firefox, steam, vlc, strawberry, discord (sadly), freetube, etc.
- I use discord to i need it to talk to my friends
  
  Exactly. I'd prefer to switch to something else like Matrix or something like that, but there's no way to convince everyone here to do so...

ElementaryOS

OpenSUSE on my desktop, Fedora Silverblue and OpenBSD on my laptop

Linux Mint 21 LMDE on both personal and work laptop.
- How are you finding LMDE compared to base?
  
  Pretty nice. More Debian, less Mint

OpenSUSE

I use NixOS btw
- Same, had to scroll too far to see another nixos user

Mint for my PC and Windows reluctantly for my work PC.

Fedora

Ubuntu on my gaming rig and MacOS on my laptop.

NixOS

Fedora Kinoite

Mint

Manjaro on my gaming PC, Xubuntu on a couple of lab PCs, Haiku on a very old PC, windows 11 at work with Xubuntu on a VM.

Fedora Plasma Spin on my gaming rig. Wife’s laptop is MacOS. Used to run EndeavourOS, and I mostly loved it, but I trust the security and stability of Fedora a bit more after some experience with an Arch base.

Desktop: pop!_os
Laptop: linux mint lmde6

Pop on my desktop, Arch on my laptop, Debian on my really old laptop
Edit: Commodore in the sheets
- Gordon freeman pfp based

Fedora 40 KDE
Edit: fixed version, added DE
- beta?
  
  Whoops

EndeavourOS

Ubuntu 2204 with normal Gnome on a Thinkpad T14, used for both work and personal stuff. Been eyeing Fedora Silverblue for a while…
For gaming I use GeforceNow on that same laptop.
- Ubuntu 2204
  OMG! What's it like‽ Did Linux become a mainstream desktop by then?
  How'd you smuggle it back in time? And no: It doesn't surprise me in the slightest that Linux maintained backwards compatibility for the ancient hardware we're all running for that long 👍
  
  Dude I love you. ❤️
  I used ChronoBox, a deravitive of https://distrobox.it/ to scp the source back to 2024.
  And yes, we’re pretty sure 2204 is the gonna be the year of linux desktop!!!

MX Linux, since ~8 years

Windows 10 for now. When they EoL it I'll switch to a Linux distro. Not sure what yet. I really like PopOS on my Surface because the gnome interface works well, but I think I'll go with something built with KDE for my desktop
- you want a easy to use distro or a distro that requires some tinkering to get stuff working
  
  Tbh I prefer something easy because I'm lazy, but I'm perfectly comfortable with something that requires tinkering. Had to do plenty of that on my Proxmox homelab
- I'm in the same boat as you. Don't like where Windows is going so I'm going to try to switch before 11 gets forced on me.
  I've got Fedora KDE Spin on a mini PC that I am trying to use as a workstation while my main Win10 PC handles gaming. I have a Steam Deck so I know I can do a large majority of my games on Linux, but I'll probably have to figure out a dual boot or virtualized thing of some sort for the titles that don't.
  I've got a few years to figure it out before Win10 stops getting security updates.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed!

Linux or ChromeOS most often. I keep one older windows 10 laptop around for specific software that won't run on anything else. I don't have to use it very often these days but when I do need it it's always for something important that can't run on any other OS.
I moved my parents to ChromeOS a couple of years ago, I use Linux on my work laptop and on my personal laptop as well.

Pop_OS for the main PC, Ubuntu for the laptop and Debian for all the servers (lots of pis). There are 2 PCs left that run windows 10, one is the media rig and the other was an AMD APU that lived in a briefcase as part of a "totally not laptop" thing I built. Its a slow process to fully migrate away from windows, but so far im managing.
- "Totally not a laptop" haha, nice. You should make a post about it somewhere - with pics.
  
  Apologies, I took it apart a few weeks ago as its bits were needed elsewhere, but I can paint a picture. You know those fancy Pelican cases, this was a DIY version of that. It was a cheap silver plastic briefcase with nerdy Linux themed stickers on the back (If it didnt have those on it would look like a nuclear football and freak someone out #ominousbriefcase) I 3D printed some standoffs and mounts for the components, fitted a 22-inch Dell monitor into the lid, used velcro to attach the printed parts and drilled a 2-inch hole in the left side which had a PVC pipe/cap end jammed in the socket to allow a surge supressor to hang out of the case.
  The intent was to use it as a recording rig for my local hobby shop so I could record table top games (40K, Warmachine, Battletech, etc.) using OBS to manage cameras. It could handle 4 webcams (2 tripods, 1 ceiling mount, 1 dice cam) and a pair of lav mics. I haden't used it in about a year, but there were plans to upgrade it as there is need for it again. Its all functionally being replaced by an ATEM mini-Pro and a smaller actual laptop. Unfortunatly I have very little to show for all the nonsense as the guy on the project who was supposed to be the editor never really got around to producing something with the recordings I provided, really I just like playing with the hardware, and this season im going to do the editing myself.
- yeah same

My daily rn is a laptop running Win 10.
I have the parts for a new rig, I'm thinking of running Mint on that.

Seven systems in my house -
3 Windows 10 - One my gaming/workstation rig, my living room HTPC, and a Dell XPS 13 1 Ubuntu - Rig I cobbled together from older parts for player 2. 2 SteamOS - They're Steam Decks after all... 1 Windows 11 - Work computer. I use the XPS if I can avoid it.

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