Asklemmy @lemmy.ml

2y ago

To fellow penguins, What is your distro?

This may start a war in the replies, but let's see!

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I use Arch btw.
- "He said the line!"
- Honestly it's just so good. The installation was a heck of a process the first time but it taught me so much, and no other distro I've tried has just worked like this across all my hardware.
- Yes, of course you do :) And next week, you'll be using NixOS :)
  
  What is the fuss about nixos?

Linux Mint, the vanilla distro with chocolate.
- Mint user checking in. It's easy to use and I like Cinnamon. Only complaint is the lack of Wayland support.

PopOS. I love it.
- Also a fan
- Agree, the hybrid graphics are amazing but i don't really like the software center)
  
  Yeah, pop shop is just a pain. It's why I started learning how to use the command line.

Debian always
- I recently switched from Arch to Debian. So far am happy with my choice. I had used arch for about 4 years beforehand but I eventually had enough of flaky AUR packages and decided to just build what I need by hand.
- My man.

I am using NixOS but it's... difficult.
- I was considering giving NixOS a go. What are you finding difficult about it?
- I'm using Arch (btw) but I'm running NixOS in a VM to play around & learn it. It's kind of wild, it's not like any way I'm used to thinking about an OS at all, so I'm still wrapping my head around it. Super interesting though!
- How so? I've always been interested in trying that one.

See my instance name.

Pop!_OS

Tumbleweed

Vanilla Arch and Endeavour OS. Also looking at trying out Nix OS since I'm pretty curious.

Simple: Arch for desktops and Debian for servers.
- This is it. This is the way.
- Arch
  Which tiling window manager? I want to switch to something else, been using i3wm for a long time.
  
  Most of the time I’m just using Plasma 5. But I had some great time with sway.
  
  Try AwesomeWM. Or if you are determined to have a tiling only then QTile is good.

Arch btw

Fedora KDE spin. I dunno how to feel about the recent announcement but from what I know, it shouldn't affect Fedora itself.

This may be an unpopular opinion, but for anything that doesn't require a GUI, Ubuntu Server is my go-to. If I need a GUI, then it's Windows. I've tried Linux on desktop dozens of times in the last 25 years or so, and there's always something lacking. Most recently, RTX support in Steam. Meanwhile, I have Ubuntu servers with > 1 year of uptime, and it would have been more if not for an UPS failure. Right tool for the job IMO.
- 100th comment! tbh, i totally get this. using the command line is much easier and a lot less "restricting" quote unquote than using GUI tools.

Pop!_OS is what I keep falling back to. It helps that I use a System76 Thelio and a HP Dev One.
- Same. I wait patiently for cosmic because I've gotten use to the keyboard navigation. And I've used Debian-based distros for 20+ years and it feels like home.

I’ve been using Void as my daily driver on my desktop for about six years now, I can see myself ever switching. Also have used Solus, Arch, Endeavour, and OpenSuSe on my laptop during that time, which have all been good. But I still prefer Void, it just feels so natural to me now.
- Void is just Arch but better.

EndeavourOS KDE on my laptop, Arch with KDE on my PC, and AlmaLinux 9.2 on my homeserver. Have used Xubuntu, Ubuntu, Fedora, Manjaro, and Mint in the past.

Started out using Ubuntu since 6.06, tried out elementary OS for a bit, went back to using vanilla Gnome on ubuntu and have switched over to Fedora a couple of years ago

Xubuntu - back from the days with a slightly slower laptop.

Tumbleweed
- Ah, an OpenSuse user!
  
  Really underrated distro. It’s even very good for beginners.

btw, I use Arch

Debian is my true love.

I am a penguin, quack quack. What is a distro? Is that a type of fish?

Currently Endeavour OS, but I mainly daily drive Fedora, because its the right mix between bleeding edge and stable (stableedge?) for me.

Started using Ubuntu almost a decade ago, never felt the need to switch since then.

Void Linux at work, Hanna Montana Linux at home.
- Isn't HML a meme distro?
  
  It's still usable

Sparky, Manjaro, Ubuntu or Debian testing, depending.

Gaming/personal project development gets done on my steam deck running Arch, work computer is Ubuntu.
Home lab virtual servers are all Ubuntu, I have some rasbian pis lying around, and whatever Proxmox uses for my three physical home lab servers.
I'm debating moving over to either Arch or straight Debian for my work computer, but I would have to basically lose a day repaving - so I'll probably wait for my next scheduled refresh to try Debian/Arch.
- Do you ever find yourself getting mixed up on the commands that you need on Arch vs Ubuntu, for example around updating packages?
  
  Sometimes, but I really try to manage both systems with respective Ansible playbooks.
  Between that and zsh/oh-my-zsh command history is super easy to navigate to do what I need.

Mint on my media box. Still Windows on my daily driver, mainly for gaming. I did try Mint for it and while I did like it, I couldn’t make the full switch.

Kubuntu 22.04.
- I love Kubuntu. I have had to go back to Windows for some very specific gaming situations, but once Linux gets more support and drivers I will switch right back.

Puppy Linux on my already-not-fast-2011 laptop. Many thanks to the Devs on keeping my machine alive! True miracle makers!

When I came back to Linux in 2020 as a non-technical user, I got recommended Manjaro by a friend. But I found it has issues and when I reinstalled I just went to Arch directly. I found it not that hard to install and use and it really serves me well. So I've stuck with it.

Wow, People are replying! That usually dosent happen on a first post...
- You can't just make this post and not add your answer...
- Welcome to lemmy :D
  
  Thanks! I know the api madness is probably over by now (I am seeing most of reddit going back to full working order),
  but i made this account when it wasn't, so why not use it?

Manjaro

Ubuntu with i3

I run about an equal number of Slackware and FreeBSD boxen.

Hobby: Arch Work: Fedora and RHEL
Im starting to lean towards Fedora, but this RHEL news is very concerning.

Arch Linux. Installed it 4 years ago and haven't had any issues. I tried several other distro's prior but there always seemed to be some annoying bug that would make me look elsewhere.

I've settled on Manjaro with KDE on my current laptop. On my next one, I'll probably move to plain Arch. Alpine is quite cool as well.

Steam os if this counts
- The games are running smoothly? Even the heavy ones?

EndeavourOS, but only since a month ago or so. I used OpenSUSE Tumbleweed before that for over a year.

Ubuntu Server for my home-lab. Fedora for my workstation (dual-booted with Windows, as work requires Windows or Mac, and Microsoft Flight Simulator only runs on Windows.
We should definitely not war on this - all linux is good linux.

Mint!

garuda. arch based and beautiful. uses the regular arch repo, plus their own custom one.

you guys are not distrohopping every day?!?

Gentoo on my desktop and Mint on my work laptop. At work I just need everything to work, so I don't want to have to deal with some build related issues.

Ubuntu studio for it's real time kernel and music software. Connecting a MIDI controller is a pain and I only ever did music stuff few times with it. Now I use it for anything but music.
My other computer has just plain ubuntu.

Xubuntu 22.04.

Using Fedora 38 right now. Good stuff

Favorite? Arch. However I am using Ubuntu on all my server systems. Currently don’t have any desktop Linux systems.

As a long term windows users, I recently switched to kubuntu and I’m loving the kde plasma desktop. I like the look and feel of windows but not the telemetry so kubuntu really is the best of both for me.

Arch with a Sway wm

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