Linux

Mint on my main daily driver because I need the stability for work, and don't need bleeding edge for common work stuff. MX Linux KDE on my Thinkpad because KDE plays extremely well with external screens, and I need to plug it in to a lot of different foreign monitors/projectors during a normal work week.

I've used Fedora as my main OS for the past 6-7 years, and before that I was running openSuse Tumbleweed. And before that I ran Arch (btw) for 12-13 years.. And so on.

Now I moved to Fedora Kinoite, an atomic distro with KDE Plasma, just to see how it is and get a feel of it.

And I'm thinking of going back to openSuse.

Linux user since 1998 or 99. Debian-Testing for my desktops, Mint for my laptops. I like things that work well with a GUI (I dislike the terminal, despite being well familiar with it), without bad surprises (Debian-Testing is surprisingly stable).

Have I been on 10 years? I dunno, but I like to think I'm pretty experienced for an amateur.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed! It rolls! It games! It works with newer hardware and gets along sorta reasonably with Nvidia!

Best part? If any of that ISN'T true (rarely after an update), it seamlessly integrates BTRFS snapshots with the boot menu, to just roll back and wait like a week til the wonderful souls working on it, fix stuff.

The community is also very supportive.

Gentoo since 2004.

I used a lot over the last 25 years of Linux, started with Debian, Suse Linux, then some years with Gentoo (i learned so much in that time, I can recommend it), and now I am using Arch.

Arch gives me lots of the freedoms and possibilites that I am used to from Gentoo but without the constant pain of compilation. I have Arch on my Desktop, all my servers, my NAS

Debian mostly. I appreciate the democratic, non corporate governance, the classic Free Software ethos, the stability, and their not going blindly along with upstream defaults (e.g. telemetry).

My server runs OpenBSD because I find it more tightly designed, and simpler. Laptop Fedora because the hardware wasn't originally well supported by Debian stable.

I’ve used Ubuntu, Arch, and Void in the past. Ended up settling on Fedora Silverblue for the time being.

Gentoo and Fedora for workstations although I’m thinking of switching my last Fedora machine to gentoo. Debian for servers but I’m wanting to learn alpine as well.

using linux for 30y, and the last ~5 of those is manjaro. on laptop, that is. servers still all run debian.

Manjaro. I just switched to catchyos though after the manjaro drama. Oddly in my system, I had a bunch of issues with nabora. I wanted to try a gaming focused one because I basically only use my desktop for that and have a laptop for work.

Linux Mint Debian Edition. I started using Linux in 2007. I've tried a lot of distros, and like several of them, but Mint is the comfiest desktop distro for me.

nixos btw

Selfhosted server for +10 years. Debian. Desktop was on windows. I switched 2 or 3 years ago. It's fedora KDE for me.

Debian. It does everything I want and nothing I don't

Been daily driving Arch on my laptops for the last 10 years. It's been great. Getting the latest software has been especially handy for laptops, where the kernel sometimes needs time to catch up to the latest hardware.

I ran Guix for a few months when I had some extra time and I liked it, but it was very different and not all software I needed ran on it (or ran well). I ended up going back to Arch, but I brought Guix with me, as a package manager.

I also ended up trying Fedora for the first time (ok, I was unemployed) recently and was pleasantly surprised. Turns out Fedora is pretty close to how I configure Arch. And it's got some extra polish that was neat. I ended up installing Fedora Silverblue for my parents 6-8 months ago and it's been working out great for them.

Anyway, Arch has been my reliable companion for the last 10 years.

I’ve been a daily Linux user for sometime between 25-30 years. I’ve used most major distros and the BSDs. For the last several years I’ve used vanilla Fedora Workstation. After a while you just want to use your computer instead of tinker with it.

NixOS so I can keep my config in git. I have a single nix config for all my machines (desktop, laptop and server) so I can share configuration between them. I use it to configure both my system and my user config, my dotfiles, with home-manager. Even my neovim config is in nix thanks to nixvim.

I don't think I could go back now. It can be a bit of a pain from time to time and the learning curve is steep but it has so many advantages. Being able to rollback between config versions (called generations), having a consistent config between my machines, having it all in version control… The repo have so many packages and when there is a module it's really easy to add a service. Writing new packages (derivations) and modules is also not that hard. It can be as simple as calling nix-init.

Had my main ssd fail on me a few month back and it was very simple to just replay the config and just get everything working as before. I only had to do the partitioning by hand (it can be done by nix but I've not gotten around to it yet). That's why I only backup data and home partitions, not system partitions.

I m stuck with Lubuntu for more than 10 years now, they do the job for me and I m good,

what I will always love about them is that I can customise them to be exactly how they functioned and looked the first time I used them and that's all I want from an OS, I don't want extremely drastic changes on my OS I don't get impressed much by that, but low usage of resources is enough, my mentality with computers is if it's not broken no reason to fix it

People are going to hate me for this, but here goes...

I'm using Ubuntu.

Ubuntu Studio, to be precise.

Opensuse since back in the SuSE days. I've dabbled with other distros and even had a somewhat extended run with Fedora when their Gnome implementation was better, but I've always gone back to SuSE. mostly I just like Yast although I find I've used it less and less with time spent understanding what it does and how to do that other ways.

I've been fully daily driving Linux for about 15 years now, and for me it's almost all Arch now.

I started out distro-hopping between Debian, Mint, Ubuntu, Slack, etc, but once I found Arch (and spent two weeks getting it installed, booted, and customized exactly to my liking) I was finally at home.

I know the meme. I'm not here to claim superiority, or diminish the value of other perfectly good distros. I love Debian, I love Void, Ubuntu can die in a fire, etc.

What I love about Arch is the lack of bloat. You get precisely what you ask for, no more, no less. You can legitimately run htop and recognize literally every program, and know if something's wrong immediately.

Every one of my Arch boxes is a perfect little snowflake, suited to exactly the task(s) I built it for. And if there was anything I had to learn or configure along the way? That's just the journey, man.

I have been eyeballing NixOS though...

Debian. For decades.

My first installation was slack and from then until now has been a mix of more things than I care to list, but includes things like freebsd on a DEC multia, a sparcstation pizza box with a 2.6ish kernel maybe?, along with things like Ubuntu, suse, fedora, centos, gentoo, ive built from scratch, I ever remember the days of configuring x with fvwm95 because I thought it would be easier for my parents.

I always go back to Debian. Though I'm happy with arch when I want something 'current'.

I always use Debian for my servers simply because it's stable and third-party repositories are abundant. As for desktops/laptops, I prefer Fedora — I trust their privacy policy and packages rarely break.

The answer is Debian like crabs on a long enough timeline it will eventually become Debian. - Linux user for 27 years

debian since forever. no reason to switch yet.

I've tried many distros over a 20 year period. I'm happy with CachyOS.

15+ years on Fedora

Solid

I used a linux desktop for a few years back in 08-09, started on ubuntu then got on the Gentooooooooooo bandwagon. (Went back to Windows after this due to college + games, naturally)

Ever since then, I just use stable LTS versions of either debian or ubuntu for server applications. Recently changed back to Linux on desktop and went with CachyOS, it's been super solid.

Suddenly realizing I use linux for more than 10 years

[despair noises]

Arch for 13 Years. No distro hopping. The AUR and Wiki are the greatest resources any Linux distro has and I'm not giving them up for anything else. There were periods where I dual booted with Windows for gaming but that's been dead and gone for 5 years. At this point the only times it breaks is because of user error which there is not much of any more.

Never was a distro hopper. Used ubuntu for 10 years. It's not great, but it's good enough. 2 years ago, I made a jump (for me) and loaded up Fedora. As a daily driver, I absolutely love it. That said, I also just recently partitioned a Debian boot, just because there are some few things it does better with no flash or sparkle.

Debian, on the server, the laptop, the desktop, and the gaming machine. Debian.

I started with Slackware many years ago. Eventually switched to Kubuntu on my desktop and laptop machines, then later the server switched to Debian. The desktop and laptop switched later.

I have started with Mandrake (later renamed to Mandriva) then went through few other distros before settling on Gentoo.

Gentoo installation is one of the most complicated because there is no installer, you do everything yourself.

This is like buying car parts and assembling them together into a car using a manufacturer's manual. its painful but once the car is assembled you almost never have to take it to a repair shop. Not because it doesn't breakdown but because you know well how it function and thus how to fix it yourself.