Asklemmy

I use ArchLinux BTW, because

1. It's very minimal, no bloatware
2. AUR. ~~3. I feel superior~~
3. It just works™*

We're an all-linux household.

• Endeavoros on my gaming desktop
• Garuda on my Framework laptop
• Kubuntu on my partner's Framework laptop
• Endeavoros on my server. Plus a handful of Pis and appliances.

NixOS, because all of the config in my system is declared in a few files on GitHub and it has a huge package repo.

Also it has all of the other advantages of a Linux distro, like privacy, speed and customisability.

Btw I use Archlinux

I switched to it 50% for the AUR: I regularly install softwares not from the classic repos, and the AUR is a godsend compared to cloning a Github, make install and thinking about updating it. The rest is a mix of the ArchWiki, its lightness and openness.

fedora

overall a great experience, very easy to set up and configure, great software support, excellent privacy, etc. my personal favorite linux distro atm. i also like gnome a lot, especially once tweaked with good extensions like dash to dock and transparent top bar.

fuck microsoft and windows.

Strictly Arch Linux since 2008

I'm still using Windows 10 on my personal computer. Oh I'll probably have to upgrade someday, some game or other program will come out with exclusivity of some kind and I'll eventually install Windows 11. But for the most part, I don't want to fuck with it, everything works and I really just don't want the hassle.

Running Linux Mint on an old laptop, mostly because it's too old to decently run Windows 10. Don't use it for much, mostly troubleshooting things.

At work the laptops are Windows 10 and I don't think there's a push to update. Of course all the servers are Redhat Enterprise Linux, and that's where the majority of my work takes place.

I use NixOS. The nice thing about NixOS is that you can set the state of most of your computer in a file or files that can be tracked on git, and any updates can be rolled back.

Debian Stable 11, shitjustworks

Fedora is the most solid thing I've ever used. I use the KDE version on my desktop and silverblue on my laptop. Never have any problems

Linux. I use Arch on my laptop and PopOS on my gaming rig. Still using Windows on my company laptop, but daily driving Linux on the others for over a year now.

Really dislike the Microsoft push for telemetry as well as the integrated ads and other processes wasting my resources.

Linux because it runs fast and does what I need it to.

Fedora work station, it just works.

Pop! OS. It's been almost 2 years since Microsoft arbitrarily told me that my Ryzen 1 wasn't compatible with Windows 11. It's not been entirely smooth sailing, but if i'm honest, i love it when it's not entirely smooth sailing. My relationship with my OS has fundamentally changed and I love it.

Laptop is Linux because it's sort of required for the work I do.

NetBSD on the home server because of pkgsrc and the ease of customizability.

Endeavour os, has all the good stuff arch brings, but the setup is faster. Lot of Linux comments here compared to reddit lol

Windows 10 because I don't want to deal with the hassle of anything else.

I use macos. I find that it gives me a lot of the UNIX stuff (most of the terminal tools that I love) and has a good compromise with quality apps and integration with my phone.

Arch+Plasma+Wayland+GTX1660Ti+Samsung monitor with freesync120Hz. Great freedom. Great custom. Nice performance in gaming. Great software management. Awesome usability for technical user. I had also install apparmor and firewalld for security and timeshift for btrfs snapshots. I think, for me, there is no sense to switch back to windows.

Opensuse Tumbleweed.

I use it because I want a up to date stable system and it seemed like a pretty good option. I've been on it for a few years and really like it. I have tried to switch to Guix several times with however never quite stuck, mostly due to its kde plasma support. I think it's getting better recently though which is nice. Maybe I should try switching to nix instead which offers a lot of the same sorts of things but with mature kde plasma support and a wider package offering.

Fedora KDE on the framwork laptop. Not the only one here it seems. My pc still runs Windows 10 but I'll change that once I have the time.

Fedora is cool because it is about as user friendly to beginners as Ubuntu, without Canonicals shenanigans. It's a freedom respecting community project and always pretty up to date. I like the quick release cycle. It seems like a good balance between a rolling release and slow fixed releases. Upgrading to the next version takes no effort. And KDE is just cool for it's customizability.

Arch.

One day several years ago I had to replace some hardware and the copy of Windows that I had installed decided that I was no longer authorized. I got fed up and left Windows behind for good. For a few years I had Manjaro installed, but eventually I needed a change and wanted to start fresh so opted just to go straight to Arch.

I use Pop!_OS on my desktop PC because i'm tired of microsoft deciding everything of my digital life and also because I just find myself really comfortable with GNOME and the POP!_Shell

Had Ubuntu for a decade then got bored and turned my hp Spectre laptop into a Hackintosh and got hooked. So it's macOS now.

Windows 11 as my daily driver/gaming machine, Debian for my proxmox cluster/vms.

Arch Linux. Its comfy. I like that I don't get spied on. Furthermore it is not made by a company and 100% community driven, which makes it the best Distro for my usecase!

I use Debian because it's what I've been using for the last twenty-two years.

I just finished moving over from Manjaro to Fedora 38 KDE on my framework, and everything just worked out of the box. I didn't need to install any extra packages to get gestures or make the fingerprint reader work.Much more stable, and has btrfs by default. The only thing I miss is the ZSH from manjaro was brilliant, but I guess I can set that up to be similar later on.

Fedora Silverblue, immutable, secure :)

I use Linux Mint and Windows 10. I'm kinda stuck on windows because I'm a gamer. I can run a fair share of my games on Linux but it requires a lot of compromises and there are some games that straight up don't work because of anti cheat.

I wanna go full Linux though.

I use Linux Mint. I started using Linux in 2007 and was an Ubuntu guy. When Ubuntu switched to Unity I wasn't a big fan. At the time, Mint was providing an experience fairly close to what I was used to so I gave it a try. It does everything I need so I haven't looked back. I don't tinker as much as I used to and it's very stable.

Also have a windows install I use for gaming and music production, but 95% of the time I'm on mint.

Arch.

I once ran Ubuntu, but the install instructions for so many programs are 'import this key', 'add these dependencies', and the system quickly became a mess. I had install scripts to install and uninstall some things, but it was too much for me to take care of.

Eventually I found that if you want the latest terragrunt and i3, Arch Linux is easier than Ubuntu.

I actually have all 3.

A windows PC for gaming A macbook for my laptop An Arch Linux PC/Server that I use for most of my work and that hosts all my services

The "why" for each is probably pretty self-explanatory for each. I'm a firm believer in using the right tool for a given job, and I think Windows has the best gaming experience, Mac has the "best" laptops (for my own subjective value of "best"), and linux is the best for software development and service hosting.

In a perfect world I'd use linux for all 3, but while gaming on linux has gotten a lot better, it's not quite "there" yet, and I just love the new Apple chips for laptops in terms of battery life, speed, and heat management

I've distro-hopped a LOT, but always come back to Fedora, because it's super stable, gives me no issues and doesn't get in my way when I want to screw around.

Linux, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed to be precise. Best rolling release distro in my opinion.

Ubuntu since 2006

• It just works for the simple things
• It is as powerful as needed for the complicated things
• It runs nearly everywhere
• It's universally supported by anything that supports Linux
• It's supported at my workplace
• It's got the largest community and body of documentation available which makes solving problems easy
• It's got pretty good UX (I miss Unity)
• I like Snap
• It's got very, very long term security support for free which makes supporting it easy
• I know it very well and can bend it to my will in any way I need
• I'm infinitely grateful to the Debian community for making it possible
• If the BDFL loses his B, there's an obvious backup plan - migrating to Debian

DOS and Windows up to 2006

Endeavour OS KDE. It just works and you have access to the AUR repository, which is huge.

I am using POP_os! It has been very stable and up-to-date, so it has been my daily driver for about 3 years. Sometimes I think about switching to nixos for its declarative system though.

I've been using NixOS since February and have never been this happy with a Linux distro. It's seriously a game changer and it allows me to have a peace of mind about my installation that I could never have with other distros (I was using arch before that).

Fedora with KDE. I ditched Windows about 4 years ago and never looked back. I bounced between a few different distros, but I've been using Fedora in recent months (switched once version 36 was released) and I think I'll stick with it for a while. It's been a great experience and gaming has been pretty painless so far, the only exceptions being games with easy anti-cheat as it doesn't always play nice with Linux users.

Arch Linux for the past 15 years, Ubuntu for 4 years before that and I still use it on my servers but I might switch back to Debian that I used 20 years ago. I'm also using MOROS, a hobby OS I've been working on for the past 2.5 years :)

Mac OS is what I use for everything besides gaming. I do have a Windows PC for gaming, but I am really excited about the future of Linux gaming and am a proud & happy Steam Deck early adopter.

I grew up building my own computers with hand-me-down parts, fighting my sister for the phone line in the dial up days, calling my uncle for a working Windows or Office key, etc. Something broke in me some years back where I want everything to "just work" and that's what Apple products provide.

I've been distro hopping lately and landed in fedora gnome, it seems to be a nice, stable OS, good for personal PC use (might try the kde version on my laptop, seems like a better experience). I haven't even checked on gaming tho, haven't touched the pc for that since I got the steam deck

OpenBSD. It is much simpler for me to understand than Linux. However, Alpine Linux is very nice too.

Windows 10 and 11, with WSL 2 I get all the benefits of Linux with little drawbacks. I used to use various flavours of Linux for quite some time but I got really tired of maintaining that system so I went back to Windows. Unfortunately Windows "just works" while with Linux every update felt like rolling some dice to see if my system still boots with a GUI the next day. Currently I work 100% remotely, I can not afford to have my PC to just stop working for a day or more. For servers I keep using Linux and it has been rock solid for that. Maybe I will make an another attempt in the future, I have a notebook that I use to try some distros. So far nothing impressed me enough to try to make the switch again.

Debian laptop, NAS and home server, SteamOS on the Deck, and W10 on my gaming PC because VR is still kinda janky with Linux :(