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[โ€“] UserNotFound@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] flashgnash@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nixos on my PC, NixOS on my laptop, NixOS on my raspberry pi

Also steamOS on my steam deck , don't see any reason to change that

I also have windows dual booted on my laptop as a secondary os but I boot it around once every couple weeks at most

[โ€“] riskable@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Kubuntu FTW

[โ€“] git_status@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] Stillhart@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Windows 10. No idea why anyone is using Win11.

I've tried Linux every few years for the last few decades and it's never been at a point where I can switch. I am in the process of trying again, however.

Started today trying to dual boot it on a Windows laptop that has a boot SSD and data HDD. Tried resizing the HDD and installing Nobara and can't get the machine to boot into Grub (the suggested fix on their site didn't work, possibly because of the two physical drives). Searching for a solution was fruitless and I'm honestly over it already. I want an OS, not a hobby.

The very definition of insanity right here. There is ALWAYS something that doesn't work and I'm not a fucking idiot but I'm not a developer either. Linux fans act like people on Windows have no excuse not to switch but I've been trying since the 90s and Linux just does everything it can to frustrate me. God knows how someone who's not tech savvy is supposed to figure anything out. /rant

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EndeavourOS

MacOS. Looks like there's tens of us on Lemmy. Tens!

[โ€“] DAC_Protogen@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fedora Silverblue. But since Fedora aims to include telemetry (although in a reasonable way) by version 40, I'll switch soon to something else. I feel it might be time to give BSD an honest attempt.

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[โ€“] Tsuki@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Linux. Pop!_OS

[โ€“] Leafimo@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

MacOS and I'm certainly never going away from that. Just perfect for my use case with nice unix base and a great gui. best of both worlds

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[โ€“] SouthWest@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Linux Mint. Never needed anything else, and hopefully it'll stay this way..

[โ€“] sudostartx@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

Linux Mint. When it first came out, it was the first distro where sound and wifi worked out of the box on fresh installations by shipping with restricted drivers. It made installations so easy that I just stopped trying other distros.

[โ€“] Enlil@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Linux openSUSE

[โ€“] Kleysley@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Linux (Arch with KDE Plasma)

[โ€“] flakpanzer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For personal stuff (mostly development and general browsing) I use PopOS, have been using it for 4 years now with no problems whatsoever.

For work I use macOS because forced.

Will never use a Windows machine again. I tried my wife's Windows 11 machine, and it fucking SUCKS!!

For gaming I have a Steam Deck which is SteamOS.

Linux all the way!

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[โ€“] Skimmer@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Fedora, pretty much everything I want from a Linux distro and desktop OS, fits my needs perfectly and what I would recommend most people.

[โ€“] lemba@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Heavy gamer here. My main Distro is EndeavourOS, came from Linux Mint months ago. My homelab runs on Ubuntu Server.

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[โ€“] Hell@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Endeavour OS

[โ€“] Invalid@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I duel boot. I use Mint 99% of the time & Win10 for that 1% of software/games I can't get working.

[โ€“] czarrie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Currently Arch with KDE, switched recently from Gnome. Probably gonna swap to something a little more basic for the desktop environment, it's pretty but in the words of Peter Griffin, "It insists on itself"

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[โ€“] ThatBaldFella@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] avyrla@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Windows 10 primarily due to work requirements. I have a laptop with Xubuntu for personal use.

[โ€“] daddyjones@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Arch Linux with Openbox

[โ€“] s20@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nobara linux on my media center/gaming PC. The same on my laptop currently, but I'm a habitual distro-hopper, so I may be on NixOS or Vanilla or maybe Void next week. Whichever I happen to be on, there's a 90% chance I'll be using the Gnome DE.

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[โ€“] Digester@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Windows 10 on my main machine and Lubuntu on my home server

[โ€“] laurel@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] nothendev@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[โ€“] Poe@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Linux Mint with gnome desktop

Ubuntu Server for my self-hosted cloud service

[โ€“] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Laptop is an m1 Air. I needed a new laptop and I wanted the System76 lemur pro but it was during the pandemic /chip shortage and I couldn't wait. It was my first apple product and Ive been pleasantly surprised. Iterm2 is fantastic and brew is one of the best package managers I've seen. The apple silicon is incredible and I think the ML cores are something people are sleeping on. They do ML tasks faster than my Nvidia GPUs by a good margin. And unified memory means, if you spec it right, you can have access to tons of ram for ml or GPU tasks.

My desktop has been Pop for 3 years or so. All the games I play work flawlessly and are getting even better as proton gets more love.

Pop is the perfect balance of everything. Cosmic is great, their kernel is very recent, they have the latest gfx card drivers, apt flatpaks means you have access to everything you'd need and it's rock solid stable. The upgrades have been flawless and their docs are incredibly useful.

I have windows lingering on a drive for dual boot but I haven't logged in to that other than to run updates in 1-2 years.

[โ€“] nom_nom@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

MacOS with a tiling window manager for work, Win10 on PC for gaming and Linux on all servers. I would run Linux for work if Office, Adobe and esp. Outlook ran on it, MacOS with Yabai + SKHD is the closest I can get to a Linux experience while still being functional for work.

[โ€“] fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

Debian Linux (stable)

[โ€“] shebpamm@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Dual boot NixOS for productivity and Windows for games. I do also have a macbook that I rarely use.

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Currently on ArcoLinux on both my desktop and laptop (although they both have windows installs that I basically never use except for the rare case I need windows software or games)

[โ€“] vickyW@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Win 10 but I'm craving to install mint/endeavour.

[โ€“] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Linux mint is great for a stable OS afaik, endeavour is excelent for cutting edge packages and AUR.

Depends on preference and needs so while I want to recommend Arch based, I shouldn't as I don't know if its the wrong decision.

[โ€“] TurianHammer@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Windows 11. I don't especially like Windows 11 but dev and gaming is pretty great on Windows. Visual Studio is pretty important for me too.

[โ€“] dotmatrix@lemmy.ftp.rip 4 points 1 year ago

Win 11 because of games, music production and other windows-only tools (TIHI). Some flavor of Debian everywhere else.

[โ€“] Clamor_@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

I've been using windows for years now and I don't think I'll ever switch to another OS, Linux or otherwise.

[โ€“] danie10@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Manjaro Linux, also for my gaming. Booted up my secondary Windows drive yesterday on my main computer, just to update it.

[โ€“] lntl@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] backshift0022@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Windows 11. I'd love to switch to Linux but I have a few edge cases that keep me from doing that right now. I made the mistake of buying Forza Horizon 5 on the Windows store instead of steam. I know I can move my save over to the steam version and rebuy it, but I got the premium version and have no idea what DLC I need to buy again when I look at the store page. And I have an oculus quest which I use with Oculus Link to play PCVR games. There's ALVR to do it on Linux, but compared to link it's not going to cut it for me. Once I have a new VR headset (AKA when valve replaces the Index) and Forza horizon 6 is out/5 is EOL I'm more than happy to make the jump.

[โ€“] itsmikeyd@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

We have very similar stories!

[โ€“] stagen@feddit.dk 4 points 1 year ago

MacOS - I've got a Macbook Pro that I do all my work and personal stuff on and then I have my Windows 10 PC that I use almost exclusively for gaming.

It's just practically easier for me to work with MacOS.

I do graphical design work.

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