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[–] Xero@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago

Linux, I like my main boxen to be stable. Unlike my Windows game box.

[–] EugeneNine@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Slackware Linux

[–] ttk@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

mac for working, windows for gaming, linux for serving

Pop OS from the start of the year. The Steam Deck showed be his far Linux gaming has come, no issues running the things I play. Glad to be rid of Windows

[–] zloubida@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Manjaro, because it's up to date while easy to use.

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[–] OldFartPhil@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Debian Stable (Bookworm)

[–] tvmole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

EndeavourOS on desktop and laptop. It's been working great for years

[–] timkenhan@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Debian & Gentoo for personal

Ubuntu & Mint for work

[–] Firepotato@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

KDE Neon. It's Ubuntu LTS with the latest KDE development stuff.

I generally dislike Ubuntu because they have some really odd breakages and bad defaults, but Debian just gets too out of date eventually. I do use Debian for anything that needs Linux and isn't my main desktop, though (and *BSD if it just needs UNIX).

[–] farmer_bobathan@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I use arch on my laptops, debian on my servers, and I recommend fedora to others. I'm also nix/guix curious.

[–] User0705@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Win 11 it just works for me

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

My main system is running Windows 10

It works great for everything I need and as long as I don't enable the TPM in my motherboard settings I don't have to worry about it upgrading itself to Windows 11. Unlike when my system upgraded itself from 8.1 to 10. That was a hard one due to driver issues with my Bluetooth card at the time.

[–] sudoreboot@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

NixOS. I distrohopped for years but now I've landed and it has been several years since I felt any urge to explore alternatives (maybe with the exception of Guix, which is basically the same idea but everything is in Guile Scheme (Lisp)).

I'm never going back to a mutable OS if I can help it.

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[–] weew@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Windows, because gaming. Sticking with 10 as long as possible (LTSC), maybe 12 will be worth upgrading to

[–] NENathaniel@vlemmy.net 3 points 1 year ago

Windows on desktop, Mac on laptop (altho likely switching to Framework with windows soon)

[–] dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza 3 points 1 year ago

Arch with KDE on my desktop where I play games and fuck around, Manjaro KDE on my work laptop, Debian on my servers. Doesn't get much better than that.

[–] MangoKangaroo@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Debian 12 with GNOME. I'm boring and just want something that works. :)

[–] world_hopper@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Windows 10 but I do most of my work in an ubuntu 22.04 VM in virtualbox. But use windows for games and casual use.

Server runs ubuntu 20.04 server which has a bunch of services for my network and my main storage.

Laptop runs ubuntu 22.04 desktop. It's an old laptop so I'm using ubuntu to extend its life.

[–] jetsetdorito@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Windows.. for gaming on my desktop and Photoshop on my laptop.. I know there's alternatives, but not without compromise

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 year ago

Ubuntu. For at least a decade now, I'm sure.

[–] darkgeek@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use Gentoo because it's quite customizable. What's more, building a whole system from source is more secureπŸ˜„.

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[–] xompax@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Slackware Linux currently

[–] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Windows 10 + linux mint dual booted on my desktop which is my current main, but I have windows 11 on my laptop that will become my main computer because college. Unfortunately windows 11 is required, i dont even know if stuff like solidworks that i will have to use would run on linux. I am also just more used to windows in general

[–] zerbey@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Windows, Linux on my servers and Raspberry Pi machines. Linux on desktop is oh-so-close, but it's been oh-so-close since the early 2000s!

[–] spider@vlemmy.net 3 points 1 year ago

Q4OS, a very user-friendly Debian-based OS.

[–] cevn@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Ubuntu mainly and Windows mainly for streaming. Discord lags for some reason when I stream on Linux. I also have Fedora and Manjaro on my second/third comps but that wasn’t asked..

[–] Blamemeta@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Win10 so I can play heavily modded skyrim

[–] Tardigrade@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Fedora KDE feels like the perfect blend of customization and stability for me. Oh, and the packages are up to date. I have been on Linux since the early 2000's and finally stopped distrohoping with Fedora about 1 year ago.

[–] IlliteratiDomine@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ubuntu at work, Arch at home. Having a linux machine at work has been an incredible upgrade.

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[–] Vorthas@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

EndeavourOS on my desktop and Pop!_OS on my laptop (it's a System76 laptop).

[–] mobcharacter@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I've been using Windows 11 and Ubuntu with dual boot on my laptop, but a few days ago I tried Linux Mint, and it's awesome. Now I plan to switch from Ubuntu to Linux Mint.

[–] darkan15@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I have dual boot Manjaro/Windows, but honestly I haven't used the windows partition in two years except for the very occasional moment I need to check if a document format is alright to send to someone, or anyone else not familiar with Linux needs to do something.

[–] noisy@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Windows 11 for gaming PC, Windows 10 for work laptop, Mac OS for personal laptop and Fedora for my old laptop. Also using both Ubuntu and Rocky Linux for servers. Steam Deck is still on Steam OS, Pi's use Raspberry Pi OS (aka raspbian). I don't really have a 'main' computer as it mostly depends where I am and what I'm doing.

I'm pretty comfortable with any OS at this point, even on mobile devices (both Android and iOS/iPad OS). I'm not a big fan of Windows but it pays the bills working in IT. I was in the process of migrating servers away from Ubuntu and onto Rocky (rip CentOS) although with the recent changes in Red Hat Land... We'll see how the rest of the migration progresses.

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[–] Nyanix@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

My partner and I have been on Manjaro for 3 years and never looked back

[–] wortaggrobart@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fedora Workstation. Everything just works out of the box, even AAC codec with Bose headphone.

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[–] citrixscu@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Win11 on bare metal (for games) with VMware workstation running Silverblue and Arch in distrobox. Most of my time is spent in VMs when not gaming. Did the dual boot thing for a while but it got annoying.

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[–] minthenry@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Linux Mint with KDE Plasma.

[–] CAPSLOCKFTW@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Arch with KDE on Desktop, Arch with custom DE (based on i3) on my Laptop. However I consider switching to KDE on my Laptop due to updates requiring me to fix things quite often.

[–] Socket462@feddit.it 3 points 1 year ago

Windows 11 as my everyday os

But everything around me is Linux (proxmox running Debian LXC) or BSD (opnsense, truenas)

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