Arch as a daily driver, Debian for my girlfriend and the self hosted stuff, Raspbian for the PiHole
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I recently just set up Mint on a virtual machine. I had the iso image and I knew how it's easy for me to get around, so I did it only to find the program I was looking for isn't what I thought it was. It's kinda my main go to for Linux work on a virtual machine because of how hassle free it tends to be for me.
That VM was made after I made the mistake of making a Liya one but not putting enough memory into the virtual hard disk.
I'm currently waiting to upgrade computers before I make the full jump since I already have everything set up just fine on my desktop, but I'm definitely thinking of starting with Mint for a general easy to use start or going to endeavourOS since I have some experience with that. (That's subject to change if I try more distros on virtual machines and find one I really like...)
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?
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Debian since '95, (After a try with Slackware and RedHat each for a month or 2-3)
I run testing on my home devices (trixie now). Totally happy with it. (I really don't like the rpm based ones, even more so since IBM bought RedHat) Tried Ubuntu once, didn't know how fast to get back after the 1st major upgrade killed my system years ago.
I used ctwm since '96, switched to xfce4 in '18 (and use it as wm), ctwm is still in use for vnc connections on the rpi.
Arch and Debian. In the future Iβll probably move to something without systemd, but for now this is what I use. I donβt understand why so many people use Ubuntu and even fedora now with this REHL controversy. Why would choose to use a corporate distro when others are also just as good? Doesnβt that negate the purpose of using linux and free software in the first place? (This applies to popos, linux mint Ubuntu, and all those other Ubuntu OSes)
when others are just as good
Arch BTW for my personal machine and Debian for my server
Gentoo on my desktop and laptop. I also have an old thinkpad T41 that runs FreeDOS which isn't linux but is still awesome.
Fedora because they keep the packages updated. I could go with Arch, but the amount of updates per day is too high.
Debian and Alpine
Alpine for Docker containers and Debian for general putpose and sometimes also for containers.
Fedora Xfce spin here!
Same. Big fan of their net installer
Nix OS, because I use both a laptop and a desktop constantly, so having a reproducible environment is key
EndeavourOS (Arch-based btw)
I used arch btw, now I use NixOS btw
Fedora
Gentoo!
Even started a community with a whopping 16 subscribers and almost no posts! !gentoo@lemm.ee.
I've been maining endeavouros for a little over a year now. It's oddly easier than any other os I've ever run.
Main computer: Arch (BTW) because I am a WM user (awesomewm) and AL has no bloat to remove. Also because of the AUR.
- main server is a gentoo beast. I chose gentoo because systems was actually causing some problems and reporting a "degraded" status. OpenRC is really nice after years of systemd :-)
- second server, used for backups: NixOS, for no particular reason. I might install Debian 12 on it one day.
Pop_OS on my laptop
Fedora with KDE!
Fedora, itβs running great on my older ThinkPad
I'm very happy with Arch. Before that I was using Mint.
I am running Ubuntu on my machines and whatever Docker containers if I need some other flavour.
Nobara on the Desktop, Pop OS on the Laptop and the Surface (needs a custom kernel though). I'd use Nobara on everything but I am too lazy to switch.
Arch and it's variants, depending on when I feel like reinstalling again, currently testing the waters with EndeavourOS
Switched my 15 yo macbook to Xubuntu. Now it works much better than vanilla Ubuntu.
Switched my 15 yo macbook to Xubuntu. Now it works much better than vanilla Ubuntu.
I did the same with manjaro, though I split it so I technically can get back to macos if I really want to. Annoyingly that now means I need to keep an eye on the disk usage.
NixOS on two boxes (starting to deep dive big into flakes to try to automate how the separate devices are configured and apps installed, itβs pretty slick if you ever need to reload the PCs). I have endeavorOS for an AI test box since it was easier to get an arch based distro to work with the complicated install chain of Cuda and Python dependency hell. I have Fedora on an PC my wife uses with Budgie. I have a Debian box for my 3d printer controlling. I may move something back to Solus once they release their new ISO, I miss it. Iβd probably end up installing nixpkgs on it so I donβt loose too much functionality/package availability.