Oh hey, my anniversary is coming up.

For base daily driver on desk and lap, just a stable standard beginner friendly distro. I’ve customized it a lot, added custom hotkey scripts here and there, but it’s so close to base that a stranger could use it. VMs for anything specialist, a couple of portable USB distros for presentation/demo/one-purpose OS environments, but for the most part I’ve just kept it simple and clean.

Ubuntu for many years, then back to Windows, then Arch for a year and now NixOS for about 1.5 years

Approaching 20 years full time., basically Ubuntu or Debian with xfce desktop for desktops. I know it’s not what all the cool kids are using or doing but it works. Going back nearly 30 years I was messing around and failing with all sorts of distros

RIP Mandrake my first ever Linux experience that actually worked

I’ve been using Linux for over 20 years. My first distro was Mandrake. I’ve always cime back to that line od distros.

I’m currently using Mageia on my laptop and gaming PC. I can’t think of anything I haven’t been able to run. My daughter uses the gaming PC to game and do school work. It’s a great distro with little headache.

I also Ubuntu Studio for recording music, playing electric drums, music productuon, and also gaming. I also have some hime automation set up on it.

Using Arch for almost a decade now. Started with Ubuntu, fedora, mint but finally landed on arch. But am thinking about switching to gentoo; arch has gone too mainstream that im afraid it might be plagued with “age verification” virus

Nix for home server Cachy OS for daily driver I was using gentoo+openRC and later gentoo+runit before coming to nix os. But still I love arch based cachy and gentoo over nix

Debian Trixie headless on my router/server raspberry pi and NixOs on my laptop.

However I’m planning to switch from Nix this summer since one of the maintainers of NixOs is the one which added age verification to systemd, still haven’t decided on which Os I’ll switch to probably Devuan os but may give Alpine a shot since it’s more stable than Arch btw, so I’ll just be ricing and distro hopping this summer until I pick my new favorite again.

Desktop: Pop!_OS 24.04 (thinking of rolling back to Gnome as cosmic is too rough around the edges still)

Servers: Ubuntu Server 24.04.4

Containers: Debian Trixie or specific images for the project I’m working on

I’ve been using Linux for more than 20+

First distro: Slackware, then Debian for many years, finally Fedora, since 2014, very happy user.

What I like in Fedora: the 6 months release provides bleeding edge experience without compromising stability.

Hi, been on Linux for over 20 years now. Very recently (less than a month ago) I switched my personal system to NixOS, I also switched one of my servers to it. Some of my other systems are on Arch as that’s what I was using before. My work computer is on Ubuntu as that is company issued.

I liked Arch because of its simplicity and the AUR, but I missed the package sets from Gentoo, NixOS is excellent because it brings the package lists and also includes configuration on them. A pain to do the initial setup, but then you get reproducible systems very easily and most of the time you want your systems to be mostly the same.

Debian. I like my computer to work.

Depends! Bazzite on ROG Ally X, Debian for servers, CachyOS for my desktop and laptop and Fedora for my sons PC

Fedora

OpenSUSE if you want something non American and not directly related to RedHat

Most answers seem to be Debian. Sort of just works for me as well. With KDE Plasma and couldn’t be happier with it. I keep on forgetting how I did stuff though because it’s solid set and forget most of the time.

I’m using Linux.