Debian on desktop, Debian on server, Debian on my VMs and Debian on my containers.

I used to use Fedora and CentOS, then Fedora and Alma Linux but since RH decided to be evil I decided to go full community distro.

Debian has actually gotten really usable lately. Bookworm is fantastic and whenever I want a newer version of something I use Flatpak knowing that the base below is rock solid.

Debian, because stability, but I wonder why each major upgrade, the nvidia drivers break forcing me to reinstall. Welcoming advice in that regard.

I’m on OpenSuse Tumbleweed right now.

I got tired of updating version numbers on Mint.

As a side note, just plugged in a years-old random printer/scanner combo my roommate had been trying to find driver’s for, for hours, on his windows machine. It just worked immediately in Linux, didn’t need to download anything. Suck it, printer!

I rub Debian Sid/Unstable on both my desktop and my work laptop’s WSL2 VM. I use Debian for a lot of reasons, but I think one of the biggest is it’s the “lowest common denominator” for the entire tree base and beyond, and thusly works as much.

Some tool only offers Ubuntu install instructions? It’ll work.

Something needs to be installed from source? Any needed build tools are at most an apt install away.

“Help I can’t figure out why my systemd service isn’t starting in Arch”. Pending systemd version incompatibilities, there’s likely nothing Arch-specific about that problem.

Debian has always felt like, I dunno, Latin. So many other languages are based on it, or somehow arrived at the same way to word things despite it, and so once you understand it you can mentally tie all kinds of things together when you run into something in a different language (read: OS).

NixOS

Whenever my system is in an incorrect shape, I can not only roll back to a previous one, I can go back several updates ago. But an update on NixOS could be a system package installation or a settings change.

My system settings are all in two files, both in git. There’s also the versions of all of my packages that are installed into the store, each with versioned dependencies, but not globally installed so they don’t conflict with each other. This is why I can have a rolling system using the stable wine version.

I also found out packaging is not so difficult so I’ve actually successfully packaged some of the software I use

I might try other distros but I always come back to Debian.

I’ve been a Linux user for a very long time. Personally, I’m currently using Mint because I don’t want to fuss with it. Seems like one of the few distros that doesn’t require a lot of effort.

Back in the day when Slackware was still new, I had the time (and patience) to compile my own drivers and kernels. Now I just want to do what I need to do and get on with my life.

OpenSuse Tumbleweed. A rolling release distro with a ton of quality assurance work already done for it. (Open)Suse is actually a family of distros so if I ever need a stable or enterprise distro that I’m already familiar with, I have Leap and SLES respectively.

Laptop - Manjaro because it works and I quite like KDE/plasma.

Work - I use ubuntu server (choice) and Turnkey Linux (legacy) for streaming internally/intranet things respectively. Most of the servers are windoze (corporate policy)

PC at home - Mint (though not so much these days because of an old nvidia card for which there is no longer support and it’s not as convenient as the laptop)

I use Arch, btw. And PopOS and NixOS.

I’ve been on Ubuntu forever, mostly because when I built my PC, it was popular. Also it’s purple. I’m not on it as much lately and need to check out new distros again.

Arch on my desktop because I customize it to how I like and don’t care if something breaks (rarely does). And linux mint on my laptop because I need a more reliable distro when taking my laptop to work.

I love love love Debian

Over the last decade I’ve tried basically every major distribution, within reason, and I keep coming back to Arch. It’s easy to install, fairly easy to maintain, no bullshit added, and I can configure it exactly how I want it. And the cherry on top - alpm/pacman. This is what really pulls it all together for me

Fedora