cliché question, but hey why not?
Arch Linux.
Arch, Fedora, and Debian. Think I’m going to start phasing out Fedora though.
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.
I have to use Redhat/Fedora at work, so hate to use them in any personal capacity, hence I mostly use debian or ubuntu based distros (mint, popos, neon etc.). Mostly cuz I have worked with them for so long and they simply work. However, might move to Manjaro/Endeavouros, cuz found GPU passthrough to be more efficient there.
Using fedora because back then, they were the only ones to support my hardware. Have been usinc it until today, by inertia. It’s a nice distro for everyday use though.
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
I use Pop OS. Used to be big into tinkering and use Arch and all that which I still love but when I was setting up my gaming PC recently I just wanted to install something quick that worked well. It’s been great so far for gaming, browsing and the very occasional bit of coding. I wouldn’t say I’m super attached to it or anything but I like it.
I recently built a new PC and decided to install Guix on it. I’ve been using arch for years (since around 2005 or so), and wanted to try out declarative system management. I also am a heavy Emacs user and love Lisps, so figured guix was a perfect fit over nix (which I do use on macos).
Debian, because stability, but I wonder why each major upgrade, the nvidia drivers break forcing me to reinstall. Welcoming advice in that regard.
How are you installing your Nvidia drivers? Are all of your packages from stable?
They are. Its a GT710, rather old and cheap by recent standards, does that have anything to do with it?
Xubuntu because I like a non-frills desktop that just works and don’t mind snaps.
Arch, Debian, Ubuntu and its derivatives, Manjaro, a bit of NixOS, Tails. I don’t need to explain “Why?” since I don’t use em for personal preference, but more like “when I’m forced to.”.
Fedora
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.
I was using elementaryos because it looked nice and had a debian base for stability but I don’t like the direction it is going so I am looking for something that is a little out of my comfort zone but not as crazy as arch. Bonus points if it supports KDE.
I just switched to Debian after having enough of Canonical. There is hardly any UI difference, if anything Debian actually works better in every regard for me.
You can select any DE to use during the install process. Gnome, kde, xfce, etc
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.
