@laverabe For years I used Ubuntu on both my laptop and desktop computers. Switched to EndeavorOS on the laptop, but it would not install on desktop. I installed Mint on the desktop, but it felt like Ubuntu.

Now I am running MX on both

Work - openSUSE Leap, since it is stable and has snapshots out of the box
Home - Arch Linux since it’s great for gaming

Arch because it’s rolling release and customizable. I was using Nobara until a couple of weeks ago and switched to Arch because Nobara is basically a tweaked Fedora. The switch had nothing to do with the RedHat thing. It had to do with Fedora’s phasing out of X. I don’t need X for very much, just actually one little game that doesn’t work on Wayland (yet). I think I’m sticking with Arch forever now that I’ve realized how nice it is to not have to upgrade from whatever version number to the next. Gamers who don’t want a lot of hassle and like out-of-the-box functionality should consider Nobara, though. I love it as much as I am enjoying Arch.

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.

Gentoo because it’s systemd free-ish. Also because it has good support for musl and clang.

Pop_os. I bought a system76 laptop and that is what came on it. It works well and is no fuss for me. Not a huge gnome fan but c’est la vie. Highly doubt a distro is going to center itself around something like xfce or enlightenment. I have distro hopped for years but for now I am happy with something I don’t have to tinker with all the time.

Xubuntu Minimal for me. I use my MBP for the most part, but like the idea of turning a Chromebook with soldered memory and storage into something useable for programming. The 16GB of storage on the model I bought makes it difficult to find a Debian based distro that leaves more than 1GB free. Xubuntu has been the best on that front at 4GB free. That and out of the box touchscreen support. I like the idea of being able to say that the setup I use for programming in my spare time is a $37 ThinkPad Chromebook with Xubuntu on it.

Mint, because I’m a basic bitch.

manjaro kde with bismuth tiling

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.

NixOS. I’ve been running Linux since Slackware 1.0, since then have run Debian, LFS, RedHat, CentOS, Gentoo, Arch and Ubuntu. After years of Ubuntu I discovered NixOS and after diving deep into it, have never been happier with a distro. All of my machines and dot files are in a straightforward single language in a git repo. The mutable parts of all my applications are nicely isolated and backed up and I can make changes to my systems fearlessly. It has a very steep learning curve, but it’s amazing.

Debian, because I know they won’t pull a redhat ever. They do things the right way for things that matter.

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.

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).

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.