Pretty happy. Debian works good. Rhel works good too.
The Toyota Camry and Lexus 300 of distros.
Recently tried Kubuntu. It was able to successfully connect to my docking station with double 4k monitors connected too, which some other distros failed at. So pretty happy with that I suppose.
All in all, I still find most distros to be hit and miss with issues. There’s always something that makes it meh. Like missing features or inconveniences.
Sometimes I think the Linux community should try to consolidate more to focus on a few well-working distros rather than the large amount of distros that are currently there, each with their own set of issues.
I’ve been using EndeavourOS for a few years now, which is effectively a “good sane defaults” Arch out of the box. I’ve attempted to use numerous distros in between (including plain Arch) but there’s always something I feel is missing or just isn’t right (for me).
My distro hoping days are about done. I started with ubuntu -> KDE Neon -> Arch -> Manjaro -> Solus -> Manjaro -> Pop_OS -> Fedora.
I’m sticking with fedora because I love the ideology behind the project and the pace of updates works perfect for me. Not too fast but still very up-to-date. Also I used to hate gnome but after using fedora I love it, I realized I didn’t hate gnome but hated all the clunk other distro would add to it. I am interested in NixOS but for now I’m gonna continue to stick with fedora, might hop to fedora silverblue tho.
I’ve been with Fedora for awhile now because I like the project and how it pushes things forward. Changed to Silverblue and never returned.
Now I’m using Bluefin because I like the little tweaks on top of Silverblue. Would recommend.
Definitely gotta try it out. Been on the same install for years and I need a fresh start
I enjoy Fedora. I can complain all day about Redhat being evil, but I haven’t found a desktop distro that scratches the same itch, so I’m happy for the time being.
On the server side, Debian is perfect for me and I have zero qualms with it.
Been using Debian stable again this year, but this time in a VM (Windows host. I know, I know.)
I’m very happy with it. I tried other distros but kept coming back to Debian.
I’ve found that Windows is a pretty bad hypervisor
It really is bad compared to KVM. Though for my usecase of pandoc+vim, running Debian with VMware does the job. Browsing the web, watching videos, and listening to music are okay too. It’s very bad for GPU accelerated stuff though which is what the Windows host is for.
I want to dual boot again but I’m still working on this project on one of my SSDs so I don’t want to touch anything yet.
You also could virtualize Windows. Just make it full screen or do GPU and USB passthough
I haven’t tried it yet but I would rather dual boot for games with anti-cheat that don’t work with Wine or a VM.
I’ve been on Nobara for almost a year now and am really happy with it. The only distro I’d probably switch to is Bazzite just to try out immutability, but aside from that I’m good where I am.
I’m on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and I’m not quite satisfied, but I think it’s a “me” problem. The distro is fine. It’s great! It has practically all the things I was looking for in a distro when I came back to Linux. I have had no major issues that I can recall and updates have never broken anything. The only small nag I have is that Zypper sometimes wants to install patterns that I never installed to begin with when updating, but there are ways around that. I’m just annoyed that that’s the default behavior.
But I’m not happy. I’m constantly weighing my options and thinking of different distros/DEs and I don’t know why. The current setup serves me wonderfully but it’s not perfect, what ever that means. I think I’m looking for a combination of attributes that doesn’t exist, possibly can’t exist. TW and maybe Debian sid get the closest and I try to tell myself that’s good enough, but there’s always this feeling of dissatisfaction I can’t quite shake and it’s annoying.
On my phone I run postmarketOS and on my Raspberry Pi I have Raspbian and those are great.
Arch + i3wm on my work laptop and I love it. Super functional.
I got a refresh/new laptop and they put Ubuntu on it. Really miss Arch’s repos & package manager. Probably will switch it at some point.
I stopped distro hopping pretty much after trying arch. I still love arch, but my new love is chimera Linux.
For servers I used to run Debian stable, but these days I’m pretty set on alpine.
So far I haven’t had any major issues whatsoever with MX running KDE, other than Vbox being the absolute worst to attempt to get working (which I still can’t). Otherwise, works fine enough for what I need.
Started using Endeavour OS a few years back. Not necessarily the most stable, but I think my current install is the longest running single install I’ve ever had. Even if I screw something up and it won’t boot I’ve been able to recover without a reinstall.
I use Ubuntu at work. No issues with it.
Super happy. POP OS has been entirely pain free since I installed it and has a great looming future with COSMIC DE!
I’m using Bazzite for games and I like it so much I started moving homelab machines to Fedora IoT.
