What Linux distribution or distributions do you personally use?
I myself am a daily Void user. I used to use Devuan, but wanted to try rolling release and ended up loving Void!
Arch Linux. Always very up-to-date and the AUR is huge. No dealing with PPAs or snaps or flatpaks or appimages. Just
paru -S any-software-ever-made
. Also very streamlined (systemd for everything lol) and well documented. I tried NixOS for a bit but it was very inconvenient in comparison and I felt like it was impossible to tinker with or understand if you weren’t good at Haskell. Terrible documentation.For servers it’s definitely Debian + docker.
Debian. Several reasons:
- It’s trustworthy.
- It’s not going anywhere. Debian existed when I was a kid and it’ll probably still exist when I draw my last breath.
- I know how to use it, since, once again, I’ve been using it since I was a kid.
- It has all the desktop environments.
- It fully supports systemd. I do not miss the unreliability, slowness, and complexity of what came before that. (Normally I wouldn’t mention this, but your former distro of choice exists solely for the purpose of not having systemd, so it’s relevant this time.)
arch
Fedora, because it just works and it ships recent software versions.
I also like Fedora Silverblue, and projects like ublue are very interesting in my opinion.
NixOS everywhere (except for one server which I have yet to migrate from Rocky to NixOS)
I use Arch Linux with KDE Plasma myself
Linux Mint with Mate DE.
I was a distro hopper once, then I saw the light of NixOS…
I use opensuse with kde and I love it. Have been using it for 2 years now.
For server use at home I use Ubuntu Server and Alma Linux (mostly)
At work it is all RedHat.
Using Arch everywhere (home, work, laptop). It’s boring, but it just works.
Fedora on the desktop. I got my start on Red Hat Linux so I’ve stuck with it since.
For servers I use Debian. Lightweight, widely used, and gets the job done.
I used to use Debian but after switching to Fedora Silverblue two years ago I’ve had zero urge to distrohop. I love that it allows me to tinker without breaking my system (which I used to do with Debian).
Arch Linux everywhere. I’m curious about NixOS but I don’t have the time to tinker anymore.
I use Debian with a patched version of motif window manager. The 90s never ended:
Linux Mint. Nothing beats your computer just working when you have shit to get done.