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!
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 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.
arch
btw
same, its pretty solid for a meme os. For anything else I usually use Debian.
EndeavourOS on my desktop, Red Hat and Ubuntu on servers(at work).
I have a few dozen computers and most run Pop!_OS.
What’s your second most commonly used distro?
Ubuntu for life. Unpopular opinion i know, please don’t stone.
umm it’s literally the most popular distro
And yet everyone in r/linux and r/linuxmemes kept shitting on it
When you take Pop_OS! into account?
Probably not anytime soon haha
Arch, Debian, NixOS, Fedora Silverblue, Raspbian, GrapheneOS[Android]
I use Debian with a patched version of motif window manager. The 90s never ended:
“Motif Window Manager”? I’m on mobile and have old eyes, but it looks like WindowMaker. If so, great choice! If not, I’ll have to look closer when I get home.
It really is mwm :) The toolchest-like menu in the upper left corner isn’t part of mwm though.
You can find more info about the mwm fork here: https://fastestcode.org/emwm.html
Does SteamOS count? My steam deck is my current “Linux” machine.
Yes! My coworker does this and I think it’s pretty cool.
Moved from Arch to Nix and loving it!
Debian on my gaming desktop and Ubuntu on the family laptop.
Arch on my workstation, Ubuntu on my servers.
Linux Mint, it just works
NixOS everywhere (except for one server which I have yet to migrate from Rocky to NixOS)
I was a distro hopper once, then I saw the light of NixOS…
Tell me about it…
The only reason I might, in the distant future, ever consider changing again is this project, which hopefully would be something between NixOS and Qubes. But that is far in the future and not even that certain.
