I use ArchLinux BTW, because
- It’s very minimal, no bloatware
- AUR
3. I feel superior - It just works™*
I’m still using Windows 10 on my personal computer. Oh I’ll probably have to upgrade someday, some game or other program will come out with exclusivity of some kind and I’ll eventually install Windows 11. But for the most part, I don’t want to fuck with it, everything works and I really just don’t want the hassle.
Running Linux Mint on an old laptop, mostly because it’s too old to decently run Windows 10. Don’t use it for much, mostly troubleshooting things.
At work the laptops are Windows 10 and I don’t think there’s a push to update. Of course all the servers are Redhat Enterprise Linux, and that’s where the majority of my work takes place.
So actually companies using RHEL! I only know of the giants like Meta leeching on CentOS, which drives me nuts.
Meta uses CentOS but they aren’t leeches. They contribute a ton to CentOS, EPEL, and further upstream in Fedora and in individual software projects.
Fedora is the most solid thing I’ve ever used. I use the KDE version on my desktop and silverblue on my laptop. Never have any problems
Why not Kinoite?
Kinonite is nice and all but on my desktop I am downloading packages far more often and I don’t want to deal with the hassle of restarting my system every time. I know there are ways around that but eh
I’ve been experimenting with Kinoite for a while now on a VM (because my main computer has an Apple Silicon chip and running Linux on bare metal would be inconvenient), and keeping packages on a toolbox works pretty well, so no need to restart there.
If you need to layer packages with rpm-ostree and don’t want to reboot, you can try the apply-live flag.
Plus, most of what I need can be found on Flathub.
Yes, layer as little apps as possible. Binary system-installing apps are a problem, but you should avoid these anyways. Also switching to hardened kernel and malloc are, but there is a project for that now in the “awesome user images” of ublue.it (not by them)
Arch+Plasma+Wayland+GTX1660Ti+Samsung monitor with freesync120Hz. Great freedom. Great custom. Nice performance in gaming. Great software management. Awesome usability for technical user. I had also install apparmor and firewalld for security and timeshift for btrfs snapshots. I think, for me, there is no sense to switch back to windows.
Brave soul to run Nvidia on Wayland. For me it kind of works but has weird issues randomly, as is typical for Nvidia.
The are some bug, especially with xwalyand apps like steam. I found a bug where steam doesn’t find adwaita theme and crash after few seconds, but the most of games I ran works preety well or perfectly.
Yeah I actually had no problems with games either, just Gnome and KDE having buggy behavior.
Had Ubuntu for a decade then got bored and turned my hp Spectre laptop into a Hackintosh and got hooked. So it’s macOS now.
Is it difficult to install and maintain that? I’ve been wanting to try it
That depends on your hardware. It was very fiddly to get it going because the WiFi module in the Spectre wasn’t supported at first. But then someone released a driver for it. I also had to read a lot into the documentation and discussions to get my config together. But once that was done, it ran almost like a normal Macbook Pro and I barely had to touch the OpenCore config.
(OpenCore is a bootloader that changes things in memory so your laptop appears like an Apple device to macOS. You then use the normal macOS, can download macOS updates, etc.)
Here’s my config for the hp Spectre x360 13-4104ng for reference.
I use Pop!_OS on my desktop PC because i’m tired of microsoft deciding everything of my digital life and also because I just find myself really comfortable with GNOME and the POP!_Shell
Windows 11 as my daily driver/gaming machine, Debian for my proxmox cluster/vms.
Arch.
One day several years ago I had to replace some hardware and the copy of Windows that I had installed decided that I was no longer authorized. I got fed up and left Windows behind for good. For a few years I had Manjaro installed, but eventually I needed a change and wanted to start fresh so opted just to go straight to Arch.
Arch here as well. For me it’s rolling release that’s the selling point. I’ve maintained the same arch install on my desktop for five years with minimal maintenance required. The only reason it’s not ten years is I built a new PC and didn’t carry forward my old root drive. Arch is much less work than is advertised once it’s up and running. No dist upgrades or reinstalls when a new release comes out. Just keep it updated and pay attention to the website in case something requires manual intervention to update.
This is similar to my situation. It’s out of laziness at this point because my two installs just keep working.
If it ain’t broke…
Fedora work station, it just works.
NixOS, because all of the config in my system is declared in a few files on GitHub and it has a huge package repo.
Also it has all of the other advantages of a Linux distro, like privacy, speed and customisability.
I actually have all 3.
A windows PC for gaming A macbook for my laptop An Arch Linux PC/Server that I use for most of my work and that hosts all my services
The “why” for each is probably pretty self-explanatory for each. I’m a firm believer in using the right tool for a given job, and I think Windows has the best gaming experience, Mac has the “best” laptops (for my own subjective value of “best”), and linux is the best for software development and service hosting.
In a perfect world I’d use linux for all 3, but while gaming on linux has gotten a lot better, it’s not quite “there” yet, and I just love the new Apple chips for laptops in terms of battery life, speed, and heat management
all 3
RIP BSDs
I currently use fedora. I am absolutely fine with Ubuntu, but the setup process is a bit too much for me, as I prefer flatpak and vanilla gnome, so it takes a bit of work for Ubuntu to get there. Also I feel like ubuntu use a different gui for different purpose, it is a bit annoying (for example, there are three app, one update apt, one flatpak, one drivers.) It is not a big deal, but a bit annoying.
Mostly all I need is just a stable os that I can work in, and I don’t really want to mess with my os. So I don’t choose more cutting-edge/interesting distros like suse, arch, or Nix.
There are also distros like pop and mint, but they don’t support gnome well, and I haven’t get into the habit of cosmos or cinnamon.
Endeavour OS KDE. It just works and you have access to the AUR repository, which is huge.
Yes! Same here. I’m new to both arch-based distros and KDE, so I figured I’d give endeavour OS KDE a shot. So far, it’s been amazing! I have it installed on a laptop and it’s been great. I love how fast pacman is and I can’t believe I’ve been living without all of this customization KDE has to offer.
Linux, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed to be precise. Best rolling release distro in my opinion.
Fedora Silverblue, immutable, secure :)
Also using silverblue now but i must say it may not be for me. Everything is a little bit different and sometimes it’s just annoying.
it takes a while to get used to but i can never go back to a traditional OS
Same here. Even using stable Debian seems so broken now.
That makes me hopeful.
