Fedora server on my server, custom blue build image on my laptop based on Gnome secureblue

Oh fucc how did I miss this in my own comm lmao.

I use NixOS with flakes on all my machines. Having your operating system as code is actually far easier to wrap my mind than other distros and it helps with learning how each of the individual components of a GNU system fit together and with Nix I always know roughly how point A -> point B.

Second would always go to Fedora Atomic Desktop since like NixOS your operating system is basically just a schema to write out before hand and then deploy. The commonality being that the Linux joke of “sudo apt install into broken system” is entirely vanquished in favor of user simplicity and I would recommend something like Universal Blue’s Bazzite to people wanting to see peak GNU/Linux capabilities.

NixOS, really liking the ability to do package and system configuration as code in a single language, and consolidate the configuration for multiple devices in a single repo.

I run Arch on my desktop and media server. The media server mostly just runs docker images though. I set up Fedora Kinoite on my wife’s laptop recently though and think that’s good for every day non gaming use. If I had more time I’d look into NixOS.

I use Fedora with the KDE desktop. I like Fedora because it gets updates pretty quickly, and you get flatpak applications by default, which are more secure and work well. I like KDE because all its built in applications, like the file manager, have the right amount of buttons in them and aren’t overly simplified.

Arch until I get my desktop setup to install Gentoo again. I miss portage so much. I’m going to see if I can make a minimal FreeBSD host install to serve as a hypervisor, and then virtualize various Linux, BSD, and other operating systems, with a Gentoo VM as my main OS. Why FreeBSD? Well…

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Russian-Linux-Maintainers-Drop

I would do OpenBSD, but it looks like FreeBSD is much farther ahead on developing AMD IOMMU support, which is what I need.

https://freebsdfoundation.org/project/amd-iommu/

And if that fails, I may just make a very locked down Gentoo hypervisor, and then I will just practice with a BSD VM until it is ready.

I would like to play with Guix, NixOS, and T2 SDE, and also try LFS.

I use OpenWRT on my routers.

Mint out of simplicity and ease of use because I’ve still got my training wheels on.

Will use Bazzite soon as I’ve just recently got myself a handheld but I haven’t had the energy to tinker around on it just yet.

only 72 comments? come on everyone, those are rookie numbers

Debian with fluxbox, cause I am tired and want things to just work and not change.

debian so i don’t have to do anything

EndeavourOS (it’s basically arch btw)

Arch (btw) on my personal computer and Pop_OS! on a shared computer with my family.

Arch btw, beside the meme it really covers everything I want for my daily driver to do, and I love having all the latest software instead of waiting until it gets added to the official repositories or adding them manually.

If I were to use Linux for professional working though, I would explore Fedora just to have a system that is more stable and can’t cause weird technical issues taking up time from my work.

For servers Debian without even thinking about it

Debian

Fedora, because it works so well. I use the GNOME desktop because I need the bigger UI elements to use a computer effectively, and I like the workspaces. It’s also Fedora’s default, and is really seamless.