I use NixOS on my pc, laptop, and server, although I dual-boot windows on my pc to play some games.

My phone is android, I have a pinephone but I can’t get discord and other things to work well on it so it can’t be my daily driver right now. (I know Matrix chat is better than discord, I even host my own instance, but everyone in my school uses discord so there’s no way to switch).

My first foray was with Ubuntu and Mint, and I found the whole experience far too on-rails for me. A few years later, I made the permanent move from Windows to Arch, largely because of how good their documentation on GPU passthrough via OVMF/VFIO was. It was also an excellent opportunity to be forced to learn how my computer works.

Ironically, I almost never open virtual machines for gaming, I have come across very very little that cannot be handled by wine, ge-wine, or proton.

Void Linux is home. Plus, as soon as word got out that Windows 11 had those insane system requirements and the TPM stuff I decided I would abandon Winblows for good once 10 reaches end of life.

Slackware. Though I can make most things work.

EndeavourOS. It’s Arch but without the faff, it just works and looks gorgeous.

Void Linux and NetBSD.

I use whatever is the best fit for the work I need to do. I mainly use macOS, and try to get away with using VM’s with macOS as my host system whenever possible.

I used to be on the Arch bandwagon but after migrating to a MacBook for my daily driver computer it’s mostly just Debian-based distros when the need arises, Kali for work and headless Debian for homelab stuff. I rarely boot my Windows gaming PC anymore. I do have some Windows VM’s for testing exploits and payloads. And emulated Windows 95-98 machines for that OG Oregon Trail fix.

My work machine is macOS as the company won’t let us use Linux. My home machine is Arch Linux (obligatory “BTW”) which I migrated to after Ubuntu dropped Unity and started forcing Snaps on everyone.

However, a nice shameless plug for my Terminal file manager: DF-SHOW which is designed to work on all Unix like systems.

I was using Pop!_OS for a long time, but finally switched to Fedora and I love it because it feels so up to date.

Fedora.

I’ve also been getting more familiar with CoreOS / SilverBlue recently.

Arch. I got it working 3 years ago, it’s still working, stable. On my main laptop, though, I’m running windows, and planning to install Fedora when I get the chance.

I’m a grumpy old man when it comes to OSes. I started on Gentoo, used Arch for a while, a few years of Ubuntu, then a bunch of different Ubuntu-based distros, Fedora and all the Fedora spins, even ran the Hannah Montana OS as a meme for a week.

Eventually, got bored of the latest shiny things and fixing the best thing ever, and am using Kubuntu with Wayland. It just works, got no complaints.

I’m currently using Nobara a Fedora fork and upgraded today to version 38 it was a bit of a stretch. I had to delete many things in my /etc/ to get GNOME 44 working. Bluetooth and the panel on the top right is a bit buggy but it works.

On my laptop I use arch with hyprland

macOS at work and Debian on my personal computer.

I’ll probably have to go with FreeBSD for their minimal base and incredibly clean and well-documented code and utilities.