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 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.
I think most people’s second favourite choice is Mint. Mint is an extremely solid choice. It doesn’t top many lists because it doesn’t really stand out, which makes it great.
My only gripe with Mint is that I wish they didn’t remove KDE as one of their flavors. When I started using Linux like a decade ago, I first tried Fedora but struggled to install it. Not sure if it has improved for beginners since then.
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.
Debian with fluxbox, cause I am tired and want things to just work and not change.
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.
debian so i don’t have to do anything
only 72 comments? come on everyone, those are rookie numbers
Bazzite on desktop because it actually just works and headless Debian on my server because stuff like CoreOS is such a pain in the ass with SELinux.
Fedora KDE for half a year now
i dual boot windows and solus linux. it was a good distro when i got it but the lack of support has made me just use the windows side for a while now
Opensuse tumbleweed Plasma 6
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.
EndeavourOS (it’s basically arch btw)
