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.)
The thought that Debian will continue into the future feels comforting. How cool it would be if in 5000AD kids on Mars or Europa are running Debian 100?
Slackware
I was a distro hopper once, then I saw the light of NixOS…
I use Debian with a patched version of motif window manager. The 90s never ended:
Ubuntu for life. Unpopular opinion i know, please don’t stone.
Debian 12 for now is a great investment for the next 5 years, tho.
Arch baybeeee 💯💯💯
NixOS. Declarative config with opt-in state is awesome.
Same here. It’s made my life a whole lot easier since on previous distros, I had to depend on documenting manual hacks I had done.
Fellow NixOS traveller. I used Nix for work and never saw the appeal of a whole OA built around it but when I saw a tutorial with the declarative config I was instantly sold.
NixOS everywhere (except for one server which I have yet to migrate from Rocky to NixOS)
Does SteamOS count? My steam deck is my current “Linux” machine.
I have a few dozen computers and most run Pop!_OS.
arch
I use Arch Linux with KDE Plasma myself
OpenSUSE, Tumbleweed on workstations (KDE) and Leap on my server.
I use opensuse with kde and I love it. Have been using it for 2 years now.
For server use at home I use Ubuntu Server and Alma Linux (mostly)
At work it is all RedHat.
