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!
Arch Linux. Always very up-to-date and the AUR is huge. No dealing with PPAs or snaps or flatpaks or appimages. Just
paru -S any-software-ever-made
. Also very streamlined (systemd for everything lol) and well documented. I tried NixOS for a bit but it was very inconvenient in comparison and I felt like it was impossible to tinker with or understand if you weren’t good at Haskell. Terrible documentation.For servers it’s definitely Debian + docker.
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.)
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:
Opensuse tumbleweed on my own computer. Rolling release with snapper is very cool.
Work machines: some rhel8 machines, some AlmaLinux machines. Local development happens in a Fedora vm, because that’s how most colleagues role. I hope someday my employer enables us to run a linux distro on our work pcs directly, because most of our stuff runs on linux servers and most of us only use windows to launch our fedora vms.
I have a few dozen computers and most run Pop!_OS.
NixOS everywhere (except for one server which I have yet to migrate from Rocky to NixOS)
Slackware
Ubuntu for life. Unpopular opinion i know, please don’t stone.
arch
NixOS. Declarative config with opt-in state is awesome.
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.
Does SteamOS count? My steam deck is my current “Linux” machine.
Fedora on the desktop. I got my start on Red Hat Linux so I’ve stuck with it since.
For servers I use Debian. Lightweight, widely used, and gets the job done.
I use Arch Linux with KDE Plasma myself