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atk007 ,

I have to use Redhat/Fedora at work, so hate to use them in any personal capacity, hence I mostly use debian or ubuntu based distros (mint, popos, neon etc.). Mostly cuz I have worked with them for so long and they simply work. However, might move to Manjaro/Endeavouros, cuz found GPU passthrough to be more efficient there.

eumesmo ,

Using fedora because back then, they were the only ones to support my hardware. Have been usinc it until today, by inertia. It’s a nice distro for everyday use though.

ShadyGrove ,

I recently built a new PC and decided to install Guix on it. I’ve been using arch for years (since around 2005 or so), and wanted to try out declarative system management. I also am a heavy Emacs user and love Lisps, so figured guix was a perfect fit over nix (which I do use on macos).

Aurenkin ,

I use Pop OS. Used to be big into tinkering and use Arch and all that which I still love but when I was setting up my gaming PC recently I just wanted to install something quick that worked well. It’s been great so far for gaming, browsing and the very occasional bit of coding. I wouldn’t say I’m super attached to it or anything but I like it.

dinckelman ,

Over the last decade I’ve tried basically every major distribution, within reason, and I keep coming back to Arch. It’s easy to install, fairly easy to maintain, no bullshit added, and I can configure it exactly how I want it. And the cherry on top - alpm/pacman. This is what really pulls it all together for me

overkill0485 ,

Debian, because stability, but I wonder why each major upgrade, the nvidia drivers break forcing me to reinstall. Welcoming advice in that regard.

myersguy ,

How are you installing your Nvidia drivers? Are all of your packages from stable?

overkill0485 ,

They are. Its a GT710, rather old and cheap by recent standards, does that have anything to do with it?

akincisor ,

Debian, because I know they won’t pull a redhat ever. They do things the right way for things that matter.

phoenixz ,

Been on Ubuntu since forever but I’m seriously considering debian. What, in your view, would be the biggest advantages (or disadvantages, if any) for debian over ubuntu?

PeterPoopshit ,

Drivers and kernel modules. Debian with “proprietary drivers enabled” works on about as much stuff as Ubuntu without proprietary drivers enabled. I’ve never got it working without issues on a laptop. You’ll definitely be avoiding drivers that probably have government backdoors if you’re using Debian but it comes at a price.

Arch is ironically easier to deal with in this regard. To give credit where credit is due, Debian is very stable. Once you install it on a sever, it won’t break on its own. It may be harder to get all your hardware working but once you do, if you never upgrade you’ll never have to mess with it again.

ryapric ,

I rub Debian Sid/Unstable on both my desktop and my work laptop’s WSL2 VM. I use Debian for a lot of reasons, but I think one of the biggest is it’s the “lowest common denominator” for the entire tree base and beyond, and thusly works as much.

Some tool only offers Ubuntu install instructions? It’ll work.

Something needs to be installed from source? Any needed build tools are at most an apt install away.

“Help I can’t figure out why my systemd service isn’t starting in Arch”. Pending systemd version incompatibilities, there’s likely nothing Arch-specific about that problem.

Debian has always felt like, I dunno, Latin. So many other languages are based on it, or somehow arrived at the same way to word things despite it, and so once you understand it you can mentally tie all kinds of things together when you run into something in a different language (read: OS).

Klaymore ,
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NixOS all day: unimaginably stable, fun to mess around with, shared configs (including dotfiles) on every device, I really like it.

DerisionConsulting ,

Mint. I didn’t want to fuss around with my computer too much, I just wanted to come from form work, hit power and go. Like others here, 10 years ago I was down to tinker, but now I just want things to work.
After hopping between the plug-n-play distros, Mint worked the best with my config.

SquishyPandaDev ,
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Gentoo because it’s systemd free-ish. Also because it has good support for musl and clang.

AWizard_ATrueStar ,

Pop_os. I bought a system76 laptop and that is what came on it. It works well and is no fuss for me. Not a huge gnome fan but c’est la vie. Highly doubt a distro is going to center itself around something like xfce or enlightenment. I have distro hopped for years but for now I am happy with something I don’t have to tinker with all the time.

myersguy ,

Arch, Fedora, and Debian. Think I’m going to start phasing out Fedora though.

WereCat ,

Fedora KDE. I just really like everything about it.

ipacialsection ,
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Debian Stable. It doesn’t break with updates, it doesn’t break when I try to customize it, it has all the software you could ever want, and it just works. It’s robust, elegant, and free forever.

For most people I’d recommend a derivative like Mint, Q4OS, or SpiralLinux, since those smooth out a sometimes annoying setup process, but for me vanilla Debian is perfect.

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