Debian on desktop, Debian on server, Debian on my VMs and Debian on my containers.

I used to use Fedora and CentOS, then Fedora and Alma Linux but since RH decided to be evil I decided to go full community distro.

Debian has actually gotten really usable lately. Bookworm is fantastic and whenever I want a newer version of something I use Flatpak knowing that the base below is rock solid.

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.

I’m on OpenSuse Tumbleweed right now.

I got tired of updating version numbers on Mint.

As a side note, just plugged in a years-old random printer/scanner combo my roommate had been trying to find driver’s for, for hours, on his windows machine. It just worked immediately in Linux, didn’t need to download anything. Suck it, printer!

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

NixOS. I’ve been running Linux since Slackware 1.0, since then have run Debian, LFS, RedHat, CentOS, Gentoo, Arch and Ubuntu. After years of Ubuntu I discovered NixOS and after diving deep into it, have never been happier with a distro. All of my machines and dot files are in a straightforward single language in a git repo. The mutable parts of all my applications are nicely isolated and backed up and I can make changes to my systems fearlessly. It has a very steep learning curve, but it’s amazing.

Mint, because I’m a basic bitch.

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).

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.

NixOS

Whenever my system is in an incorrect shape, I can not only roll back to a previous one, I can go back several updates ago. But an update on NixOS could be a system package installation or a settings change.

My system settings are all in two files, both in git. There’s also the versions of all of my packages that are installed into the store, each with versioned dependencies, but not globally installed so they don’t conflict with each other. This is why I can have a rolling system using the stable wine version.

I also found out packaging is not so difficult so I’ve actually successfully packaged some of the software I use

arch because it was more viable of a rolling release when i installed it 10 years ago

I might try other distros but I always come back to Debian.

I’ve been a Linux user for a very long time. Personally, I’m currently using Mint because I don’t want to fuss with it. Seems like one of the few distros that doesn’t require a lot of effort.

Back in the day when Slackware was still new, I had the time (and patience) to compile my own drivers and kernels. Now I just want to do what I need to do and get on with my life.

I use Arch, btw. And PopOS and NixOS.

I’m still a pretty new Linux user.

Been running EndeavourOS for over 2 months because it’s the distro I’ve had the least amount of problems with.

I ran PopOS for 3 weeks before but experienced a lot of audio issues and had my install break to a point I couldn’t recover it. Glad I gave Linux a 2nd try after that, I haven’t had to switch to my Windows drive a single time since installing Endeavour.

Work - openSUSE Leap, since it is stable and has snapshots out of the box
Home - Arch Linux since it’s great for gaming