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!
I was a distro hopper once, then I saw the light of NixOS…
Tell me about it…
The only reason I might, in the distant future, ever consider changing again is this project, which hopefully would be something between NixOS and Qubes. But that is far in the future and not even that certain.
I use Debian with a patched version of motif window manager. The 90s never ended:
NixOS everywhere (except for one server which I have yet to migrate from Rocky to NixOS)
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.)
Ubuntu for life. Unpopular opinion i know, please don’t stone.
When you take Pop_OS! into account?
umm it’s literally the most popular distro
arch
btw
same, its pretty solid for a meme os. For anything else I usually use Debian.
Does SteamOS count? My steam deck is my current “Linux” machine.
Yes! My coworker does this and I think it’s pretty cool.
Been using NixOS for a couple months. It’s gotten easier to configure and change because of it, and new computers are super easy to setup because I can just change/apply the config and system wide changes will apply with one command!
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 have a few dozen computers and most run Pop!_OS.
What’s your second most commonly used distro?
Fedora, because it just works and it ships recent software versions.
I also like Fedora Silverblue, and projects like ublue are very interesting in my opinion.
Could you explain what you find interesting about Silverblue ?
Fedora is truly awesome project! ❤️
Garuuuuuda. Love it. Been running it for the past few years. The devs come off as assholes, but they’re actually just German;)
NixOS. Declarative config with opt-in state is awesome.
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.
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.
Arch, Debian, NixOS, Fedora Silverblue, Raspbian, GrapheneOS[Android]
NixOS. Declarative reproducible immutable systems are the future.
