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!

  • damn@lemmy.fmhy.ml
    20·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Atemu@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

      You don’t need any haskell knowledge to configure a NixOS system. It’s mostly just researching the right options and setting the desired values. Pretty simple. For more advanced stuff like custom modules, functional programming experience helps a lot but that’s not necessary for installing packages and enabling services.

      Documentation isn’t great but what it does have going for it is that it’s right in the place where you configure it: In the NixOS options. Wanna configure systemd-boot? Just search for it: https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=23.05&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=systemd-boot
      It’s self-documenting.

  • argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
    19·
    1 year ago

    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.)
    • Parsnip8904@beehaw.org
      2·
      1 year ago

      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?

  • Borgzilla@lemmy.ca
    7·
    1 year ago

    I use Debian with a patched version of motif window manager. The 90s never ended:

  • Meuzzin@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

    Garuuuuuda. Love it. Been running it for the past few years. The devs come off as assholes, but they’re actually just German;)

    • lhotze@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • nrab@sh.itjust.works
    61·
    1 year ago

    NixOS everywhere (except for one server which I have yet to migrate from Rocky to NixOS)

    • Pumpkin@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      1 year ago

      I asked in the nixOS community a few days ago, but since you mentioned you run nixOS on servers too, what’s been your experience of nixOS on a server?

  • dirac_field@lemmy.one
    5·
    1 year ago

    My laptop is on Manjaro and has been running flawlessly for years …such a great experience with gnome 40+

    My desktop is also on Manjaro, and things could not be more different. No Wayland, no animations in the gnome desktop, visual glitches since the last update …guess it doesn’t play well with Nvidia drivers. Anyone managing something decent with gnome+Nvidia?

    • .oOspaceshiptripOo. @lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’ve had success with pop_os with nvidia drivers. The only thing that it has issues with is some hw particularly the camera. I’m running steam without too many hitches after setting it up properly.

      • dirac_field@lemmy.one
        2·
        1 year ago

        Thanks, will try pop_os again – it’s been a while

        Ah never had camera problems… Anyways, keeps us busy I guess, haha

  • kamin@lemmy.kghorvath.com
    5·
    1 year ago

    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.