Linux

I stopped distro hopping pretty much after trying arch. I still love arch, but my new love is chimera Linux.

For servers I used to run Debian stable, but these days I'm pretty set on alpine.

On my desktops and laptops, I've been slowly migrating from Mint to EndeavourOS. Mint will always have a special place in my heart and I don't think I'll ever abandon it completely, but I've been falling in love with Endeavour lately. The Arch ecosystem had a bit of a learning curve, but once it clicked, it felt great. And then for servers, I've finally switched away from Ubuntu over to Debian. The familiar environment without all the bloat feels perfect to me.

Using Mint on my laptop for 3 years. I don't really like it. I want to switch on OpenBSD to taste pain and suffering (But Devuan is my plan B. I love Devuan :3)

Currently on Fedora. Pretty stable, but I really hate some parts:

• RocM just straight up doesn't work for some reason? this is really annoying for AI and Blender
• No h264/265 decode support in mesa by default 😬
• redhat is now owned by IBM
• dnf is very very slow (I don't mind this as much since I use the GUI software center and flatpak)

Otherwise

Very happy with my Arch setup since 3-4 years I believe. But my laptop that I use and update too irregularly to justify having Arch on it, probably needs an alternative :D

I enjoy Fedora. I can complain all day about Redhat being evil, but I haven't found a desktop distro that scratches the same itch, so I'm happy for the time being.

On the server side, Debian is perfect for me and I have zero qualms with it.

its preety good but im in the process of switching to nix because ive started encountering issues keeping track of packages and dependency hell (I use Arch btw)

Pretty happy. Debian works good. Rhel works good too.

The Toyota Camry and Lexus 300 of distros.

Debian is like my wife, I'm always faithful to her!

Ok, can you keep a secret? I have cheated on her a few times. I tried redhat before I met Debian, but didn't get very far because of circular dependencies (it was the 90s and package management was new). I never used another Linux and wanted to experiment a little!

I compiled Linux From Scratch, but it was too high maintenance. I tried Gentoo, but it's not something I'd put on a friend's computer, ya know what I mean? And yeah, I admit it, I had a fling with Debian's little sister, Ubuntu. But it was basically like Debian, but a little more sexy but also a little more flakey.

But in the end, I always go back to Debian. Solid, dependable, and low maintenance. Just upgraded to bookworm this weekend (because I'm always behind on dist upgrades LOL). Updated the apt sources ran recommended the apt commands with no issues. Only noticeable difference is the grub and login screens are a different shade of blue.

I regret ever having switched to the amateur distro that is Nobara bc I was too lazy to set up Feodra a 2nd time after the Grub fiasco Arch (and thus my daily driver back then EndeavourOS) had lol

Will switch the second OpenSuSu Slowroll becomes stable

Arch. ~3 y/o installation and I never had any significant problems with it. And yes, I have broke my installation a few times (I think only 2 times) but that is totally my fault (changing repositories, downgrading packages, changing critical system files, etc) and not something that would apply for every arch user.

Fedora. Super stable, super smooth. Used the thinkpad + fedora combo for over 10 years and will use it for 10 more.

I'm on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and I'm not quite satisfied, but I think it's a "me" problem. The distro is fine. It's great! It has practically all the things I was looking for in a distro when I came back to Linux. I have had no major issues that I can recall and updates have never broken anything. The only small nag I have is that Zypper sometimes wants to install patterns that I never installed to begin with when updating, but there are ways around that. I'm just annoyed that that's the default behavior.

But I'm not happy. I'm constantly weighing my options and thinking of different distros/DEs and I don't know why. The current setup serves me wonderfully but it's not perfect, what ever that means. I think I'm looking for a combination of attributes that doesn't exist, possibly can't exist. TW and maybe Debian sid get the closest and I try to tell myself that's good enough, but there's always this feeling of dissatisfaction I can't quite shake and it's annoying.

On my phone I run postmarketOS and on my Raspberry Pi I have Raspbian and those are great.

I wouldn't say I'm 100% happy with NixOS, but there is no going back at this point.

I run Kinoite on my Laptop and Silverblue on my desktop. After years of "I use arch, BTW", I decided I needed something that Just Works; and let me tell you, Fedora has not failed to impress.

I run Debian with gnome, headless and raspi and love it.

Used Ubuntu for years, also had a good time and still respect the project even though it deviated from my needs.

Sometimes I’ll boot up something new just to poke around but I’m happy sticking with Debian for the time being.

I like it but Wayland has given me nothing but issues

Love Gentoo. Being using it for 20+ years and never looked back.

Using also CentOS for work, and would switch to Gentoo if I could.

Really, gentoo for everything (from laptop to headless server), but not for where a rolling release distro is not suitable (configuration control and such needs).

For me Debian is living the purpose I gave it, resisting me messing around or at least being easy for me to fix.

I currently use endeavourOS and I am happy with it, due to it being "just Arch with some wallpapers and optional extras".

I am open for more though, even if it's just for trying out :)

I'm super happy with Nobara. As a beginner its got everything I need without feeling too limiting

I'm using Manjaro for my desktop and laptop. If I had to pick a new distro today, I'd likely give EndeavourOS a try. But Manjaro has been working well for me for a several years now, does everything I want with little drama, and issues have been few. So I'm a happy camper and I'll keep on using it.

I have a home server that has been running Debian Stable since the mid-2000's or so. It just chugs right along, so complaints are few. Though occasionally having to deal with the old versions of some of the packages on it can be annoying.

I use Ubuntu at work. No issues with it.