Linux

I've used Fedora for years and it is solid. I also use Debian, Linux Mint and Pop OS

Super happy. POP OS has been entirely pain free since I installed it and has a great looming future with COSMIC DE!

I have Void running on my desktop, server, laptop, and media center. Then my NAS and router are running versions of FreeBSD (TrueNAS, Opnsense). Not really looking to change, so pretty happy overall.

Started using Endeavour OS a few years back. Not necessarily the most stable, but I think my current install is the longest running single install I've ever had. Even if I screw something up and it won't boot I've been able to recover without a reinstall.

I've been using EndeavourOS for a few years now, which is effectively a "good sane defaults" Arch out of the box. I've attempted to use numerous distros in between (including plain Arch) but there's always something I feel is missing or just isn't right (for me).

Been using Debian stable again this year, but this time in a VM (Windows host. I know, I know.)

I'm very happy with it. I tried other distros but kept coming back to Debian.

Fedora 40 KDE. I like it. Longest I have been on the same distro in years.

Recently tried Kubuntu. It was able to successfully connect to my docking station with double 4k monitors connected too, which some other distros failed at. So pretty happy with that I suppose.

All in all, I still find most distros to be hit and miss with issues. There's always something that makes it meh. Like missing features or inconveniences.

Sometimes I think the Linux community should try to consolidate more to focus on a few well-working distros rather than the large amount of distros that are currently there, each with their own set of issues.

I think how happy I am depends on what I am comparing it too.

Compared to Windows? I am very happy with Mint since thus far everything I need works, and I can even play some games.

Compared to my dream distro which doesn't exist. Not as happy. Since it works, but asks me to use the terminal more than I want to.

Arch + i3wm on my work laptop and I love it. Super functional.

I got a refresh/new laptop and they put Ubuntu on it. Really miss Arch's repos & package manager. Probably will switch it at some point.

Vanilla Arch w/ KDE plasma (I know)

It was a bit of a struggle at first but that's what I signed up for. Very happy with the finished result.

So far I haven't had any major issues whatsoever with MX running KDE, other than Vbox being the absolute worst to attempt to get working (which I still can't). Otherwise, works fine enough for what I need.

I use OpenBSD on my prod machine and vps, and that's serving me very well (other than suspend and usb expansions cards being buggy on my framework laptop (latter might be hardware issues))

I have the default SteamOS on my steam deck; I'm not a fan of its immutable filesystem paradigm and not shipping with any real package manager besides flatpak, so I'm thinking of putting Void Linux on it at some point.

My phone runs PostmarketOS (alpine based mobile OS); which is adding support for systemd and making it default for phosh, kde and gnome installations; which I'm disappointed about to say the least. openrc will still be supported, but given it's no longer the default (and requires recompilation to change), it's probably taking a backseat to systemd. openrc will still ship by default on sxmo, but I'm ready to find an alternative at this point. Maybe I should look into trying to port OpenBSD to the pinephone again, as much as a dream as that seems like. Looks like there's also been some effort put into porting Void Linux to the pinephone, so I'll check that out.

Gosh that's a little personal, isn't it?

I'm unhappy that after an update gdm has a logo of the distro I'm using. I don't want people to be able to see what distro it is, that way I don't get the fun of telling everyone that I use arch btw.

No other issues.

Bluefin, very happy. Nice toys on top of an atomic Silverblue base. Love the concept.

I’m still a beginner but Mint Cinnamon has treated me well, as has my Debian server.

Don’t see any reason to test anything else as long as it works this well. Nor do I have time after the kids came either…

@Blaze
100% of my venomlinux river system

Somewhat happy with NixOS. Documentation is still abysmal but it's the most stable yet up to date distro I've used so far.

I wish the community were better and the decision-making less top down and anarchist at the same time, but there's maybe a fork in the making (Auxolotl) that I'm keeping an eye on. Maybe it'll pop up in phoronix or the nix community forums once it's stable, then it might be worth switching to.

Anti Commercial-AI license

OK-ish. I use Manjaro. It's a pretty good idea to read Announcements before updating: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/announcements/

It may have instructions on how to update without borking your system. For example, the February update broke Plymouth, causing systems using it to be unbootable. Sort of. It would actually boot, just to a black screen. On one of the threads someone reported being able to SSH into his PC just fine.

Or the May update bringing Plasma 6 to stable. The recommendation was to reset Plasma to defaults, log out, stop SDDM and update from TTY. I tested doing exact opposite of that in VM, and it still went fine, except for missing icons, but still a good idea just to be safe.

But I had some other problems too.

February update: Booting to black screen. I found threads mentioning the same stuff for this update. Cool. "Remove Plymouth or just don't use splash". I... already disabled splash (and quiet to make boot-up cooler).
Fix: Updating Linux 5.15 LTS to 6.6 LTS. Something changed in 5.15 making it break on my laptop, I guess. I couldn't even get to TTY without nomodeset.
Furthermore, the animations became choppy after resuming from sleep.

May update: Turning on Bluetooth may cause system crash. It would show as "ON", but actually be inactive while shoving already paired devices. This couldn't be reversed. Logging out and back in would lead to only the welcome screen and yakuake showing up. Trying to reboot from both yakuake and plain TTY would stop mid-way. After issuing reboot, the system would be mostly dead, but still kinda running. Linux still responded to magic SysRq.
Fix: Upgrading Linux 6.6 LTS to 6.9.

So, I can deal with it, and it definitely taught me to use Timeshift. Oh, and the brightness buttons sometimes stop working.

Happy, Fedora Kinoite uBlue-main

In the process of making my own variant, but that is quite some effort

Fedora fees like a nice and tightly integrated distro. I'm no apple fan but I can appreciate consistent UX, I feel like Fedora for now is the closest to that level of experience, whilst pioneering in desktop-centric technologies.

I have this looming fear that IBM will somehow fuck everything over someday, but as far as I understand, the Fedora project still operates with the same level of autonomy as they did pre-aquisition.

I'm using Bazzite for games and I like it so much I started moving homelab machines to Fedora IoT.

I'm still rocking my 2011 Arch install, immediately ended my distro hopping for over a decade and still going strong.

Since I installed Arch 14 years ago, I've never looked back. I guess I'm happy with it!

I’ve been using NixOS for the past few months and it’s been great. Before NixOS I was using Fedora Silverblue so immutable distros aren’t a new thing to me. I like that NixOS has a configuration I can keep backed up. I can copy different options from my desktop to laptop easily. I’m still learning about flakes and the nix language to be able to do more advanced things, but overall NixOS is a great distro if you want something you can configure once and be done.

I'm on Fedora Silverblue and I'm pretty sure my distro-hopping days are over. After 20 years of tinkering I really like an OS that requires literally no maintenance and basically just disappears in the background.

Switched from Kubuntu to Mint + KDE last week. Very happy indeed.

Surprised I don't see any Fedoras on here yet. Very happy on Fedora KDE.