My goto is Ubuntu. Fallback is Centos. Have eyed Debian but never touched it.
Learning and getting comfortable with FreeBSD as I get time now, trying a few things out and troubleshooting. I hear BSD is the future and I have had my head in the dirt too long maybe.
Daily driver at home: EndeavourOS w/ KDE Plasma unstable (bc I'm an unstable person so a rolling Arch-based distro with a sweet Calamares installer that's got a purple haze as its primary color theme, plus Konqi fits me perfectly).
Debian 12 testing on the majority of my LEStuff. SSH from home base's Yakuake so no DE needed. I'm very used to Granddad Debian. Rarely breaks. Testing is still pretty freakin' stable and feels like a rolling release since I kind of guess it is. Topgrade ftw on all these semi-idlers.
Just put Fedora Server 34 (GASP!) on a VPS I chose to kill because the storage bloated and I'm really not sure why nor do I care since backups were invented and used. Going through the process of getting 34 up to 41 (is that the current one?) on that one. The old adage about seven years of a dog's life equaling one year of a human's life is based on some longevity numbers somewhere but isn't carved into stone. Your mileage, the doggo's, and the human's may all vary, and probably will.
One dedi (or vdedi?) I'm renting runs Proxmox 8-whatever. Can't remember if that was an iso install on bare metal or on top of Debian. I'm still learning THAT. Proxmox backup server (and client) are INSANELY awesome stuff. Fast as a Cheetah.
One colo-to-own dedi also runs PVE and PBS on its bare metal.
The newest member to my computer family, a Dell Poweredge r710 heating up my computer room now (it's not THAT loud - fan noise is kind of like white noise), FINALLY just got AlmaLinux 9.5 with Gnome put on it with Ventoy helping get everything there. I'm so tempted to put Plasma on it but I have to keep reminding myself that I need to just slow down, soak in the fact that it's running an OS WITH internet connectivity (that's NOT Windows Server 2008 R2), and meditate on the Beastie Boys' wise words of wisdom to just let it flow, let myself go, slow and low, that is the tempo.
@Equitia said:
On all my PC's I use Arch, and kind of varies, I like KDE plasma, but I also use Hyprland on rare occasions. (I'd recommend KDE for the ease of use.)
Do you have problems with Arch's stability because it's a rolling release?
@Equitia said:
On all my PC's I use Arch, and kind of varies, I like KDE plasma, but I also use Hyprland on rare occasions. (I'd recommend KDE for the ease of use.)
Do you have problems with Arch's stability because it's a rolling release?
Well, actually, on my Laptop, none at all, even with an Nvidia GPU it works fine, on my Desktop, its a whole story, my Wayland is broken on my desktop, and it has been for a long time, and no update seems to fix it yet. So I use X11.
So moral of the story, if you're lucky you face less issues, if you're unlucky, you may face issues. But most of the time it works flawlessly.
I want to do a tiling window manager but haven't put in the effort to learn on yet.
If you're familiar with vim, then I guess it willl take less than 5 minutes to learn the basics of i3-wm.
Sadly i3-wm doesn't support wayland yet, while its counterpart sway has slight differences compared with i3-wm, which I find inconvenient.
I prefer minimal/get-out-of-my-way distros, currently Arch if you're into the systemd paradigm, Alpine if not (and to answer the rolling release distro stability question you asked somebody upthread, I've been using Arch as the daily driver for years, and it's been the most stable/just-works distro I know (having experience with openSUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, Fedora)).
I can't stand DEs, just a simple window manager for me.
I also use OpenBSD on servers (which is not a Linux distro, but other responses mention BSDs, too, so here goes).
@hobofl said:
I can't stand DEs, just a simple window manager for me.
which wm?
I've used XMonad a lot, which is really overkill for my humble needs, but I usually end up having Haskell installed anyway.
Any tiling WM with a few customizable keyboard shortcuts would work I suppose.
@hornet said:
Wasn't the project dead, at least for quite some time?
IIRC they released version 13 (based on debian 12) on dec 2023. But since they moved the support forum to discord I don't follow their updates anymore.
I don't understand why peoples moving their support forum/docs to discord (not indexable by search engine, hard to follow etc.).
Isn't that for smartphones & tablets as Wikipedia is saying?..
For me:
Debian/Ubuntu + XFCE/LXDE. I find Debian to be better than Ubuntu in terms of maintenance (no Ubuntu Pro crap for LTS), and LXDE to be faster than XFCE. I used RDP to remote connect to the Desktop only for a short while, since I discovered X2GO~ which is better because it gives me a whole lot more image parameters than RDP!
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Fedora and Cinnamon generally. Sometimes KDE.
Debian + Cinnamon
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FreeBSD + MATE
debian + xfce
Debian and ssh! 🍉
Ubuntu + fvwm3 + xfce panel + xfce terminal
Windows.
Just joking.
Ubuntu + Gnome
Slackware + Gnome, Mint, Windows, Kali, Custom Slackware + Gnome
The Yeti has left the building.
From installing slackware with 3 1/2 disks with fvwm, gone through a LOT to finally settle on Kubuntu vanilla (or KDE Neon) for about 10 years now.
My goto is Ubuntu. Fallback is Centos. Have eyed Debian but never touched it.
Learning and getting comfortable with FreeBSD as I get time now, trying a few things out and troubleshooting. I hear BSD is the future and I have had my head in the dirt too long maybe.
I moved all my websites to Carrd, and cancelled all my idlers.
Save the earth, don't idle.
tl;dr: A little bit of everything.
Daily driver at home: EndeavourOS w/ KDE Plasma unstable (bc I'm an unstable person so a rolling Arch-based distro with a sweet Calamares installer that's got a purple haze as its primary color theme, plus Konqi fits me perfectly).
Debian 12 testing on the majority of my LEStuff. SSH from home base's Yakuake so no DE needed. I'm very used to Granddad Debian. Rarely breaks. Testing is still pretty freakin' stable and feels like a rolling release since I kind of guess it is. Topgrade ftw on all these semi-idlers.
Just put Fedora Server 34 (GASP!) on a VPS I chose to kill because the storage bloated and I'm really not sure why nor do I care since backups were invented and used. Going through the process of getting 34 up to 41 (is that the current one?) on that one. The old adage about seven years of a dog's life equaling one year of a human's life is based on some longevity numbers somewhere but isn't carved into stone. Your mileage, the doggo's, and the human's may all vary, and probably will.
One dedi (or vdedi?) I'm renting runs Proxmox 8-whatever. Can't remember if that was an iso install on bare metal or on top of Debian. I'm still learning THAT. Proxmox backup server (and client) are INSANELY awesome stuff. Fast as a Cheetah.
One colo-to-own dedi also runs PVE and PBS on its bare metal.
The newest member to my computer family, a Dell Poweredge r710 heating up my computer room now (it's not THAT loud - fan noise is kind of like white noise), FINALLY just got AlmaLinux 9.5 with Gnome put on it with Ventoy helping get everything there. I'm so tempted to put Plasma on it but I have to keep reminding myself that I need to just slow down, soak in the fact that it's running an OS WITH internet connectivity (that's NOT Windows Server 2008 R2), and meditate on the Beastie Boys' wise words of wisdom to just let it flow, let myself go, slow and low, that is the tempo.
Privacy is a human right.
Debian + LXDE
Debian + i3
I want to do a tiling window manager but haven't put in the effort to learn on yet.
YetiWindows!!!
The Yeti has left the building.
gentoo + ssh
Was opensuse + KDE but there's no mirror near me. So i migrated to Arch + KDE
What, no poll?
Mostly Debian; in case of GUI a preference for QT based DE's.
Ubuntu + MATE
Mobian + Phosh
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On all my PC's I use Arch, and kind of varies, I like KDE plasma, but I also use Hyprland on rare occasions. (I'd recommend KDE for the ease of use.)
Do you have problems with Arch's stability because it's a rolling release?
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Well, actually, on my Laptop, none at all, even with an Nvidia GPU it works fine, on my Desktop, its a whole story, my Wayland is broken on my desktop, and it has been for a long time, and no update seems to fix it yet. So I use X11.
So moral of the story, if you're lucky you face less issues, if you're unlucky, you may face issues. But most of the time it works flawlessly.
If you're familiar with vim, then I guess it willl take less than 5 minutes to learn the basics of i3-wm.
Sadly i3-wm doesn't support wayland yet, while its counterpart sway has slight differences compared with i3-wm, which I find inconvenient.
MicroLXC is lovable.
Fedora + Gnome.
simple, pleasant, efficient, and up-to-date.
Linux Min + XFCE
Arch + Hyprland
Void + XFCE
NixOS + KDE
Using Win 11 now, I think I don't belong here.
Back then when using Linux for daily use, Ubuntu + MATE.
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What device are you using that on?
We have PinePhone A64 3GB.
It comes out of the closest, maybe twice a year.
https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/PINE64/PinePhone
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Arch hyprland
I prefer minimal/get-out-of-my-way distros, currently Arch if you're into the systemd paradigm, Alpine if not (and to answer the rolling release distro stability question you asked somebody upthread, I've been using Arch as the daily driver for years, and it's been the most stable/just-works distro I know (having experience with openSUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, Fedora)).
I can't stand DEs, just a simple window manager for me.
I also use OpenBSD on servers (which is not a Linux distro, but other responses mention BSDs, too, so here goes).
Am I boring for enjoying Ubuntu for decades?
I moved all my websites to Carrd, and cancelled all my idlers.
Save the earth, don't idle.
which wm?
I've used XMonad a lot, which is really overkill for my humble needs, but I usually end up having Haskell installed anyway.
Any tiling WM with a few customizable keyboard shortcuts would work I suppose.
Debian + XFCE
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I like Cinnamon desktop.
Used XFCE and GNOME for a while, really gave 'em a chance, but they just weren't as nice for me.
Mint is my favourite distro, but I also like antiX because it runs on very low end computers and is the official commie distro!
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ZorinOS + default DE (it's Gnome iirc)
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After they added snaps yes , use linux mint
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NixOS + hyprland on my main machine
Win 10 on my work machine (can't choose)
NixOS with no graphical systems on VPSs
Proxmox on home dedi.
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wattOS or Linux Lite
Wasn't the project dead, at least for quite some time?
Debian + KDE Plasma on my main desktop.
A shiny Mac for my other needs.
Artix + SwayWM
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IIRC they released version 13 (based on debian 12) on dec 2023. But since they moved the support forum to discord I don't follow their updates anymore.
I don't understand why peoples moving their support forum/docs to discord (not indexable by search engine, hard to follow etc.).
The OS itself is pretty lightweight tho NGL
The answers are too diverse to do a poll~
Isn't that for smartphones & tablets as Wikipedia is saying?..
For me:
Debian/Ubuntu + XFCE/LXDE. I find Debian to be better than Ubuntu in terms of maintenance (no Ubuntu Pro crap for LTS), and LXDE to be faster than XFCE. I used RDP to remote connect to the Desktop only for a short while, since I discovered X2GO~ which is better because it gives me a whole lot more image parameters than RDP!
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Correct, this runs on a smartphone:
https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/comment/202712/#Comment_202712
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Pro or Core version ? Is there any difference except looks?
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