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
    19·
    2 years 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·
      2 years 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
    18·
    2 years 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
      3·
      2 years 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
    9·
    2 years ago

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

    • chadac@beehaw.org
      2·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • WatTyler@lemmy.sdf.org
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • lhotze@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      2 years 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
    71·
    2 years ago

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

    • Pumpkin@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      2 years 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?

  • Too Lazy Didn't Name@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 years ago

    Kubuntu for me. Ive been an on again off again user of either Ubuntu or kubuntu for over a decade now, but that might have to change here soon. The integration of snap is driving me insane, so I’ve been looking into arch distros recently

    • Biorix@lemmy.fmhy.ml
      2·
      2 years ago

      Same for me I really like KDE and their tools

      I recently try to go with fedora KDE but Ubuntu and Red Hat is the only distro supported by Nvidia dockers toolbox

    • constantokra@lemmy.one
      1·
      2 years ago

      You might want to try pop. It’s based on Ubuntu, so everything is where you’d expect, but as yet doesn’t come with snapd installed. I was irritated to find out the other day that apt installing chromium did try to install a snap, but it was easy enough to cancel and pop’s excellent GUI package manager got me a flatpak instead. If you’re not ready to hop over to Debian, which is what I use on my servers because of snaps, Pop os is worth a shot.