I use ArchLinux BTW, because
- It’s very minimal, no bloatware
- AUR
3. I feel superior - It just works™*
macOS on my laptop, windows on my PC. Also got a few servers running linux though.
Pop_OS. It’s the most polished Linux distro I’ve found and has nice keyboard workflows in the GUI.
I have Pop! On my system76 laptop. It’s alright, but I think i prefer Linux Mint. Probably just because I’m more familiar with it, and gnome 3 still irks me.
Agreed! They are slowly and steadily moving away from Gnome. https://blog.system76.com/post/more-on-cosmic-de-to-kick-off-2023 To be honest, it was kind of buggy last summer but has slowly gotten faster and better handling multiple monitors with proportionate scaling (my biggest gripe).
I currently use fedora. I am absolutely fine with Ubuntu, but the setup process is a bit too much for me, as I prefer flatpak and vanilla gnome, so it takes a bit of work for Ubuntu to get there. Also I feel like ubuntu use a different gui for different purpose, it is a bit annoying (for example, there are three app, one update apt, one flatpak, one drivers.) It is not a big deal, but a bit annoying.
Mostly all I need is just a stable os that I can work in, and I don’t really want to mess with my os. So I don’t choose more cutting-edge/interesting distros like suse, arch, or Nix.
There are also distros like pop and mint, but they don’t support gnome well, and I haven’t get into the habit of cosmos or cinnamon.
I use Gentoo on my desktop/file server. I like the freedom to set up things EXACTLY how I want them. Compile times are no worry with a Ryzen 5700x and I do major updates overnight.
I use FreeBSD on my laptop. It is super stable, resource efficient and soooo much more neat and organized than Linux. Core software does not change every other year and everything feels right at home. I highly recommended giving it a shot if you haven’t already.
i am afraid of taking the step towards bsd… 1st: I don’t know if I want/need freebsd or openbsd and it scares me to learn an entire new system. I am pretty happy with linux for now, but on the long run it might be a viable option - do you have any good guidance or recommendations for bsd?
I would recommend starting with FreeBSD. They have a handbook on their website that explains everything you would need to know to get set up and get an idea about how everything works. You could kinda compare it to the Arch wiki.
A vast majority of things will be very familiar to you as a linux user and the repos/ports have almost anything you could need. A big difference is going to be the init system. It is more like Open-RC and runit compared to SystemD. It is based on scripts and very easy to use when you get the hang of it.
The most obvious drawback is the lack of support for 802.11ac (it is in the works and you can use something called wifibox to use linux wifi drivers).
Windows 11 unfortunately, for two reasons:
- I was a fool and bought forza horizon 5 on the Microsoft store instead of steam, so I’m not able to run it on Linux at all. I’m also not going to buy it twice since it ain’t cheap.
- VR support on linux is… patchy. It’s ok if you’re using a Vice or Index, but I’m using a 1st Oculus Quest, so while ALVR exists, it’s not perfect. I do intend on jumping to linux when FH6 domes out and I’ve relaxed the oculus, though.
We’re an all-linux household.
- Endeavoros on my gaming desktop
- Garuda on my Framework laptop
- Kubuntu on my partner’s Framework laptop
- Endeavoros on my server. Plus a handful of Pis and appliances.
I’m just glad there’s someone else in this world who uses garuda! Easily my favorite OS.
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I used to use Linux, but Windows just has better support for most apps and drivers so currently Windows 10. I doubt I’ll ever switch to Windows 11. It seems pretty iffy with the lack of customization and ads appearing in the folder menus.
NixOS, because all of the config in my system is declared in a few files on GitHub and it has a huge package repo.
Also it has all of the other advantages of a Linux distro, like privacy, speed and customisability.
Fedora! Have been super not a fan of Windows for years now so I avoid it hardcore when I can.
Linux in general is a lot easier to set up programming environments on, and also just generally it’s a lot more flexible when it comes to customization, which is definitely important when you’re a big picky bitchbaby like I am.
Fedora specifically I like because there’s something I just really like about RHEL-related distros (to the point that i use Rocky Linux on my server also). They feel really polished and dnf is probably my favourite package manager of all the ones I’ve tried so far. I do have a few issues with it, and I miss having access to the AUR when I used various Arch-baseds over the years, but all in all I’m very happy with it and I don’t see myself switching distros for desktop use any time soon.
I mostly use Arch Linux, as the customizability and package selection is excellent.
On the rare occasion I need to use a piece of software that doesn’t play nicely with Linux (even with Wine/Proton), I boot up onto a secondary drive that has Windows 10 installed on it.Linux because it runs fast and does what I need it to.
As a non technical user that has switched to Ubuntu from Windows, Linux is light years ahead. Any os without a decent package manager like apt or flatpak is unusable for me and that’s without mentioning the ads…
KDE Neon. It does everything I expect an OS to do and stays out of my way…
Windows, works for everything I need and never had any reason to change to another OS.
