What distro(s) do you use?

argv_minus_one, 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.)

ironveil, 2 years ago

Arch on everything, including servers. It’s just so easy to install everything via the AUR & configure everything easily. Plus the wiki is amazing. Although it is a pain to setup sometimes

nrab, 2 years ago

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

scarrexx, 2 years ago

Ubuntu for life. Unpopular opinion i know, please don’t stone.

Eufalconimorph, 2 years ago

NixOS. Declarative config with opt-in state is awesome.

WatTyler, 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.

chadac, 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.

yaniv, 1 year ago

Ubuntu LTS, since 08.04.

wrott, 1 year ago

Debian 12 for now is a great investment for the next 5 years, tho.