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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago

I use Arch btw.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (7 children)

On Lemmy most will say Linux.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed in my case.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

On Lemmy most will say Linux.

Ik i dont wanna go back to reddit so yeah

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, looking at the comments I'm not so sure about that anymore... more like Linux as well.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Windows 11

I'm one of the few people who genuinely thinks it's a good OS despite MS' shenanigans

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Blocked and reported /s

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I just get bothered that even on very modern tech my CPU is under load even when idle in Win11 such that the fan is spooling up. I'm convinced they're sneaking distributed AI compute into personal PCs. Doesn't happen on my Linux install.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Manjaro Linux. It has treated me well for two years. (Yes, I know about the controversy, I have had no problems with the distro for the last two years).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Same here, sometimes I feel actual shame, which is ridiculous, but it works for me and hasn't let me down so far in the past years

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I have used Manjaro at work and on personal devices for maybe 10 years and it has served me well. When I got a new computer this year, I saw many recommending EndeavourOS instead, so I decided to use that instead. I don't understand the controversy to be honest ... endeavour is a-ok, but Manjaro was more stable imho, and if I have to do it again I might go back to Manjaro.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Everything runs Debian

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

EndeavourOS at home, Ubuntu at work

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I use Windows 3.1

Because of the limitations, I hired someone to create a program that yells letters and characters individually one by one on a text based browser.
It may sound tedious but I refuse to upgrade explanation mark explanation mark explanation mark

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

itt: the question linux users love

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Ubuntu at work, Mint on my laptop, Win10 and Debian on my pc. I need to upgrade to Win11 at some point but I guess I'll wait until next year for that.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Debian. I distro-hopped a lot but I always return to it. It's like a kit you can turn into anything you want. As stable, bleeding edge, minimal or full-featured as you want, for all kinds of devices, with great third-party support and documentation.

Currently I run a minimal, stable Gnome system with a newer kernel from backports and Flatpaks for my apps.
The only thing it isn't good at is immutability and filesystem snapshots. Both are possible to set up, but it's an involved process, and I'd rather depend on regular backups.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Work PC: Windows 11 (because that’s what was issued to me).

Home media / automation server: Ubuntu (latest stable distro).

Personal laptop: Mac OS Sonoma (I’ve always used Mac for personal computing. It’s comfortable).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Fedora Linux Workstation.

It’s great for almost everything. The only thing I’m not super happy with is the file manager, Nautilus. Its WebDAV support is too buggy.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Win 11 because I'm too lazy to migrate to Mint.

My plan is to switch on the next upgrade at the latest, but that might be a few years.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (6 children)

At the risk of sounding like a meme... Arch on my desktop and laptop, Windows 11 on my home server/PC I play games with anti-Linux anticheat.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Yet another Arch, btw.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

So, a bit of a list...

Personal desktop: endeavour, though I may go back to Debian. I've been using Debian for so long that nothing else feels right, that's a me thing. Endeavour is pretty great.

Work laptop: Windows 11 (stripped down since I have admin rights), unavoidable do to some software I need to run sometimes.

Testing/builds for iOS: M2 Mac Mini

Servers: proxmox, running windows VMs for software I need for work I can rdp into, various Debian LXC's, some Oracle, RHEL, and Debian for work stuff, and occasionally random distros I want to check out.

Edit: Forgot one unique, a 13ish year old Mac mini I picked up for free (bound for recycling) that's just a glorified way to run gcompris for my kids. Straight Debian stable.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Pop! It's treated me well for over a year now.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I use openSUSE as a system and then your usual programs like firefox, steam, vlc, strawberry, discord (sadly), freetube, etc.

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Mint for my PC and Windows reluctantly for my work PC.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Manjaro on my gaming PC, Xubuntu on a couple of lab PCs, Haiku on a very old PC, windows 11 at work with Xubuntu on a VM.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Linux Mint 21 LMDE on both personal and work laptop.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Fedora 40 KDE

Edit: fixed version, added DE

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Fedora Plasma Spin on my gaming rig. Wife’s laptop is MacOS. Used to run EndeavourOS, and I mostly loved it, but I trust the security and stability of Fedora a bit more after some experience with an Arch base.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

OpenSUSE on my desktop, Fedora Silverblue and OpenBSD on my laptop

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Desktop: pop!_os

Laptop: linux mint lmde6

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

ElementaryOS

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

EndeavourOS

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