If you have been using Linux for +10 years, what are you using now?
Been using Linux for over a decade, and last few years Ubuntu (on desktops/laptops), plus Debian on servers, but been looking to switch to something less “Canonical”-y for a long time (since the Amazon search fiasco, pretty much).
Appreciate recommendations or just an interesting discussion about people’s experiences, there are no wrong answers.
Edit: Thanks for the lots of interesting answers and discussions. I will try a few of the suggestions in a VM.
I’ve been using Linux for over 20 years. My first distro was Mandrake. I’ve always cime back to that line od distros.
I’m currently using Mageia on my laptop and gaming PC. I can’t think of anything I haven’t been able to run. My daughter uses the gaming PC to game and do school work. It’s a great distro with little headache.
I also Ubuntu Studio for recording music, playing electric drums, music productuon, and also gaming. I also have some hime automation set up on it.
Arch since 2018, mint for a few years before that, Ubuntu from 2008-2014
Using Arch for almost a decade now. Started with Ubuntu, fedora, mint but finally landed on arch. But am thinking about switching to gentoo; arch has gone too mainstream that im afraid it might be plagued with “age verification” virus
Switched from Windows in 2002, did FreeBSD -> Gentoo -> Ubuntu -> Arch. Finally switched to NixOS in 2012 and never looked back.
The builtin isolation meant I never actually got properly acquainted with Docker until I switched jobs and had to use it.
Debian. I like my computer to work.
Debian for work and my home machines that I don’t need to be the latest and greatest (nas, media centee).
Arch on personal, éess implrtant machines
On my server I run Ubuntu and on my desktop I’m running Linux mint because it just fucking works and I don’t got to mess with shit.
i used to use debian heavily in the past, but switched to ubuntu because of kkkernel liveeeeeee patching.
now that i have to switch back because of age verification; i find myself wishing that debian has live patching so i can go back to it.
I’ve been using Linux for more than 20+
First distro: Slackware, then Debian for many years, finally Fedora, since 2014, very happy user.
What I like in Fedora: the 6 months release provides bleeding edge experience without compromising stability.
Debian Trixie headless on my router/server raspberry pi and NixOs on my laptop.
However I’m planning to switch from Nix this summer since one of the maintainers of NixOs is the one which added age verification to systemd, still haven’t decided on which Os I’ll switch to probably Devuan os but may give Alpine a shot since it’s more stable than Arch btw, so I’ll just be ricing and distro hopping this summer until I pick my new favorite again.
Desktop: Pop!_OS 24.04 (thinking of rolling back to Gnome as cosmic is too rough around the edges still)
Servers: Ubuntu Server 24.04.4
Containers: Debian Trixie or specific images for the project I’m working on
I upgraded from 22 to 24 as well. Cosmic is nice and can be used as a daily driver, but not quite there for a power user. I’ve installed KDE and like it quite a bit so far. But how has no one made a file browser that can match or beat thunar yet? Like the mist basic things like selecting and copying from the address bar and click and drag to select multiple items without needing to start from some empty space at the bottom!
Nix for home server Cachy OS for daily driver I was using gentoo+openRC and later gentoo+runit before coming to nix os. But still I love arch based cachy and gentoo over nix
Hi, been on Linux for over 20 years now. Very recently (less than a month ago) I switched my personal system to NixOS, I also switched one of my servers to it. Some of my other systems are on Arch as that’s what I was using before. My work computer is on Ubuntu as that is company issued.
I liked Arch because of its simplicity and the AUR, but I missed the package sets from Gentoo, NixOS is excellent because it brings the package lists and also includes configuration on them. A pain to do the initial setup, but then you get reproducible systems very easily and most of the time you want your systems to be mostly the same.
In the process of moving over to NixOS right now. It’s been fun, but I definitely sometimes hit a wall where I don’t know what to do and it takes me a while figure things out. But I also love having a file that defines my system instead of having to remember how I set everything up. I was using fedora before which is great too, and I’ve used most of the other ones in the past as well.
I’m making the switch because I want using my computer to feel more like a hobby
Most answers seem to be Debian. Sort of just works for me as well. With KDE Plasma and couldn’t be happier with it. I keep on forgetting how I did stuff though because it’s solid set and forget most of the time.
Depends! Bazzite on ROG Ally X, Debian for servers, CachyOS for my desktop and laptop and Fedora for my sons PC
