For my Linux Users, What distro do y'all use?

[zerodayhx]

My laptop is a used Thinkpad T14 and I'm usually using normal Fedora. (As in actually Fedora not a Fedora based distro)

So what do y'all use?
I used to use Arch and while I did like it my laptop usage didn't really make learning it really worth it.
Might put one on another older Thinkpad if I ever get a T480 or something older

 

[JustLooking123]

My favorite distro is Vanilla Dpup! (A Puppy Linux variant)

Vanilla Dpup

vanilla-dpup.github.io

It's really good for learning and experimenting with Linux!
It allows changing all sorts of settings and install all sorts of things, and if we don't like the result, we can choose not to save the changes, and after restarting the system, Poof! they'll all revert to their previous state!

 

[lestagio]

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Been rocking it for years. It's nice to use and bleeding edge BUT is also extremely stable, and zypper is a nice package manager. Really everything else can be customized, like any other distro so there's not too much to speak about on that. I've considered Arch and Gentoo, but I've never really felt a need to install them. The only true use case for Arch is the package manager/AUR and starting from near scratch. BUT it's less stable and I'm a lazy fuck and don't want to maintain my own system all the time. I maintain it enough with all my dumbass scripts and modifications to programs that aren't supposed to be modified.

The only real downside I have is that of the more mainstream distros, OpenSUSE has one of the smallest communities so it's harder to ask for help when you have a specific question. The repositories are also arguably not as full as other distros, meaning that the Packman repo is a necessity. That said, I have no issue with building my own programs so it doesn't matter too much for me.

 

[4C374552A1CA2638]

SteamOS is probably my primary since I use the Deck for everything instead of just gaming. I've yet to try installing it or Bazzite on anything.

Spoiler: History.

I think I've used Ubuntu in the way distant past, used Mint more after wanting to seriously try Linux, used Garuda on a tower for a while... Haven't really done much for distro-hopping.

I used to use EndeavourOS, but the AUR malware attacks kind of took the interest out of Arch-derivatives for me. I know you don't have to install anything from AUR. I still have it on one machine (unaffected by the above), but I'm looking to swap out whenever I can work up the effort because the graphics card is too old, so I wanna see if I can use older drivers instead of nouveau.

I was using antiX on this device which was great since it was so good on RAM use, but it gave me issues like not actually locking when closing the lid, and the interface felt too barebones if that makes sense. I couldn't install Puppy because the eMMC wasn't being read as proper internal storage, and I couldn't install Endeavour because it runs out of RAM in the live session... despite me getting it on there once before?! Can't even use an old ISO because it'll fuck up when updating.

So, I'm using Debian with KDE Plasma right now. It's not lightweight at all, but I like the user interface, and it's still relatively snappy as long as I'm not needing to use the web browser. The Chromebook sometimes kernel panics on wake, but it's not common.

I kinda want to learn i3 or sway, but I think I'm fine where I am.

 

[MorriganW0lf]

Linux Mint for over 2 years on my two laptops.

 

[Potapota]

Arch on desktop and debian on everything else. I like debian because I can trust it to just not break even if I were to update it like once a year and I'm fairly familiar with how to operate it, but desktop use for me kinda demands more bleeding edge software. You could try to bend debian to do that but then I really can not trust it to just work anymore so.. arch.
Funnily enough even with all the memes about arch breaking I've only had one amdgpu bug on it that caused some instabilities on some very specific high stress scenarios but even that was resolved fairly quickly.

I've been meaning to actually try out fedora on my laptop just for fun.

 

[pupok999]

Has been distrohopping for 3 months. Mint XFCE -> CachyOS -> Void -> back to Mint XFCE again. Don't know if i'll try anything soon

 

[sijaab]

fedora KDE on a thinkpad L440 and a desktop

 

[Pokenami's icon Pokenami Pokenami]

For my Console-Like PC, I have Bazzite installed.

 

[Eduardo2010]

Currently: Debian

Previous:
Mint
Arch
Trisquel
Manjaro
Parabola

 

[Advil Lavs]

I installed Mint on my "work laptop" sinse the one I use for gaming is not technically mine. It's great but I'm never going to use a docker again.

 

[Moldark-Wyrm]

Bazzite.

 

[jankusanagi jankusanagi]

Mageia

 

[bombatomba77]

I've been a huge distro-jumper for decades at this point, so I'm constantly playing with different distros (I'm on Distrowatch a lot and have a 32GB Ventoy drive!). That being said I'm currently on year two of CachyOS being my daily driver and still loving it (although I still have a drive with MGame on it that I power up and update about once a month).

 

[Sorion]

I used to install Linux mint on every single computer I own but over time I learned that some distros do specific things better than others, currently I own 4 x86 computers, 2 laptops and 2 desktop computers, all of them are running linux but I pick different distros for different needs, none of them are particularly expensive or bleeding edge but they perform the tasks I need, my main gaming rig is running cachy os since I needed the extra performance while I was stuck with my old graphics card (an rx 560), back then it gave me some really impressive performance improvements over linux mint so I highly recommend it for gaming needs. on my thinkpad T440p I'm running Ubuntu studio 26.04 LTS since I needed the best compatibility possible with my huion graphics tablet, Studio comes with many open source drivers pre-installed for those tasks and kernel optimizations for specific creative work, that's an area in which Mint gave me huge problems since it's older kernel didn't have compatible drivers for my huion graphics tablet, also, ubuntu studio 26.04 had the best performance I've ever seen on Krita and that's why I decided to use it, good out of the box compatiblity with my hardware and great performance even on older hardware.
In the other 2 computers I own I do my college work and both of them have linux mint installed, it's good, easy to use, versatile and reliable, that's the beauty of older kernels, In my 6 years as a linux mint user I've never ever seen this operating system crash on me for software problems (it did crash on me once for a faulty hardrive).