What Linux distro do you use?

[Goshikk]

Windows users: begone!
Mac normies: avast!
This thread is only for the REAL nerds, who think the computer is not just a tool, but a form of art and expression!
No room for bloat here, and beer isn't as free as you think!

Title says it all. There seems to be a general anti-Windows sentiment going around lately, so I wanted to know what you guys use.
Pick an option in the poll and fight to the death in the replies!

 

[Lod 10]

Estou planejando começar o Linux entrar no mundo nerd de verdade tenha uma ótima noite

 

[Enian]

I use Arch, btw.

 

[Goshikk]

I use Arch, btw.

I like the idea of arch but I don't like how every now and then an official update breaks everything
Also I think it must be the only distro ever to have malware submitted to its repository thanks to the AUR lol

 

[JG5009]

I just made the jump last week, Windows is so bad I could not stand it's bullshit any longer.

I chose Mint, it has nice compatibility, and it doesn't need a lot of configuration.

 

[Questless Knight]

on my gaming PC win 11 because im forced to well kind of. But honestly I don´t mind win 11 as my version is so clean from shit I don´t even have edge "some times some application like Purple wanna open edge when you log in but then my PC is like Explorer 11 does not work. But honestly I have 0 issue with my install of Win 11.


But on my Laptop I use Linux mint xfce as the XFCE is very good version to use for older tech like my 2013 Sony vaio.

 

[Sheepy765]

I use Nobara, it’s given me very few actual problems since starting it and lets me game right out of the gate.

 

[Johnathan Smikey Johnathan Smikey]

CachyOS is good for people who want Arch but don't want to deal with Arch's bullshit.

That's how I see it anyways.

 

[G.L.a.D.O.S.]

Unfortunately I do have to use one Windows based PC, but that's a work thing.

I use both Mint and Arch (by the way) and Bazzite and Batocera, depending on what I need or want to do at any particular time. The Mint system is mostly for media, movies, music, YouTube, and the like. Bazzite and Batocera are pretty self-explanatory.

Arch well, I'm not going to discuss what my Arch systems are for.

 

[SliperyHippo]

Lightning struck near my house recently and fried my motherboard's SATA drive- nuking my boot drive!! I took this as a sign from the linux gods that it must be time to make a switch! (Also my motherboard doesn't have the proprietary tracking chip since it's old so it's not "up to date" enough to "run" windows 11 which is BS since it runs cyberpunk 2077 on max settings at a pretty solid 60 fps, and if my worse laptop can run windows, what's the friggin' deal?!) So I chose arch- pretty much entirely due to the marketing of the most annoying internet users on the net- with a Hyprland environment and I was having a blast! Pretty much everything on steam runs great!

However...
I did have to learn Dota 2 and find a way to convince my old league friends to make the jump...

 

[G.L.a.D.O.S.]

Lightning struck near my house recently and fried my motherboard's SATA drive- nuking my boot drive!! I took this as a sign from the linux gods that it must be time to make a switch! (Also my motherboard doesn't have the proprietary tracking chip since it's old so it's not "up to date" enough to "run" windows 11 which is BS since it runs cyberpunk 2077 on max settings at a pretty solid 60 fps, and if my worse laptop can run windows, what's the friggin' deal?!) So I chose arch- pretty much entirely due to the marketing of the most annoying internet users on the net- with a Hyprland environment and I was having a blast! Pretty much everything on steam runs great!

However...
I did have to learn Dota 2 and find a way to convince my old league friends to make the jump...

Sorry to hear about your system getting the old KFC treatment. I have lost a couple of PCs to power surges myself, long ago, nothing as recent.

But on the upside it gave you a reason to try Linux and welcome to the way of the penguin.

And as for Windows 11, all you're missing out on is more spying and data collection, so it's not a big loss really. Microsoft is literally creating Ass amounts of e-waste, whereas people who don't want to try or understand Linux think the system has to be thrown out.

With a Linux distro, even the worst one would work a thousand times better than Windows, and its AI infested slop spyware OS.

Ironic, I know... coming from someone posing as an AI, huh?

 

[jankusanagi jankusanagi]

Mageia!

Also Debian and some others on secondary and virtual machines, but mainly Mageia.