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Experienced Linux users, what are you using?

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.

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    • corodius@lemmy.world
      43 minutes

      Recently switched to Arch, the archinstall script is amazing and gets you all set up. much better onboarding nowadays and is great to use.

    • HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com
      1 hour

      Been using linux for 7+ years, first distro was mint, then I moved to manjaro, for the last couple years I’ve been using Guix, a Nix inspired distro.

    • Gilgamesh@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1 hour

      After years of distro-hopping, I settled with NixOS 7 years ago and kept on expanding my setup to accommodate for my new demands from it. I might be hopping to GNU Guix at some point in the future because of their choice to use scheme as the configuration language for the Guix setups.

    • orc girly@lemmy.ml
      3 hours

      Debian stable, it works fine for a workstation and for the few games I play

    • fratermus@piefed.socialEnglish
      3 hours

      If you have been using Linux for +10 years, what are you using now?

      I distro-hopped every few years until about 2015. Since then I’ve been trending toward Debian for everything.

    • RattlerSix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 hours

      Slackware. In 27-ish years of using it, it’s never once crashed or failed to install

    • Alphamars@lemmy.world
      3 hours

      My Linux journey began with Fedora before I transitioned to Manjaro. Following the issues there, I switched to Debian, though I eventually moved on due to its slow update cycle in favor of openSUSE. I’ve now settled on CachyOS, and I couldn’t be happier. It is exceptionally stable, benefits from timely Arch-based updates, and performs incredibly fast. Ironically, even though I’m not a gamer, I find that CachyOS simply makes everything work perfectly.

    • Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4 hours

      I think I started back in the day with Ubuntu Gnome, with some dabbling in Manjaro and then Arch.

      But since then I have used Fedora Workstation, and then Fedora Silverblue / Fedora Kinoite (immutable versions of fedora, with the past several years on Kinoite [kde] over Silverblue [gnome])

      On the server side of things, I am using Debian (with everything running in podman containers).

      If I were to consider migrating, it would be to migrate my laptop to secureblue (likely, rebasing the OS image rather than clean-installing) and migrate my Windows 11 desktop to bazzite. Both of these are still based on Fedora’s immutable base, albeit with changes to the base OS image. At some point in the future, I would also consider migrating my server to an immutable OS, however, which one remains to be seen.

    • ITGuyLevi@programming.dev
      4 hours

      I hopped around a little but settled into Debian a long, long time ago. My son loves Arch, I like my stuff to be a bit more stable and don’t have the time to update between commands all the time (its a joke but has a little truth to it).

    • neutrino@feddit.nl
      5 hours

      I started with Slackware in the early 90s, moved to Gentoo in 2004 after using FreeBSD for a while, and Arch linux since 2007. Gentoo was too much work (both for my and for my CPU’s) in the long run. It has been more predictable (in spite of being a rolling release) for me than anything else,

      • bodaciousFern@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2 hours

        Nice, I’ll post mine as a reply since it’s very similar :)

        Work: when I started we were Centos/RHEL with some Debian, then pivoted to primarily Debian, now we have pivoted to Ubuntu.

        Work Desktop: Besides obligatory Windows I have been on Gentoo +KDE for the last 10 years, but the Chromium portage build times as well as some weird performance degradation finally became too much and I just recently switched to NixOS (with newer hardware).

        Home Server: Slackware/Gentoo for a while starting in the mid 2000’s, then stuck with FreeBSD for over a decade. Since then I’ve just happy with Raspian on an rpi, but looking at switching it to NixOS

        Home Desktop: Wasn’t much of a category for me and usually just a Windows junkie at home, but recently been very pleased with SteamOS

    • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
      5 hours

      I have been using unixes since 2000 and technically a bit before that as a user in school systems and linux since 2005. I am currently using zorin but have a long term trial to go towards and image type of system like bazzite. Thing is I have been doing this stuff to long and now I prefer to have stuff that just works and go rather than having to futz around. So my emphasis is on lazy linux. Its kinda funny because I sometimes talk about why I do and don’t do things at the command line and I will get responses about learning it more and I kinda got to roll my eyes.

      • robyn@lemmy.org
        4 hours

        As someone who threw themselves into Bazzite, it really is worth it, such a great system. If you are familiar with Docker and the dev container workflow, you really will love it on all your devices, especially laptops.