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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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    • nix98@lemmy.worldEnglish
      43 minutes

      I started using Linux in '98 with Red Hat 5.2. I have swapped between many, many different distros. But for the last 10 years or so, I’ve mostly stuck with Fedora. It generally just works, is up to date, and I’ve never had issues upgrading on their 6 month release cycle. My desktop probably started on Fedora 20-something and has been upgraded to the latest (43) without ever doing a reinstall!

      My primary computer is my Frame.work laptop running Fedora 43.

    • corodius@lemmy.world
      2 hours

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

    • orc girly@lemmy.ml
      4 hours

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

    • HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com
      3 hours

      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.

    • fratermus@piefed.socialEnglish
      5 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.

    • Gilgamesh@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3 hours

      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.

      • nix98@lemmy.worldEnglish
        42 minutes

        Guix is very interesting to me. If fedora didn’t just work, I think that’s where I’d want to move to.

    • Whooping_Seal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5 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.

    • RattlerSix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5 hours

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

    • Alphamars@lemmy.world
      5 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.

    • ITGuyLevi@programming.dev
      5 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).