Arch Linux. Always very up-to-date and the AUR is huge. No dealing with PPAs or snaps or flatpaks or appimages. Just paru -S any-software-ever-made. Also very streamlined (systemd for everything lol) and well documented. I tried NixOS for a bit but it was very inconvenient in comparison and I felt like it was impossible to tinker with or understand if you weren’t good at Haskell. Terrible documentation.

For servers it’s definitely Debian + docker.

Debian. Several reasons:

• It’s trustworthy.
• It’s not going anywhere. Debian existed when I was a kid and it’ll probably still exist when I draw my last breath.
• I know how to use it, since, once again, I’ve been using it since I was a kid.
• It has all the desktop environments.
• It fully supports systemd. I do not miss the unreliability, slowness, and complexity of what came before that. (Normally I wouldn’t mention this, but your former distro of choice exists solely for the purpose of not having systemd, so it’s relevant this time.)

I use Debian with a patched version of motif window manager. The 90s never ended:

I was a distro hopper once, then I saw the light of NixOS…

Ubuntu for life. Unpopular opinion i know, please don’t stone.

Garuuuuuda. Love it. Been running it for the past few years. The devs come off as assholes, but they’re actually just German;)

EndeavourOS on my desktop, Red Hat and Ubuntu on servers(at work).

Linux Mint, it just works

I have a few dozen computers and most run Pop!_OS.

Fedora on the desktop. I got my start on Red Hat Linux so I’ve stuck with it since.

For servers I use Debian. Lightweight, widely used, and gets the job done.

Arch, Debian, NixOS, Fedora Silverblue, Raspbian, GrapheneOS[Android]

Does SteamOS count? My steam deck is my current “Linux” machine.

NixOS everywhere (except for one server which I have yet to migrate from Rocky to NixOS)

Linux Mint. Nothing beats your computer just working when you have shit to get done.

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