What Linux distro do you use? What do you use it for? What is your experience with it? Why did you switch to Linux?
Used to do pop, currently manjaro, liked it a lot and might go for straight arch in the future.
A few nitpicks here and there, since I do gaming and general internet browsing, it’s a hit or miss situation, but usually solving a problem means it won’t be a headache in the future, unlike with windows. In general it’s just tradeoffs, you get to brush off really stupid issues that pop up on windows for no good reason, but then compatibility (which afaik is actively worsened on purpose) becomes an issue with multiple elements that have to be circumvented individually, like the drm chip on my xbox controller or browser hardware acceleration.
My main reason is that I hate windows, but I’m progressively liking the concept of not being owned by the companies that make my software more and more.
Debian, it just works and it’s stable.
I’ve tried pretty much all major distros over the last 15 years, and I always come back to debian.
Probably because it’s simply the best, other distros may have fancy features but at the end of the day people want something stable
PopOs + arch,
My way to go theses last timesTbh lemmy is already oversaturated with linux content. I use Zorin OS, and before that I was using Mint for a very long time, then tried out Pop OS!. It’s my computer, so I use it whatever I want for. Zorin looks very good, is very stable (because kernel and software are not the bleeding edge). I switched to Linux because I was unable to install Windows on my brand new PC (some kind of error, I don’t remember anymore).
I utilize both Arch & Debian. Arch is for my daily driver, it would’ve been Debian but I don’t want to make a Frankedebian by updating to latest GPU drivers and other utilities. I use it for just about anything, solid distro, not much to say.
Debian is my distro of choice for anything server related. The services I host are all on Debian. It’s reliable, secure and focuses a lot on free software.
Gonna go out of limb and say Linux Mint. Very easy to setup, got everything I need for work.
Aside from that, I use Debian & Gentoo, but it’s more advanced.
Yeah I like Linux Mint a lot. Great way to breathe some life into an old, otherwise unusable Windows computer, or just a nice intro to Linux without the obnoxious UI stuff from Ubuntu.
Kubuntu on my main while I set up my Proxmox VE home lab. Plasma is superbly customisable, but there’s something about Gnome that’s so pleasing to the eyes that makes me look up ways to make Gnome work for me.
I have decided that xRDP is how I want to access my VMs (the only protocol that I’m able to reliably get multi display to work without additional configurations), so that’s my bare minimum requirement for now. The test Debian VM I had straight up would not install the xRDP Easy Install script.
Switched to Linux (on my spare laptop) because that’s what the programming tutorial I was following at that time recommended (though I’ve had experience with Ubuntu on and off before this). Such a delightful experience setting up programming stuff on Linux compared to Windows (I know WSL exists, but I like to keep my environments separate). Now my Linux spare laptop is my main PC, while I’ve barely turned on my “main” Windows laptop lately. Helps that my entertainment is mainly YouTube and not much gaming, though I played a few steam games on it before with a few quirks.
I use Linux in the cloud- Ubuntu, Amazon Linux 2, RHEL. Pretty much the whole internet runs on Linux, so that’s what I do- app servers, load balancers, workstations, etc.
I went with kubuntu. Mostly used for internet surfing and media viewing. Has been considering to switch to open suse. Doesn’t want to pay nor subscribe to anything for such usage.
