I want a distro that's hard to understand, hard to make work, hard to update and gives me superpowers like being able to move box to box by taking a file or two with me.
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I'm a boring stable enough guy, which is why I like the distro on my laptop. Also, somewhat of an aesthetics person, so same goes for my KDE set up on that laptop.
Also the type to not like Cinnamon for the lack of customization compared to KDE.
WSL
I rice'd Gnome and now dont mess with my computer (I got a job :sadge:)
I just want shit to work. I want to use it as my daily driver so I can get work done, not waste time to get things working. I don't want my installation to become obsolete. I want a nice desktop. I want a lot of nerdy console stuff, but good UI as well, so I can choose the best of both worlds for each use case, so I can work efficiently. I want to play the occasional game.
At the moment, EndeavourOS ticks all those boxes for me. I am aware other distros do as well, CachyOS looks nice. But I'm only gonna switch if it's really worth the effort.
Iβve been everywhere from a piecemeal Arch setup with a minimal desktop all the way to a Mint pleb. Iβve pretty much settled on EndeavourOS. Itβs really impressed me with its dummy simple setup and OOB experience. Not to mention very few issues getting games to run even with an nVidia card.
I installed LXQt on Termux, Kubuntu on a VM, just so I could try and let an AI agent run amock on it.
I grew up on Ubuntu (started on 4.10), moved to Kubuntu soon after and that was my daily until KDE 4.0 broke everything. I tried GNOME and XFCE but nothing really clicked for me. I got a job, I hated coming home to more sysadmin shenanigans and I moved to Windows.
Finally after I heard that the Steam Deck and Proton working great, and after years of Windows doing bullshit constantly, I came back to Linux. This time Linux Mint because I've been told it's easy to use and has lots of support. I had trouble with the initial setup (Nvidia drivers not working with Safe Boot enabled, it took me two weeks to figure it out) but since then everything has been super smooth.
Anyway don't shoot me, I have kids, they love GCompris and SuperTux!
I use Alpine Linux with Sway as my daily driver for browsing, writing scripts and to slowly customize my own work environment.
I have a Linux Mint DE partition that launchs directly to Steam for gaming. Tried Bazzite but the installer failed to find my SSD.
I also have a small partition that has an image of the LMDE .iso. It saves me from needing to grab a USB drive for when I inevitably fuck up the first two partitions and need a live USB environment to fix things.
I keep all my backups, music, work and sensitive data in a separate partition that's encrypted so I can easily get back to work after any fuck ups. I've had of practice fixing my own fuck ups over the past year.
Ubuntu on WSL2
I'd love to go full Nobara, if all my peripherials worked properly.
I use Gentoo on my mail server because I'm too lazy to learn a new distro.
After breaking opensuse tumbleweed I ended up on bazzite KDE. I think if I leave bazzite it will be for another immutable.
I'm the kind that will try to install Arch from scratch, multiple times if needed and when I get a barely working desktop with Hyprland I switch to cachy os with KDE Plasma. Because that just works and I learned what I wanted from the scratch install. Edit: Anything I host probably runs Debian, anything I have to support(parrents) runs Linux Mint or Ubuntu.
PikaOS. I have surfed around enough to know this is made for me. It's Debian Unstable based and carries optimized builds in their own repo via a package manager that also wraps around apx, and their own tool for firmware, switching the scheduling and well, enough said