I tried Ubuntu, Mint, CachyOS, PopOS, Manjaro, Bazzite and Nobara. I stuck with Nobara.
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Proxmox on my server Fedora on my workstation and Arch on my Surface 4 Pro.
Mein Moms Laptop Linux Mint My old laptop, Linux Mint. Some old laptop for testing, Linux Mint.
The kind to question all the weird noises from upstairs
Mint on the computers I want working.
Testing Xubuntu on a chromebook that currently has no sound output.
Bazzite on my gaming PC, CachyOS on another.
Both systems are amazing! Bazzite, in particular, lets you easily install apps from almost any distribution using Distrobox. Want to install an app that's only available in the Arch AUR? No problem!
This kind...
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/keroserene/rickrollrc/refs/heads/master/roll.sh | bash
I use Gentoo on my mail server because I'm too lazy to learn a new distro.
I’ve been everywhere from a piecemeal Arch setup with a minimal desktop all the way to a Mint pleb. I’ve pretty much settled on EndeavourOS. It’s 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 used to use fedora on my first school Thinkpad (since I recieved another when my brother graduated, becoming my second school laptop,) then after I got 2 considerably more powerful laptops for free I switched the thinkpads out of my setup, and to this day they still run windows 11 unfortunately (haven’t gotten around to it and they’re both nvidia MX business machines, so that’s not awfully ideal,) and then I converted the second Thinkpad to a FydeOS machine (basically chrome os with local accounts) to give to my mother as her own laptop, and then put chromeOS flex on a third Thinkpad I bought off a friend for $10 which remains as my occasional-browsing-but-also-throw-around-laptop that has pretty friggin good battery life.
I do plan to switch at least one of the MX laptops to Linux, for which I’m considering Pop!_OS due to driver support and GPU configuration, but I’ve still gotta back some stuff up first.
Long term casual? I've been using it in some form since the early 00s when I installed Ubuntu 6 on an aging laptop. Currently I've got an HP Stream 13 that only functions thanks to Lubuntu, and Mint is on my work PC. Unfortunately thanks to a music hobby and a bunch of shitty VST vendors who refuse to support Linux I run Windows at home.
I rarely open a terminal.
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Kubuntu on desktop, Zorin on ThinkPad, Nyarch on surface (cuz it was funny).
Ran Manjaro for a few years, liked it, but needed something more stable.
Mint because I just want it to work. Although after fiddling with my Steam Deck, I'm now wondering if I should give Arch a try.
Serious .ML vibes going on with this meme
ssh root@host rm -rf /
Bazzite KDE on my gaming rig.
SteamOS on my SteamDeck.
Fedora Gnome on my laptop.
Fedora XFCE on my Jellyfin server
Android on my smartphone though soon to be Murena OS
Would like to tinker with OpenSUSE leap soon too actually, maybe on an old laptop.
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