I use arch on my laptops, debian on my servers, and I recommend fedora to others. I'm also nix/guix curious.
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Debian Bookworm KDE - though I have to admit that it's not my final destination when it comes to distro hopping, I guess. Currently thinking about giving Zorin OS a go.
Windows 10 (Home) until end of support, but I'll have to look into getting into Linux, as, among other things, Windows 11 having an in-built AI cemented to me that I will never ever be using it.
Pop OS from the start of the year. The Steam Deck showed be his far Linux gaming has come, no issues running the things I play. Glad to be rid of Windows
macOS
Kubuntu, but strongly considering Pop OS.
Grub roulette between Ubuntu studio 23 something, nixos, and ancient Ubuntu studio
On my laptop I have Windows 11 installed since thatβs what it came with. Iβm sure Iβll migrate it to Linux eventually but itβs new.
On my desktop I mostly bounce between Ubuntu and Arch though just installed Pop OS today to see what the craze is all about.
I daily drove Linux for 15 years. OSX for about five, and now windows since WSL.
It's easier to get the Linux stuff I like in Windows than it is to get the window stuff I like in Linux. WSL provides me all the tools I need to manage my Linux servers in a reasonably performant package.
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The last version of Windows I used on a computer I owned / own is 3.1. Iβve been on MacOS ever since and will continue to be for as long as Iβm able.
Win10 so I can play heavily modded skyrim
GNU/Linux.
I distrohop a not but right now im using Garuda. I also use different Debian variants in other computers.
Installed: Windows 10, Windows 7, Lubuntu LTS, ZealOS. VMs for MacOS, Android-x86, and Haiku.
Windows 10 on my main computer, Mint on my HTPC which is getting a lot more use.
Desktop is Win 10, laptop is mint.
MacOS of course, or Win11, or Garuda. Depends on how I feel or what I need to do. No it was not made by Apple.
Mac OS Ventura at work. Win10 at home
My main system is running Windows 10
It works great for everything I need and as long as I don't enable the TPM in my motherboard settings I don't have to worry about it upgrading itself to Windows 11. Unlike when my system upgraded itself from 8.1 to 10. That was a hard one due to driver issues with my Bluetooth card at the time.
Fedora and Debian Linux.
Windows 10. Have proxmox setup with Ubuntu and a few other operating systems.
Main PC is a gaming rig with Windows 10, side PC for work is Linux Mint with a Win10 dual boot partition just in case something fucks up in Linux, but I haven't needed it in a while. I am not upgrading to Win11 for as long as I am able.
Arch right now. Probably going to give NixOS a try in the near future though.
macOS Ventura on the Studio and the MBP work machines and Windows 11 Pro on the living room gaming tower.
Kubuntu 22.04 on my laptop & Ubuntu Mate 22.04 on my desktop/server.
Primary PC, runs windows 10. I have lots of various software development related programs which just works here. They don't work as well on linux.
All of my servers (Except blue iris), are running linux. Mostly ubuntu.
The other various gaming PCs around the house are running Ubuntu too. (Kubuntu to be more specific)
Windows 10 on my main (gaming) PC (honestly I would probably upgrade to 11 by now if I didn't need to do a BIOS update), and Ubuntu on my computer in the living room. I would try a different distro, but honestly whenever I need a guide to do something on Linux they're always written with Ubuntu and it's default commands and packages in mind so it's just easier to work with
Windows 11 unfortunately. I haven't found a suitable way to jump to Linux.
Currently I'm dual booting, mainly Arch for the most part and Windows 10 for my games.
I can't use proton for most of my games since all of them are latency sensitive (rhythm games).
Arch & Windows 10 on my desktop, OpenSuse Tumbleweed on the laptop.
Arch Linux
Everything else just sucks (haven't tried LFS, NixOS and Gentoo. But for sure I kinda hate Debian and Fedora based distros as they kinda suck and I mostly hate Microsoft based Operating Systems as they suck the most)
change my mind.
There are distros that I like but dont use because of the lack of convinience like Void Linux which is a great distro but doesn't have AUR.
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Windows 10 at home desktop, windows 11 laptop and work desktop. Frankly I'd switch to Linux but lots of stuff didn't work on it last I checked a year ago. Wayland seems to be messing with Nvidia and kde. Last Fedora release bricked on boot of the live usb. One day Linux will be ready. I like it on my steam deck and phone. It's great for embedded systems with limited hardware differences and a focused company supporting it's development. FOSS software suites really needs an organization behind it to be successful.
Windows because of work and most of my steam games ran like crap on kubuntu with proton making them unplayable
Ubuntu for personal main laptop/desktop/servers.
For work Mac OS because they made me choose between Windows or Mac.