Arch on my desktop because I customize it to how I like and don’t care if something breaks (rarely does). And linux mint on my laptop because I need a more reliable distro when taking my laptop to work.
I was using elementaryos because it looked nice and had a debian base for stability but I don’t like the direction it is going so I am looking for something that is a little out of my comfort zone but not as crazy as arch. Bonus points if it supports KDE.
I just switched to Debian after having enough of Canonical. There is hardly any UI difference, if anything Debian actually works better in every regard for me.
You can select any DE to use during the install process. Gnome, kde, xfce, etc
Running Ubuntu w Mate desktop on laptop and PC. Debian for servers. I need all my weird devices to just work and Ubuntu has the best compatibility. PopOS seems nice, but if I run Mate for me DE, it doesn’t really matter, AFAIK.
OpenSuse Tumbleweed. A rolling release distro with a ton of quality assurance work already done for it. (Open)Suse is actually a family of distros so if I ever need a stable or enterprise distro that I’m already familiar with, I have Leap and SLES respectively.
Arch, Debian, Ubuntu and its derivatives, Manjaro, a bit of NixOS, Tails. I don’t need to explain “Why?” since I don’t use em for personal preference, but more like “when I’m forced to.”.
Xubuntu Minimal for me. I use my MBP for the most part, but like the idea of turning a Chromebook with soldered memory and storage into something useable for programming. The 16GB of storage on the model I bought makes it difficult to find a Debian based distro that leaves more than 1GB free. Xubuntu has been the best on that front at 4GB free. That and out of the box touchscreen support. I like the idea of being able to say that the setup I use for programming in my spare time is a $37 ThinkPad Chromebook with Xubuntu on it.
Arch because it’s rolling release and customizable. I was using Nobara until a couple of weeks ago and switched to Arch because Nobara is basically a tweaked Fedora. The switch had nothing to do with the RedHat thing. It had to do with Fedora’s phasing out of X. I don’t need X for very much, just actually one little game that doesn’t work on Wayland (yet). I think I’m sticking with Arch forever now that I’ve realized how nice it is to not have to upgrade from whatever version number to the next. Gamers who don’t want a lot of hassle and like out-of-the-box functionality should consider Nobara, though. I love it as much as I am enjoying Arch.
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