I’ve been using NixOS for the past few months and it’s been great. Before NixOS I was using Fedora Silverblue so immutable distros aren’t a new thing to me. I like that NixOS has a configuration I can keep backed up. I can copy different options from my desktop to laptop easily. I’m still learning about flakes and the nix language to be able to do more advanced things, but overall NixOS is a great distro if you want something you can configure once and be done.

Super happy. POP OS has been entirely pain free since I installed it and has a great looming future with COSMIC DE!

I love Debian, but want Plasma 6, so I’m installing openSUSE right now.

Love Gentoo. Being using it for 20+ years and never looked back.

Using also CentOS for work, and would switch to Gentoo if I could.

Really, gentoo for everything (from laptop to headless server), but not for where a rolling release distro is not suitable (configuration control and such needs).

OK-ish. I use Manjaro. It's a pretty good idea to read Announcements before updating: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/announcements/

It may have instructions on how to update without borking your system. For example, the February update broke Plymouth, causing systems using it to be unbootable. Sort of. It would actually boot, just to a black screen. On one of the threads someone reported being able to SSH into his PC just fine.

Or the May update bringing Plasma 6 to stable. The recommendation was to reset Plasma to defaults, log out, stop SDDM and update from TTY. I tested doing exact opposite of that in VM, and it still went fine, except for missing icons, but still a good idea just to be safe.

But I had some other problems too.

February update: Booting to black screen. I found threads mentioning the same stuff for this update. Cool. "Remove Plymouth or just don't use splash". I... already disabled splash (and quiet to make boot-up cooler).
Fix: Updating Linux 5.15 LTS to 6.6 LTS. Something changed in 5.15 making it break on my laptop, I guess. I couldn't even get to TTY without nomodeset.
Furthermore, the animations became choppy after resuming from sleep.

May update: Turning on Bluetooth may cause system crash. It would show as "ON", but actually be inactive while shoving already paired devices. This couldn't be reversed. Logging out and back in would lead to only the welcome screen and yakuake showing up. Trying to reboot from both yakuake and plain TTY would stop mid-way. After issuing reboot, the system would be mostly dead, but still kinda running. Linux still responded to magic SysRq.
Fix: Upgrading Linux 6.6 LTS to 6.9.

So, I can deal with it, and it definitely taught me to use Timeshift. Oh, and the brightness buttons sometimes stop working.

Arch + i3wm on my work laptop and I love it. Super functional.

I got a refresh/new laptop and they put Ubuntu on it. Really miss Arch's repos & package manager. Probably will switch it at some point.

Been using Debian stable again this year, but this time in a VM (Windows host. I know, I know.)

I'm very happy with it. I tried other distros but kept coming back to Debian.

I have Void running on my desktop, server, laptop, and media center. Then my NAS and router are running versions of FreeBSD (TrueNAS, Opnsense). Not really looking to change, so pretty happy overall.

Debian 12. It just works, except for buggy Wayland, thankfully KDE still supports Xorg.

I was early on Silverblue but went to Workstation. The Fedora Anaconda UEFI shim on enthusiast edge class hardware is flawless. The ability to roll back if there are any issues is default config. Encrypted drives are easy. NVME is managed. Nvidia kernel modules are built lightning fast in the background. I have a dozen distrobox container environments each with layers of Python containers within. I occasionally have a minor issue, like upgrading to F40 put me on Python too far ahead for some projects, but it was an easy fix for me.

Unfortunately I must be on a shim, so only Fedora and Ubuntu exist on my main.

Couldn’t be happier with Debian stable. Easiest year on my computer since I installed bookworm when it was released. There is a reason it is the basis of so many distros.

Switched from Kubuntu to Mint + KDE last week. Very happy indeed.

Debian and very. Sorry I strayed to Ubuntu for as long as I did.

Eh. I'm just (again, take 371) trying to get a ThinkPad running on Linux for light use, and I've dabbled with a lot of distros in the last 20 years, but I've always reversed course because something didn't work, and I got frustrated troubleshooting it.

This go around, I wanted Debian 12, fde, btrfs, snapshots. And I wanted it to work ootb (spoiler: it did not). It also needed to support my hardware, which includes WWAN.

D12 installs fine, everything is great, until the restart, where it hangs on hardware errors (I thiiiink it's thunderbolt but I can't remember) on boot. Okay, let's try Fedora - yay it works. Oh no, the fcc unlock for WWAN doesn't work. Let's try Mint (Debian Edition). Wtf, I can do fde but only on ext4, and gparted is useless here. I want Debian(-based) since I have the most experience with it, and the software I use is available easily. Don't like straight ubu, but not a lot of options so let's try kubu. After a couple installs, it checks all my requirements (Debian, fde, btrfs, snapshots via gui, WWAN, ootb* (with fcc unlock and added apn)).

It's fine, it works, but it's not what I wanted. And between needing WWAN working, and needing compiled packages for my software, I'm kinda stuck.

So I dunno. Kubu is fine. It's like the compact car you get as a rental. It does the job. But fuck, WHY is WWAN support so shit, why isn't btrfs support in the installer more common, why is it often difficult to do fde. Those three were a huge pain for me. And I'm not fresh off the boat, but I'm not going to fuck with the terminal just to install a fucking system. Ugh.

Anyway. I'm not "happy", but it's currently working. Suggestions (or assistance) welcome.

E: I should add that I tried fedora because it was recommended to me to try; afaik it's based on red hat

I'm still rocking my 2011 Arch install, immediately ended my distro hopping for over a decade and still going strong.

Happy, Fedora Kinoite uBlue-main

In the process of making my own variant, but that is quite some effort

Somewhat happy with NixOS. Documentation is still abysmal but it's the most stable yet up to date distro I've used so far.

I wish the community were better and the decision-making less top down and anarchist at the same time, but there's maybe a fork in the making (Auxolotl) that I'm keeping an eye on. Maybe it'll pop up in phoronix or the nix community forums once it's stable, then it might be worth switching to.

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I use OpenBSD on my prod machine and vps, and that's serving me very well (other than suspend and usb expansions cards being buggy on my framework laptop (latter might be hardware issues))

I have the default SteamOS on my steam deck; I'm not a fan of its immutable filesystem paradigm and not shipping with any real package manager besides flatpak, so I'm thinking of putting Void Linux on it at some point.

My phone runs PostmarketOS (alpine based mobile OS); which is adding support for systemd and making it default for phosh, kde and gnome installations; which I'm disappointed about to say the least. openrc will still be supported, but given it's no longer the default (and requires recompilation to change), it's probably taking a backseat to systemd. openrc will still ship by default on sxmo, but I'm ready to find an alternative at this point. Maybe I should look into trying to port OpenBSD to the pinephone again, as much as a dream as that seems like. Looks like there's also been some effort put into porting Void Linux to the pinephone, so I'll check that out.

Arch. ~3 y/o installation and I never had any significant problems with it. And yes, I have broke my installation a few times (I think only 2 times) but that is totally my fault (changing repositories, downgrading packages, changing critical system files, etc) and not something that would apply for every arch user.

Pretty happy. Debian works good. Rhel works good too.

The Toyota Camry and Lexus 300 of distros.

I regret ever having switched to the amateur distro that is Nobara bc I was too lazy to set up Feodra a 2nd time after the Grub fiasco Arch (and thus my daily driver back then EndeavourOS) had lol

Will switch the second OpenSuSe Slowroll becomes stable

I enjoy Fedora. I can complain all day about Redhat being evil, but I haven't found a desktop distro that scratches the same itch, so I'm happy for the time being.

On the server side, Debian is perfect for me and I have zero qualms with it.