EndeavourOS (it’s basically arch btw)

Arch btw, beside the meme it really covers everything I want for my daily driver to do, and I love having all the latest software instead of waiting until it gets added to the official repositories or adding them manually.

If I were to use Linux for professional working though, I would explore Fedora just to have a system that is more stable and can't cause weird technical issues taking up time from my work.

For servers Debian without even thinking about it

Debian

arch btw

I've been on Kubuntu for a few years. I'm considering moving to something non-Ubuntu, but I'm really happy with KDE Plasma.

Fedora, the KDE spin.

Mint.

It just works, I don't have to think about my OS.

EndeavourOS (arch BTW)

Been on Debian for the better part of a decade. Won’t be changing anytime soon.

i use arch btw. if you don't have console-phobia it's one of the easiest distros to use, easy to install new software and is not prone to breaking as much as people say (well it depends on your use case mine's been pretty stable).

Nobara. it's fedora based but has most of the stuff you need for gaming in by default

Mint

Mint out of simplicity and ease of use because I've still got my training wheels on.

Will use Bazzite soon as I've just recently got myself a handheld but I haven't had the energy to tinker around on it just yet.

only 72 comments? come on everyone, those are rookie numbers

At this moment I'm using fedora with KDE and I'm quite enjoying it. It blends together the pros of rolling release with the managed aspects of other distros

By the way...

Arch (btw)

Bazzite on main PC because it just works and I don't want to mess around with nvidia drivers.

Almalinux for home server and anything I need to spin up short term.

Nobara KDE spin on my desktop endeavorOS on my laptop but might switch to vanilla arch on there soon

mint but i had to update the kernel to get some games to work, it was a little intimidating but i ended up getting it to work just by googling and following what other people did in forums

apparently mint is more for ease of use and stability, and less about being cutting edge

NixOS

Hannah Montana

NixOS, but looking into GUIX as well.

Fedora, because it works so well. I use the GNOME desktop because I need the bigger UI elements to use a computer effectively, and I like the workspaces. It's also Fedora's default, and is really seamless.

I've been using Linux as my daily driver for over a decade and after distro hopping for a few years, I finally settled on Linux Mint because for what it's worth, it just works. It's pretty close to a Windows environment, it's built on top of apt, and it's got good driver support for Nvidia. It comes with mostly useful default software and Nemo is a good file browser.

Fedora gnome. For many years

Arch, btw. And Guix. And Fedora. And Debian. And some more.

Almost every computing device I own runs Linux.

Debian on my desktop. Fedora on my laptop.

NixOS

Declarative configuration is so good

For servers, I'm a CentOS refugee who is stuck with Oracle Linux (*shudder*) because of work reasons, and because I didn't want to get in on the whole Rocky/Alma diaspora. For desktop, I still like Fedora, and for WSL, I think I'm running Ubuntu because fuck it, why not. Fedora was my daily driver for my work machine at my previous job; GNOME on Wayland was buggy as shit back then, but it was still a step up from Windows 10 randomly installing updates and rebooting my machine because I got up to get coffee or to pee. It also helped not having to fuck around with Cygwin to use rsync and scp from my dev workstation.

Guix, but it's not for linux newbies I think. Although it's completely libre, too much in fact, it didn't have some drivers I need for my laptop so I needed to non-libre it a bit...

Debian is very beginner friendly and very stable, but stable means the software is pretty old compared to other distros. Security updates are timely and everything no trouble on that front, but often I wondered why some app didn't have some feature only to find out it does, for over a year in fact, but the version implementing it hadn't made it through Debians QA yet.

I think it's a really good place to start, but if you find it "lacking" you may want to look into alternatives.

Also remember you can multi-boot, so you can try different distros, or set up a virtual machine to testdrive some distro. It's not terribly difficult but does require some time.

debian so i don't have to do anything

NixOS, really liking the ability to do package and system configuration as code in a single language, and consolidate the configuration for multiple devices in a single repo.

Gentoo