Arch Linux and Windows 10 dual boot.

Generally, I like Linux because it's FOSS and I can use i3wm. Arch Linux specifically because the AUR makes installing software really easy. Almost everything I use is available there.

I keep Windows for programs that don't work under Wine. I haven't touched this disk for some time because all of my Windows programs work on Wine now.

My main personal computer is a macbook with apple silicon. I use "Mac OS X" since the inital Public Beta - and man i miss the PPC days... - but i also use MorphOS daily (Mac Mini G4) and Linux/SteamOS in for personal computing in its dock from time to time. macOS has still the best UX for me - i still hope it will return to a more desktop and less mobile UX/UI like in the 10.4 - 10.14 days... SteamOS works just awesome for a Linux and is very polished compared with for example a stock debian installation imho

Zorin OS right now

Windows 10 I have to use it at work, so I am also using it at home, Tried to switch to Linux about 20 years. But it did not meet my primary use case back then (mostly gaming), so I switched back. Nowadays I am on my PC so scarcely that it does not make any sense to me to use this limited time to get used to a new OS.

At home? Manjaro Linux. When I was looking to learn Linux I compared different distro's and decided that one seemed the nicest combo between ease, stability, and power. Overwrote my Windows on my school laptop and figured "now I have to learn".

Over the years I tried some others like Ubuntu (and related) Debian (and related), and Kali. But I never found them as nice to use. But to be honest, since I'm quite content I'm not distrohopping too much and most where tried out of necessity.

Been running Manjaro for a few years now as main OS everywhere on my own computers, with only a minimal Windows installation on a separate SSD for the few games that don't work smoothly on Linux yet. At this moment, only 4 are left, mainly due to mods that don't run in Linux rather than the games itself.

Still got a Windows laptop for work, as it's necessarily there. Also got a few Linux servers there as well tho, to which I connect remotely when needed.

Currently using void linux, but been thinking about switching to debian 12 when my exams are over ...

windows 10 desktop PC for ableton live, linux mint xfce laptop for productivity

Debian Testing with XFCE. When I need Wayland (for testing my app), i use Sway.

1. Performance. I'm stuck with an old computer right now.
2. No reliance on quirky black-box packages. It is less 'wrapped' unlike Mint, and more 'wrapped', unlike Arch. Compared to Arch (btw), Debian has some distro-management apps, like update-alternatives and synaptic. Also, it breaks less often, provided the system is used properly.

Also, I use Debian Stable on a VPS, because you don't want to sacrifice security to bleeding edge.

Pi Desktop

Simple and fast

Fedora. Why? Because its the best!

Arch Linux

• AUR
• Up to date packages + AUR, so no need to manually install things or search for third party repositories
• Arch wiki
• I started using it and it works
• etc.

Windows 11

• laptop ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I had a windows 7 desktop that I muddled through the process of setting up a dual boot with Ubuntu. I could not get certain programs to work that I needed to use for work, so just left that partition in place and went back to Windows 7. Partly because I'm not OS tech savvy and not certain how to remove it and partly because I have a new computer that is Windows 10 and is my daily driver now. The Windows 7/Ubuntu computer is now just sitting in the spare room running an RTL-SDR dongle using Windows 7 as an AIS feeder. I'd set that up on the Ubuntu partition but haven't had a chance to learn how to do that yet.

Linux since Windows XP. Windows Update broke me.

Windows 11 because I'm a gamer

NixOs everywhere except my phone. It takes about 2 hours to go from blank drive to 100% identical device when a drive fails. Can't beat it.

Xubuntu because I am lazy these days.

Windows 10 on my desktop. I game and work on it, and there are applications for my job that I can't get to work on Linux (even on Wine).

My laptop is on Linux (Endeavour OS). It's my portable device and I don't use it for work so Linux, imho, is my best choice. It's pretty old as well.

I mostly use Arch Linux, as the customizability and package selection is excellent.
On the rare occasion I need to use a piece of software that doesn't play nicely with Linux (even with Wine/Proton), I boot up onto a secondary drive that has Windows 10 installed on it.

Windows. Primarily because I play a lot of PC games and do PCVR and while Linux has come a long way it's still more of a PITA to use for a lot of things.

Windows, it's easy to set up all the games I want and I'd have to run an emulator to use a Linux distro and still play everything I want to.

The last version I paid for was Windows 7 however, I only took the Win10 upgrade when things slowly stopped working because of driver issues.

KDE Neon. It does everything I expect an OS to do and stays out of my way...

I'm using Ubuntu with KDE Plasma. A while ago, Windows reset a lot of my system (thank the powers that be that my files stayed intact), and I decided that I was fed up with Windows and that I'd find a way to continue everything I was doing on Linux. At this point, I'm roughly 95% of the way there as I do own an Oculus Rift which only supports Windows (unless someone can point me to an article or forum post that says otherwise); I'd like to either get a Valve Index or a Quest, but I don't currently have the money.

In any case, a friend of mine recommended a flavor of Arch that included KDE Plasma (I forget the name, might be Endeavour) but I was coming up with issues that a lot of programs I had wanted to use were only built for Debian/Ubuntu so I switched again. Lovely how with Linux you can switch distros so easily. So I flashed my computer with Kubuntu and I haven't looked back since.