We're an all-linux household.
- Endeavoros on my gaming desktop
- Garuda on my Framework laptop
- Kubuntu on my partner's Framework laptop
- Endeavoros on my server. Plus a handful of Pis and appliances.
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- EndeavorOS on the gaming desktop
- Fedora on my framework laptop
- 2x Fedora Server version.
- Media
- Several pods
Pi Desktop
Simple and fast
Do you use a raspberry as a general purpose pc? I've never heard of this, how is the experience?
I have both and ancient Notebook and a Pi2 running Raspberry Pi Desktop
The emphasis in on general purpose. They are not blindingly fast, but for everyday office and browsing stuff they are really nice
Manjaro GNOME w/ Pop Shell for tiling and the launcher. I mostly use it as a sophisticated virtual amplifier (Carla & Gx/LSP plugins) and for gaming. Can't imagine going back to Windows, which I have to use on my work notebook for the time being.
Windows 10. Why? Because 80% of my creative software doesn't work on Linux and I dislike Apple products.
21 years on Linux, because master race
Are you aware that the term master race is borrowed from Nazi ideology?
I'm back to Windows 10 (now 11) on my main PC since I bought an Xbox and there's hassle-free Cloud gaming, crossplay etc.
When I exclusively played on PC and built the new Machine, I was too cheap to buy a Windows licence. I tried Pop!OS because I like their gaming-focussed apporach. All games that were relevant to me (via Steam, mostly) worked fine.
I've since bought a Steam Deck, so I'm running SteamOS as well.
To be fair who really buys Windows licences unless it's a business or an org
I did... for a very discounted price. Call me lazy if you want, but I didn't want the hassle to source another version.
Is Steam OS a full featured OS? I didn't think you could do much outside of running Steam and its games.
I can't really say. It has a desktop component but it's not the main focus. I've seen setups of people who only use the Deck as their PC, but they mostly don't do much aside from browsing the internet in desktop mode (Firefox is preinstalled). It's pretty nice that you can plug it into a USB-C Dock and have it connect to screens, keyboard and mouse.
I'm no expert on customizing linux, but you probably can get some usual features to work on SteamOS.
I have tried various distros over the last 15 years, starting with Ubuntu, debian, Crunchbang(alltime-favorite), Arch, Fedora and so on. Currently with Linux Mint. Just works and I like the Debian environment.
MacOS on laptop and workstation (Mac Mini M1), windows in gaming PC, Proxmox on server.
Windows 10 for software compatibility and gaming, and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with Ubuntu for everything that has to do with programming. I think it's the best of both worlds.
I used to have a dual-boot system (Windows and Ubuntu) but WSL is easier to configure and very convenient.
you run GUI stuff in WSL? Or do you only use Bash?
Hate to say it, but Windows 10. My laptop doesn't support Windows 11 and Microsoft Office isn't available on linux (though I think I can do it with a windows vitual machine.) Also because of other apps like Proteus and Camtasia, or I would be on linux now. (Is it just me or are linux mint packages usually outdated?)
What about MS Office do you need? Are you a poweruser that is very much bound by the interface due to habit? Otherwise check out OnlyOffice, it works with docx xlsx etc natively. You can also try it on windows first.
I use Linux Mint and Windows 10. I'm kinda stuck on windows because I'm a gamer. I can run a fair share of my games on Linux but it requires a lot of compromises and there are some games that straight up don't work because of anti cheat.
I wanna go full Linux though.
Arch Linux. Its comfy. I like that I don't get spied on. Furthermore it is not made by a company and 100% community driven, which makes it the best Distro for my usecase!
Linux because it runs fast and does what I need it to.
Both Windows 11 and Arch Linux with KDE. I am using my PC mostly for gaming and drawing. Since almost all games in my steam library work without tinkering and Krita and Aseprite work like a charm I rarely use Windows 11 at the moment.
Windows, because of gaming, otherwise I'd use a Debian based distro or Fedora.
I use Debian on my servers.
What's holding you back with gaming on linux?
I've been there way back when windows 7 was nearing it's end of life. I'd been dual booting stock ubuntu for a while, and basically by the time proton got stable enough and win7 was officially dead, I chose to have Ubuntu be my default and keep win7 "just in case". About a year later I deleted the win7 partition because I hadn't used it and needed disk space for some bigger game :D
Sadly, if you do a lot of online gaming, Windows is still the way to go. If you're mainly a single player gamer like me, there really is no reason to stay tho. Everything just works on Linux (I use Nobara btw), with just a little tinkering from time to time for the stuff that just got released
Windows 10 and 11, with WSL 2 I get all the benefits of Linux with little drawbacks. I used to use various flavours of Linux for quite some time but I got really tired of maintaining that system so I went back to Windows. Unfortunately Windows "just works" while with Linux every update felt like rolling some dice to see if my system still boots with a GUI the next day. Currently I work 100% remotely, I can not afford to have my PC to just stop working for a day or more. For servers I keep using Linux and it has been rock solid for that. Maybe I will make an another attempt in the future, I have a notebook that I use to try some distros. So far nothing impressed me enough to try to make the switch again.
Ubuntu at home (with sway), and unfortunately macOS for work (with its badly-broken and nonsensical window management)
Windows 11.
- Familiarity
- Tools, Software, Workflows
Over Windows 10: Up-to-date tech stack (not necessarily anything critical)
Bad over Windows 10: Breakage through new context menu, breakage of window bar (forced grouping, no window text), introduced window bar spacing to context menu actions
Downside over Linux: Restrictions (configuration, adjustments), Annoyances (pushing of MS software and tech)
Upside over Linux: Rich usage, gaming, software ecosystem, more of a straight-forward default and customizability over many distributed options and divergence(?), usability feels better.
Windows 11 for gaming, EndeavourOS for everything else
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.
Linux mint. I stopped doing any gaming and Windows has become an advertisement platform rather than an OS.
Also Gaming on Linux works pretty well nowadays thanks to Wine and Proton, which is why I dropped my last Windows partition about 3 years ago.
Windows 10 bc I play lots of games and it just runs. Not upgrading to Windows 11 bc I want to reinstall my PC when I do it but I don't want to do all that at the moment.
Fedora Silverblue, immutable, secure :)
Also using silverblue now but i must say it may not be for me. Everything is a little bit different and sometimes it's just annoying.
it takes a while to get used to but i can never go back to a traditional OS
Same here. Even using stable Debian seems so broken now.
Fedora is the most solid thing I've ever used. I use the KDE version on my desktop and silverblue on my laptop. Never have any problems
Why not Kinoite?
Kinonite is nice and all but on my desktop I am downloading packages far more often and I don't want to deal with the hassle of restarting my system every time. I know there are ways around that but eh
I've been experimenting with Kinoite for a while now on a VM (because my main computer has an Apple Silicon chip and running Linux on bare metal would be inconvenient), and keeping packages on a toolbox works pretty well, so no need to restart there.
If you need to layer packages with rpm-ostree and don't want to reboot, you can try the apply-live flag.
Plus, most of what I need can be found on Flathub.
Yes, layer as little apps as possible. Binary system-installing apps are a problem, but you should avoid these anyways. Also switching to hardened kernel and malloc are, but there is a project for that now in the "awesome user images" of ublue.it (not by them)
I'm still using Windows 10 on my personal computer. Oh I'll probably have to upgrade someday, some game or other program will come out with exclusivity of some kind and I'll eventually install Windows 11. But for the most part, I don't want to fuck with it, everything works and I really just don't want the hassle.
Running Linux Mint on an old laptop, mostly because it's too old to decently run Windows 10. Don't use it for much, mostly troubleshooting things.
At work the laptops are Windows 10 and I don't think there's a push to update. Of course all the servers are Redhat Enterprise Linux, and that's where the majority of my work takes place.
So actually companies using RHEL! I only know of the giants like Meta leeching on CentOS, which drives me nuts.
Right now use Windows 10 on my PC. Not interested in 11 at all. I've been thinking about buying an old chromebook and tossing Linux (probably Mint) on it. A friend made one of those and I thought it was really neat. Just gotta find the time, I suppose.
Be aware that
- The storage is insane. Chromebooks you can afford have unupgradeable 128GB max
- The processors are often pretty bad, no GPU and all
- The keyboards are horrible. There are so many missing keys, will be horrible on Linux.
- The BIOS is an intense hack. Having Tianocore on modern Hardware is for sure awesome, but if it fails there is pretty much noone to help you.
- This hardware is often bullshit. Glued together, no replacement parts, ports soldered to the mainboard. I saw a video of a repairguy ranting and sent my Acer Chromebook back.
If you get an affordable one, do it! But dont waste money on that.
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