Favorite: Debian First Distro Used: Redhat Distro You Want to Use in the Future: Debian Honorable Mention: Linux From Scratch Distro You Liked the Least: Redhat Distro You Currently Use: Debian The Distro You Used for the Longest Time: DebianUbuntu -> Mint.
I don’t know why I’d change, Mint just works. That’s all I ever wanted.
I love Ubuntu currently but I’m planning on switching. I just love the feel of it.
First? Redhat.
Used? Gentoo, Debian, Mepis, sidux, peppermint, mint, fedora, cachyos, puppy, damnsmall, evil entity, suse, opensuse, Slackware, arch, and who knows how many more.
Using right now: Debian, fedora, cachyos, opensuse, Slackware. Different distro depending on need and device.
Favorite? Real soft spot for mepis, it made it easy back in the day. Fedora right now: it always just works, there is nothing to do just update and move on. Also Debian. Because Debian.
Worst: Ubuntu. Such a piece of crap, always breaking since first release.
TBH I have trouble telling why so many people in this thread complain about Ubuntu breaking, it always Just Works™ for me. Did they form their opinion around 2010, or are they using the six-monthly releases? I always used Ubuntu LTS (and never the default desktop).
Started with their first release. So broken compared to everything else at that time.
Now on new releases to this day it still throws weird errors or doesnt work as expected AT INSTALL. Usually reboots will fix some of those issues, sometimes I don’t even know if they are real issues, but it just shows Canonical doesnt make a very good product.
Then sooner or later, with Canonical not able to keep an idea longer than 6 months, something else will break. Its just the Ubuntu way.
Seems like their server version is better, I can’t really complain about it. I don’t have to interact with it much, but it behaves a lot better.
Also, Xbuntu and Kbuntu somehow fared better than Ubuntu, much less problems.
People are/were actually using the default Ubuntu desktop, and modern Gnome in general? In a fediverse linuxmemes community?
Granted, it still doesn’t speak well for them if their default desktop has so many issues that don’t exist on the flavors.
lol.
All my complaining about Ubuntu and yet I kind of liked Unity. I had it on a guest computer and a laptop for awhile.
I actually liked the orange colors. I liked the fonts. I even liked early unity as an alternative to gnome back then.
But it just kept changing!
It did have some design wins, I still use Ubuntu mono as my standard terminal font (this includes my Debian systems).
- Favorite: Gentoo
- First Distro Used: Ubuntu
- Distro You Want to Use in the Future: NixOS
- Honorable Mention: Debian
- Distro You Liked the Least: Ubuntu
- Distro You Currently Use: Gentoo
- The Distro You Used for the Longest Time: Gentoo
Where is nixos my old friend?
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favorite: chimera linux <3 currently using: gentoo least favorite: ubuntu
ever since i tried to apt install firefox and was instead given the snap version without even being asked permission i gave up on ubuntu then and there
Favourite/Current Distro/Distro I’ve used the most: Arch btw.
Distro liked the least: Ubuntu
First Distro Used: Corel Linux (I am old lol)
Honourable Mention: Pop!OS with the COSMIC desktop is pretty nice considering how new it is IMO.
Future Distro: I’ve messed around with NixOS a bit and I kind of want to try it. I like to tinker a lot though so sometimes immutable OS-es kind of interfere with that.
First: ubuntu favorite: nixos distro I like the least: ubuntu Distro I currently use: nixos distro I used for longest time: arch honorable mention: bazzite/aurora Distro I want to use in the future: redox with nixos
i’m a recent nixos convert… I think once they improve the ux a bit it’s literally the best of all worlds. fantasic idea. UX and documentation issues take a lot of patience though… a lot.
The first distro I used was SuSE (yes, before there was “Open” in the name 😅) on a Pentium III
I spent many years on Arch, but it don’t think it’s the distro I used the most any longer…
The distro I am using now is Fedora Workstation, which has been my daily driver for a dozen years now, and it’s also my favorite distro.
The distro I’ll be using in the future may be Silverblue
The distro I hate the most… is Ubuntu 😆 I had so many troubles over the years with this one, there was always something nonfunctional
My honorable mention: CachyOS looks pretty nice 😉
As for all the distros I tried… there’s way too many 😅
Somewhat accurate for me, but I dabbled with Ubuntu, Debian and Alpine for my server so idk if that counts, otherwise my first distro was Arch but the distro I recommend to everyone as their first is Mint+Cinnamon, especially if they’re used to Windows
Funny, Debian is the reason I came to Arch in the first place and never really left. I like Debian, but once you need more recent versions of something, things quickly get messy.
My journey was: Ubuntu, Debian, ChrunchBang, ArchBang, Arch. Not a big fan of distro hopping, so I’ll probably stay like this or try Fedora if ever I want something non-rolling again.
Loved Crunchbang! Bunsenlabs is a neat successor, too.
Favorite: Debian Stable (For my uses, it was the least trouble)
First: Slackware (1995, installed from floppy disks, also a short stretch in 2009)
Current: Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) (Using because I need to support users on stock Mint)
Distro you liked the least: Novell SuSE (Used in a corporate setting)
Distro you want to use in the future: Unknown
Distro you used for the longest time: Debian Stable (15 years)
Distro everyone likes but I don’t: Ubuntu
Honorable mention: DietPi (RaspberryPi and SBC focused OS)
Over time, I’ve used quite a lot of different distros: Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise, Scientific, CENTOS, Fedora, Mandrake, Damn Small, Puppy, CrashBang, Raspbian, Bazzite, to name just the ones I can remember off the top of my head now.
I’ve never seen an infographic for “I use arch, btw.” until now.
oh come on. I don’t ever say it outside of meme contexts. I just personally enjoy rolling releases and don’t really like the corporate feeling of Fedora, so i’m left with only really Arch as a good option.
Or, as honourably mentioned, OpenSuSE, specifically tumbleweed.
Just lighthearted poking, I don’t have anything bad to say about anyone’s choices. I didn’t mean any offense. Sorry if that was its tone.
No, no don’t worry, no offense taken 😅 I should have expected it lol
Fedora is corporate? I nearly spat my coffee ;-)
I’m flashing back to working with suse on unitedlinux and the challenges we had. If you want a very Corporate distro, it’s right there.
Never again.
Fedora is the most corporate not-actually-corporate distro
I mean… fedora is RHEL, which is very corporate
Other way around mostly…
Fedora trys stuff first.
Funny that it’s not a rolling distro, yet it is often ahead of my cachyos box. It’s astounding how fast fedora puts stuff out yet never any effort on my part to manage it. Unlike cachy or even arch.
