Which Linux distro do you use and why?

Linux on Laptops
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  • Debian
  • Ubuntu
  • Linux Mint
  • Arch
  • Fedora
  • NixOS
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I’m interested which linux distro you guys use as a daily drive:)

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I started off on Bazzite and found there were some things I wanted to do that I couldn’t because of Bazzite being immutable so went with Fedora as I had had a pretty good experience with Bazzite so thought I would get a similar experience with Fedora.

Bazzite was definitely more beginner friendly out of the box with everything just working while Fedora was by no means hard or broken I just had to do a little more (installs some codecs) to get it to the same as Bazzite was out of the box.

For a new person like myself I would have no problems recommending Bazzite as a daily driver for general computing (web, documents, videos and games).

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I am running Ubuntu 26.04 on my primary desktop and Pop!OS on my laptop. I started with Raspian since a Pi5 was my first device I owned with Linux. My work initially gave me a test workstation with Mint installed, but I only used it for a week or so while I waited for my Pi to show up. I put a Ubuntu VM on my windows desktop at home pretty quickly and used WSL for a while too. I was able to get a old Intel MacBook running with Ubuntu for a while but could never get the sound running 100% of the time. Once I had my Framework 13 laptop I ran Fedora on it before moving to Pop!OS. The main reason I choose Ubuntu is that I was having an issue with my Fedora and KDEPlasma freezing after installing my ARC GPU. Once I updated to Ubuntu 26.04, all the issues went away with my ARC GPU.

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Hi Peoples.
Windows user for 40ish years. Linux convert for almost 1 year.

Systems:

  1. MB: Asus ROG Strix B450-F Gaming
    CPU: Ryzen 5 2600x
    RAM: 32GB
    GPU: NVIDIA GTX 950
    NIC: ASUSTec 1GB
    NVME: 1TB Intel
    Display: dual monitors
    OS: Linux Mint 22.3
  1. MB: ASUS Z170 Pro Gaming
    CPU: 7thGen Intel i5-6600K
    SSD: 250GB Kingston
    RAM: 16GB
    NIC: Intel IGB
    GPU: NVIDIA GTX 950
    OS: none yet
  1. MB: HP 2AFA 27-k119 27: All-in-One from 2015
    CPU: Intel Core i7-4765T
    RAM: 12GB
    GPU: 4thGen IGU Intel Xeon E3-1200
    GPU: NVIDIA GT 730M Kepler
    NIC Broadcom 1GB
    HDD: 1TB Seagate
    Display:27" touchscreen
    OS: Linux Mint 22.3
  1. MB: Samsung Laptop 700Z5C-S01 from 2012
    CPU: Intel Core i7-3615QM
    RAM: 8GB DDR3 1600Mhz
    GPU: NVIDIA GT640M
    NIC: 1GB
    SSD: 500GB Samsung
    Display:15" laptop
    OS: Zorin OS_18

EXTRAS (currently in the Ryzen system#1)

NIC: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GB
HDD: 10TB WD RED (Brand new)
HDD: 4TB WD (3TB Videos and pictures)
HDD: 1TB SAMSUNG
HDD: 1TB USB SAMSUNG

  • I have had a lot of fun setting up these systems and using LLM Anthropic and Gemini to help with problems and provide step by step solutions. I have gotten STEAM set up on 2 of the systems. I have been able to get Truecrypt, and VPN-UNLIMITED set up and working. I have gotten my 2 Google Drives set up in the file manager. I have gotten the 27" all-in-one touchscreen set up and working along with it’s Beats audio. AI was a tremendous help in all of this.

    I am gathering the courage to set up System 2 with a lot of the EXTRAS, as a home server that will run

  • Docker

  • Jellyfin

  • possible CASAOS

  • pihole

  • Immach

  • fileserver for home network file sharing and backups of 7 systems we have currently running

Looking forward to the experience