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@crunched I'll go first! 😂
My preferred OS is LInux running CRUX, sadly I am unable to use this anymore. At one point my Desktop Environment (DE) of choice was the wonderful Xfce 👌 Very lovely desktop environment really.
My compromise is macOS as it has the best accessibility and full screen zoom and high quality hi-rpi font rendering of any Desktop/Laptop in the world.
@crunched I'll go first! 😂
My preferred OS is LInux running CRUX, sadly I am unable to use this anymore. At one point my Desktop Environment (DE) of choice was the wonderful Xfce 👌 Very lovely desktop environment really.
My compromise is macOS as it has the best accessibility and full screen zoom and high quality hi-rpi font rendering of any Desktop/Laptop in the world.
@crunched
machines: nixos or arch. de is i3 with a lot of customisation
servers: debian but quickly shifting to alpine
@prologic why are you unable to use it? accessibility reasons? Unfortunate you can't use your favorite.
archlinux w/ i3wm for me 🙂
@crunched Main machine runs FreeBSD, second one runs Alpine Linux (the only sane distro imho), the last one runs MX Linux
@taigrr nice choice! also i'm watching grlx, looks really great
@novaburst i'm starting to feel that sanity with alpine. as much as i enjoy declarative configuration with nix, it's like an erector set gone mad.
@prologic now imagine for a moment if you stripped proxmox virt layer and ran swarm on 3x metal. that would indeed be metal af and a bit of warp-speed.
guys im 100% ubuntu and ios on phone macbook vps and ipad. but, im feeling da call of arch. especially after update+upgrade my ubuntu/macpro and it takes 5 minutes to like… update thunderbird(???) guis overrated? I’m getting more and more butthurt about the modern web, switched from firefox to links (lol). might be arch time
@crunched I use Arch Linux almost exclusively. I like to do periodic reinstalls on my main machine, though, and I've already decided I'm moving to Artix next time. For now, even with Systemd, it's a pretty minimal system. No display manager, OpenDoas instead of Sudo, etc.
@will Do it, you won't regret it.
My VPSes run Ubuntu. Once I get a home server set up, I'll probably install Artix on that too.
OpenBSD on the desktop, OpenBSD on the server, Void Linux as a Linux.
OpenBSD on the desktop, OpenBSD on the server, Void Linux as a Linux. Void as opposed to Alpine because of the GNU userland and libc, I've encountered some compiling issues with musl also I'm not a big fan of how busybox packs everything in one binary although it does have speed benefits. Also, given that I run OpenBSD, it's good to have something that "most" UNIX-y software runs on.
@crunched Fedora with GNOME. Since I’m too old and grumpy to faff around with configurations nowadays. 😅
It works for me. I used to be hip and with it and use Alpine with i3.
For mobile devices I use an iPhone. For servers I have a Synology and only just recently procured a NUC so I’m going to have a crack at setting that up with something…
Void Linux with dwm on my main laptop. I have Arch Linux (also dwm) on an old ThinkPad X200 too.
@crunched I'm on Debian with i3 as the window manager. Can't complain too much about this setup.
@crunched my Linux history went from Slackware 1998ish-2000 to Debian for a couple of years, to Fedora Core (as it was called back then, not CoreOS), back to Debian for many many years until I discovered FreeBSD and used that for a couple of years until the minimalist bug hit me…
Went to Alpine, but now I’m back to Fedora. I do have a soft spot for Debian but I prefer rolling releases and I refuse to use Ubuntu.
In between those linux stages I was also quite the avid PC gamer so I was usually dual booting between Linux and Windows XP. Once XP was EOL I went Linux full time.
Quite the adventure! My current laptop is still kicking butt after 6ish years of going from FreeBSD to Alpine to Fedora hahaha!
@crunched Arch on desktops/laptops (because I’ve been using it since 2008 and I’m way too lazy for change; I’d go for Void these days, but meh, Arch works fine, too; it’s possible, though, that Arch drops support for my CPU at some point) and OpenBSD on servers (because of its stability, i.e. few changes; secure by default).
@crunched Arch on desktops/laptops (because I’ve been using it since 2008 and I’m way too lazy for change; I’d go for Void these days, but meh, Arch works fine, too; it’s possible, though, that Arch drops support for my CPU at some point) and OpenBSD on servers (because of its stability, i.e. few changes; secure by default).
@crunched Arch on desktops/laptops (because I’ve been using it since 2008 and I’m way too lazy for change; I’d go for Void these days, but meh, Arch works fine, too; it’s possible, though, that Arch drops support for my CPU at some point) and OpenBSD on servers (because of its stability, i.e. few changes; secure by default).
@crunched Windows on GamingPC, w/ some basic things like browsing, writing without switching to my MBA which is my main MacOS PC. I'm using macOS for almost 15 years. It's my daily driver for all things programming, writing blog posts&email. If gaming on macOS would be as strong as it is on Windows, I would switch immediatelly. I did in the past with WoW and Eve Online which are native to macOS. I do also have a Debian 11 installation, but only for testing. Running Debian 10 on my homelab. Was using Arch&Manjaro before, but lots of problems w/ the GPU.
@crunched How to start a war, with only 5 words ? "What is your favorite OS?" :D
@tkanos “… and why is it ReactOS?” 🤣
Personally, I run Windows 11 for gaming/recreation, for sysadmin tasks I use a Debian image via WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) and I've recently changed my servers over to Ubuntu Server; I used to run them on Debian but thought I'd give Ubuntu Server a try for a while. Oh, and trusty Android for mobile (Samsung Galaxy Fold2) which serves me well for my everyday needs. I've been meaning to try out a Linux mobile OS (Ubuntu Touch or PineOS) but I don't have any supported devices laying around and not enough monetary resources to throw around on a PinePhone or Librem 5.
I use NixOS on my main desktop and laptop, raspbian on my raspberry pi 2 (probably switching to NixOS there too).
I have an old 512Mb SD card with TinyCore Linux I use for recovery on my and other pc and a CD for older PCs with Porteus for the same reason.