Arch + XFCE on my desktop. Have been for a while now, and everytime i try something else, I always come back to it. For my laptop, I've been using Gnome + extensions (Arch as well. That way I don't gotta switch gears and remember two different sets of commands) before i had to take it in for repairs. Was pretty good because of the mousepad gestures IMO.

Debian for a while, now Mint (I'm a Cinnamon freak)

For my main computers, I've moved them all to Arch from Manjaro & EndeavorOS within the past 4 years. Though been meaning to try OpenSUSE Tumbleweed eventually. Haven't used OpenSUSE in over 10 years.

I have a laptop running Proxmox for my servers, which is debian-based but uses a modified Ubuntu LTS kernel. Great to use to try out other distros in VMs as well.

I was using Fedora for about a year and it was great. Nice and stable, almost everything worked out of the box. Then I goofed up an update and had to install something new, and I chose Arch. Arch is working mostly fine, of course I had to learn a thing or two about how some subsystems worked but the Arch wiki is a wonderful resource. We’ll see how long this install lasts, it’s been smooth sailing for about a month now.

Debian with awesome at home. Fedora with cinnamon at work.

Fedora but I’m not loving it. Due to my hardware I think I’m limited to that, arch and openSuse.

OS/2

Void

Manjaro Gnome. It just works ;)

Garuda on my gaming desktop, fedora bazzite on my gaming laptop. Loving both to be honest.

Gentoo, running pure Wayland and Pipewire, no X11.

I'm about ready to hop back in and daily drive Linux again after the nightmare that was attempting debian w/KDE plasma and Wayland. I have a Nvidia GPU on my laptop and for some reason I did not have luck at all after moderate success daily driving opensuse tumbleweed and kubuntu for a while.

I'm admittedly looking to onboard myself to the gnome workflow and leave the comfort of the windows style desktop environment experience. Gnome seems a bit more polished and stable than KDE plasma but it's interface isn't intuitive to me yet.

Ideally I'll be using Debian or Arch when the time comes for me to dive back into desktop Linux.

Devuan (Debian without systemd), stable (Daedalus) with backports. Been running Debian since 2000, Devuan since 2018. I am at a point where I just want consistency and familiarity in my setup.

Edit: as far as cool new things, I have moved to pipewire for audio and leveraging a selfhosted nextcloud for web based file storage. For a personal setup (limited users) I just installed Nextcloud office which is basically Libreoffice in a browser like Google docs. I am also using mythtv with an hdhomerun for broadcast tv. None of this is really "new" but new to me. The setup of these functions has been fairly straightforward for me and I appreciate all the work these projects have put to make the setup and maintenance fairly painless.

I'm a Mint Cinnamon guy.

• Laptop: Opensuse slowroll with Sway
• Home PC: Arch with KDE
• Home server: Debian 12 (headless)

Nobara because I am a beginner that uses his PC primaryly for gaming

Debian Testing and Arch with KDE on the PC/Workstation.

Debian Stable on the server.

kubuntu

kde connect wasn't working on endeavouros with sway and i wanted something easy and debian based

Gentoo desktop but I have to use it over SSH a lot of the time since I'm stuck on my work macbook

Q4OS, for five years