The answer's always Debian. I use guix for packages, though it doesn't have as much stuff on it as nix.
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Mint on my desktop, decided to try out Tumbleweed on a cheap laptop. KDE wasn't for me / wasn't reliable enough, but I'm happy with Gnome. I haven't needed to use Flatpacks though.
Might try MicroOS on the servers, I like the idea of an immutable distro so less can go wrong during updates, and I run all services as containers anyway.
nixos + xmonad + xfce-no-desktop here. Its not for noobs perhaps but so stable and confidence inspiring.
Threads like this are exactly what keeps a good few of us from ever getting started. Lol. Good fun to read through though. One day I'll pick a distro and give it a whirl. Till then, thanks for the entertainment.
Mint for my daily driver, PopOS for my gaming machine. Happy with both.
I recently switched my laptop to Garuda, it's an Arch based gaming distro. It seems to mostly work right out of the box, but I did have to tweak a few steam games to force them to use my dedicated graphics.
I guess I could go in and force steam itself to use the graphics card via env... But I only have a handful of large games at the moment. It's just as easy to set the requirement per game right now.
I usw Garuda with KDE and like it lot, even though I do not game.
I daily Windows 11... though I use Ubuntu for servers and Mint for my linux desktops (older hardware that doesn't W11).
Another one for the endevour os team. Not looking to distro hop anytime soon.
I run Guix System on my personal laptop and Project Bluefin on my work machine.
Guix is even easier to get started with now thanks to the Guix Packager , a web UI for writing Guix package definitions.
Project Bluefin auto-updates thanks to its use of container images deliver system updates. It's also just a great platform to get started writing containerized apps, since it ships with rootless Podman by default and you can easily add new developer tools using just commands.
Linux Mint with a secondary partition running EndeavourOS
Neon is my daily driver. Planing on pop os after their new de
Qubes OS
I dual boot Qubes and Linux Mint (kinda two ends of a spectrum, I know).
Nobara on my gaming desktop, Fedora Kinoite on one laptop, Debian 12 on the other.
Fedora is what keep getting back to every time I get distro hopping fever. Either gnome or KDE It's wonderful!
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