Debian. Always have, always will
Endeavour, fixing issues is easy enough.
Yes I have the arch logo as a wallpaper of my PC and my phone why do you ask?
hell yeah, endeavour is such an underrated arch distro, almost plug and play
running kde?
Yep, I’ll admit that I kind of gnomified it with the super button opening the overview (not slow since 6.0), but that’s kind of the point of KDE, we can do what we want.
NixOS, surprised nobody mentioned it
Gentoo for the last 20+ years. Slackware before that.
Ran something or other off dual floppy drives at some point in the ancient times… A boot diskette and a root diskette.
Flaked NixOS unstable
Mint!
… alright, go ahead and shoot.
All my homies love mint, just because it’s friendly doesn’t mean it’s bad!
Mint is the basic bitch of distros. Sure she shows up in fugly ugs, leggings, gripping a pumpkin spice drank. But she shows up! Works hard. That girl fucks! Make no mistake, basic bitches make the world go round.
Mint is the shit!
F-that! Take pride… Mint is ridiculously good. Well managed, stable, “just works” and yet has all the capabilities you want, including auto-running near the edge for current kernels (backed down to stable) without doing jack. You can run at the bleeding edge if you want to manage it yourself.
And for any haters - here’s my take: I’ve been working with Unix for 30+ years, I installed Slackware off of floppies when 16MB of RAM was god-like. I have built, compiled and managed nearly every distro at some point certainly the upstream giants. I’ve been there for the birth of all of them. I’ve also professionally worked on AIX, SunOS/Solaris, HPUX. Yes there’s a lot of fun in maintaining and running things to your satisfaction, but when you hit a certain inflection point of balancing your real life and maintaining distros across multiple machines and decide “This is the way” - Mint just fits the bill on so many levels.
Mint is the bomb and I’m done pretending. Fight me (not you, OP, you’re cool)
20+ year Linux user here. Fuck it, I ain’t got time to manage dumb shit. Install and go, please.
Though I am curious about LMDE.
LMDE - the emergency escape hatch for mint. gotta love the forethought.
LMDE is the same, just debian. You can’t really tell the difference.
Started on the 'buntu in 2005 or 2006. Distro hopped for a decade until I found Solus. That had some dark times a few years ago but seems to be back now but I moved to Debian anyway. Feels right.
Arch, but not fully installed. Just persistently in installation process.
Arch with extra steps, AKA CachyOS.
Debian 12
It’s just so good
It really is
Debian Busta!
D - to the E - to the ma’ fuckin’ BIAN
First? Mandrake.
Now? Debian.
Debian 12
Started with OpenSuse, then Mandrake, then looong time Debian, now back to OpenSuse TW
Debian :)