EoS is just Arch, there is nothing much there that makes it different from Arch. People have this misconception that the difficulty of Arch is installing, when in reality long term maintenance is the real hurdle & EoS is 100% the same in that regard.

I'm not using Debian on any of my main PCs, but it's the only Linux distro that pretty much never breaks within it's 2 year LTS cycle, BTRFS is not needed. Ubuntu has minor breakages every once in a while.

Debian, on both my various servers and desktop. It just works.

And Flatpak for

...random confusion and installed-state SoT breaks.

Worked with/on Linux and Unix since kernel 1.2.13. This is a popularity contest, but I'll play.

Desktop: nobara44 (fedora) - putty-not-xterm, steam, lutris, chrome, seamonkey . Will consider PCLinuxOS

Day job: Solaris11, EL7(tuxcare)/9/10 , private stuff.

Night job: EL6 :-( , EL7(tuxcare)/9/f44 - putty, cinc, gitlab-ci-terraform, proxmox, vsphere, ollama

My old experienced ass does not like to futz so I run lazy setups. I was using zorin before but since I wanted to play games I went to bazzite but I also like the immutable philosophy.

Been running fedora for over a decade now. New packages, stable, newest gnome. No complaints at all.

I use pikaos as my daily. Its based on debian unstable (which lets be honest plenty of stable for a desktop) but with the cachyos kernel.

Debian here. I used Mint after ditching Ubuntu around 2010. For some reason, when I upgraded the drives in my internal RAID1 from 2TB to 14TB a fresh Mint only recognized 999GB... Ubuntu too (tried just out of curiosity). Grandma Debian recognized the full size so I installed and stayed. That was 2022ish. No complaints.

It is a old (2013?) mobo / firmware RAID, not a "true" RAID, and those are known to be a bit odd.

Debian is great, especially if you don't need the bleeding-edge versions of things. And if you need a couple things more up-to-date, there are usually appimages or flatpaks available.

My personal daily driver is CachyOS. I do a fair bit of gaming and need recent versions of things, and I've found it to be stable for me. It's not one I would recommend to everyone, though.

Mint. Been about 2 years I think so far. No real problems

I have two machines running Bazzite and two running Debian. I've got KDE on both Debian machines and GNOME on one because I don't mind it.

Debian is good enough to use as a daily driver for me. I don't have the deepest IT background so I'm not playing around with configuration files or anything. The only issues I ran into with it was an earlier version of Firefox that didn't support multiple profiles in the same way as the current version, and there was something else that wasn't preinstalled that I just had to download. Otherwise, all good.

And Flatpak for anything cutting edge

anyone running vanilla debian for desktop?

Yes. I don't want Linux finicky bits getting into the way of my everyday productivity, and Debian just works™. It's great because it just sits there and does its job

Same. First thing I do is disable snaps. Other than snaps, I’ve not run up against anything annoying Ubuntu has done (that I’m aware of).

Also been using Kubuntu a lot more lately because it has some neat applications. I love how plain XFCE is though. XFCE and KDE such great DEs.

I love Fedore KDE for daily driver, but I confess to falling (back?) To Debian Gnome for a lot of what I'm doing now. And I agree, Ubuntu's "quirks" finally pushed me into Fedora.

I've used Arch with Cinnamon as the DE for the last five(ish) years. I used to run Mint (which is what got me onto Cinnamon) on my previous desktop but figured I'd try something else. I'd often come across helpful info on the Arch wiki when I needed to look stuff up so decided I might as well go with that, and it's worked out fine (ok, I did get the system to not boot fully once due to an update issue, but I sorted it without reinstalling).

Debian is fine for daily driving. I was doing that for a while before switching to openSUSE Tumbleweed for newer components (I was goofing around with Podman quadlets and needed later systemd bits).

Traveling a lot right now, so I just changed to openSUSE Slowroll for a slower pace of rolling, and smaller download size.

Been using Linux Mint - Cinnamon starting over two years ago just before Spring. Made the decision to take the plunge when at the time, Windows 10 was going to lose support in 2025 and hated the idea of upgrading to Windows 11. Glad I made that leap, because it's been a pretty good experience and everything felt like a breath of fresh air, especially since you can actually change the fonts of everything on the desktop as well like you could Windows 7 and earlier iterations of that OS and I can even still do the gaming that I enjoy, what with proton and even Heroic.

Even decided to get a 1TB drive for my Zenbook and pop Linux Mint onto that. Since then, no computers I have, be it laptop, or even netbook have any iteration of Windows.

As for the netbook, an EEE PC 1000HE model, I would take it with me to a library just to mess about with it, which has MX Linux running on it, which sadly the 32-bit version will lose support in 2028, which is a bit of a shame.

nixos for servers and laptops

bazzite for gaming desktops

I switched from Ubuntu to Fedora once I had enough of Ubuntu being weird. Very happy with Fedora in general. I know it's not a very enlightened suggestion.

I'm also curious how Gnome OS develops, but I'm not sure I would go there yet.

Have been dying to dump it for ages but been travelling a lot and just needed to not stuff with things and risk getting caught out. Been looking at LMDE today - looks interesting. I am home for a while now so will probably play with options. It's been a while

guiiiiiiix 🥰

Debian (stable, with necessary non free) for both desktop and laptops. XFCE. Solid as a rock.

I usually just run Xubuntu. I think it avoids most of the Canonical bullshit while still being close enough that everything that works on Ubuntu works on it. My main desktop and my old laptop are Xubuntu, and my work laptop is Ubuntu with a gnome plug-in to give me the top application bar like XFCE. But I'm obviously not too annoyed by Canonical.