cliché question, but hey why not?
Debian, because I know they won’t pull a redhat ever. They do things the right way for things that matter.
Been on Ubuntu since forever but I’m seriously considering debian. What, in your view, would be the biggest advantages (or disadvantages, if any) for debian over ubuntu?
Drivers and kernel modules. Debian with “proprietary drivers enabled” works on about as much stuff as Ubuntu without proprietary drivers enabled. I’ve never got it working without issues on a laptop. You’ll definitely be avoiding drivers that probably have government backdoors if you’re using Debian but it comes at a price.
Arch is ironically easier to deal with in this regard. To give credit where credit is due, Debian is very stable. Once you install it on a sever, it won’t break on its own. It may be harder to get all your hardware working but once you do, if you never upgrade you’ll never have to mess with it again.
Mint, because I’m a basic bitch.
OpenSuse Tumbleweed. A rolling release distro with a ton of quality assurance work already done for it. (Open)Suse is actually a family of distros so if I ever need a stable or enterprise distro that I’m already familiar with, I have Leap and SLES respectively.
NixOS. I’ve been running Linux since Slackware 1.0, since then have run Debian, LFS, RedHat, CentOS, Gentoo, Arch and Ubuntu. After years of Ubuntu I discovered NixOS and after diving deep into it, have never been happier with a distro. All of my machines and dot files are in a straightforward single language in a git repo. The mutable parts of all my applications are nicely isolated and backed up and I can make changes to my systems fearlessly. It has a very steep learning curve, but it’s amazing.
NixOS all day: unimaginably stable, fun to mess around with, shared configs (including dotfiles) on every device, I really like it.
Debian Stable. It doesn’t break with updates, it doesn’t break when I try to customize it, it has all the software you could ever want, and it just works. It’s robust, elegant, and free forever.
For most people I’d recommend a derivative like Mint, Q4OS, or SpiralLinux, since those smooth out a sometimes annoying setup process, but for me vanilla Debian is perfect.
I love love love Debian
I use Arch (btw) because for me it just works. Minimal system packages, most things installed as flatpaks.
Running Ubuntu w Mate desktop on laptop and PC. Debian for servers. I need all my weird devices to just work and Ubuntu has the best compatibility. PopOS seems nice, but if I run Mate for me DE, it doesn’t really matter, AFAIK.
Arch on my desktop because I customize it to how I like and don’t care if something breaks (rarely does). And linux mint on my laptop because I need a more reliable distro when taking my laptop to work.
Arch Linux.
Arch, Debian, Ubuntu and its derivatives, Manjaro, a bit of NixOS, Tails. I don’t need to explain “Why?” since I don’t use em for personal preference, but more like “when I’m forced to.”.
Gentoo because it’s
systemdfree-ish. Also because it has good support for musl and clang.Fedora
arch because it was more viable of a rolling release when i installed it 10 years ago
