Asklemmy

I have 2 laptops (work and personal) and both run Arch Linux.

Reason:

• Rolling release
• AUR
• ArchWiki

At home? Manjaro Linux. When I was looking to learn Linux I compared different distro's and decided that one seemed the nicest combo between ease, stability, and power. Overwrote my Windows on my school laptop and figured "now I have to learn".

Over the years I tried some others like Ubuntu (and related) Debian (and related), and Kali. But I never found them as nice to use. But to be honest, since I'm quite content I'm not distrohopping too much and most where tried out of necessity.

Been running Manjaro for a few years now as main OS everywhere on my own computers, with only a minimal Windows installation on a separate SSD for the few games that don't work smoothly on Linux yet. At this moment, only 4 are left, mainly due to mods that don't run in Linux rather than the games itself.

Still got a Windows laptop for work, as it's necessarily there. Also got a few Linux servers there as well tho, to which I connect remotely when needed.

Windows 11 because I'm a gamer

I used windows for years but i'm Mac now.

Mainly switched because I have an iphone, apple watch, and airpods so it just seemed to make sense.

It does hurt browsing steam now though. CONSTANTLY finding tons of games I want to play and then they're windows only. ):

used a chromebook for a while, that just sucked all around.

Arch Linux and Windows 10 dual boot.

Generally, I like Linux because it's FOSS and I can use i3wm. Arch Linux specifically because the AUR makes installing software really easy. Almost everything I use is available there.

I keep Windows for programs that don't work under Wine. I haven't touched this disk for some time because all of my Windows programs work on Wine now.

I have three laptops.

My late-2010s home laptop runs Debian 11, because strangely nothing else will boot anymore.

My late-2000s ThinkPad runs Arch, because I like pacman and a ThinkPad like that needs a hackery OS. BSD, Slackware, Void and Gentoo would also fit, but I prefer Arch.

My mid-2000s MacBook runs GNU Guix. Not really sure why I picked it, but it's a working system on fussy hardware, so I'm happy. However, being a Mac, this doesn't really count as a PC.

Windows 10 I have to use it at work, so I am also using it at home, Tried to switch to Linux about 20 years. But it did not meet my primary use case back then (mostly gaming), so I switched back. Nowadays I am on my PC so scarcely that it does not make any sense to me to use this limited time to get used to a new OS.

Windows 10 on my desktop. I game and work on it, and there are applications for my job that I can't get to work on Linux (even on Wine).

My laptop is on Linux (Endeavour OS). It's my portable device and I don't use it for work so Linux, imho, is my best choice. It's pretty old as well.

Right now use Windows 10 on my PC. Not interested in 11 at all. I've been thinking about buying an old chromebook and tossing Linux (probably Mint) on it. A friend made one of those and I thought it was really neat. Just gotta find the time, I suppose.

I had a windows 7 desktop that I muddled through the process of setting up a dual boot with Ubuntu. I could not get certain programs to work that I needed to use for work, so just left that partition in place and went back to Windows 7. Partly because I'm not OS tech savvy and not certain how to remove it and partly because I have a new computer that is Windows 10 and is my daily driver now. The Windows 7/Ubuntu computer is now just sitting in the spare room running an RTL-SDR dongle using Windows 7 as an AIS feeder. I'd set that up on the Ubuntu partition but haven't had a chance to learn how to do that yet.

Arch Linux

• AUR
• Up to date packages + AUR, so no need to manually install things or search for third party repositories
• Arch wiki
• I started using it and it works
• etc.

Windows 11

• laptop ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Windows 11 for gaming and SuSE Tumbleweed for work and development, mostly Rust.

Only thing preventing me from gaming on SuSE is that the speakers on my Asus Strix laptop sounds godawful on Linux and the microphone is full of static crackle.

Fell in love with macOS since I started using it in elementary school. Been using macOS as my primary OS for many years now, with Windows 11 for gaming whenever I decide to game on my PC (which isn't too often) and I also have a Chromebook that I put EndeavourOS on just for fun.

Fedora. Why? Because its the best!

NixOs everywhere except my phone. It takes about 2 hours to go from blank drive to 100% identical device when a drive fails. Can't beat it.

windows 10 desktop PC for ableton live, linux mint xfce laptop for productivity

Pi Desktop

Simple and fast

Linux since Windows XP. Windows Update broke me.