Asklemmy

My main rig and my 3D printing rig are on windows 10, they would be 11 but I'd have to enable to the TPM on both to make it happen and I'm lazy.

My server is on Linux because server. It's currently running TrueNAS Scale and I'm thinking I might spin up some other things considering it's got 24 cores and 200 GB of ram it really should be doing more than just being a NAS.

Windows 10... I have Mint dual booted, but couldn't bother to make video games work on it and have used it maybe a few dozen hours at most. School had some fairly Windows-centric materials as well that made it hard to transfer over.

Hate to say it, but Windows 10. My laptop doesn't support Windows 11 and Microsoft Office isn't available on linux (though I think I can do it with a windows vitual machine.) Also because of other apps like Proteus and Camtasia, or I would be on linux now. (Is it just me or are linux mint packages usually outdated?)

Windows 10 because I can't upgrade to 11 for some arbitrary reason. I tried Ubuntu years ago but it was so much work trying to get it to just work that it really put me off. So unless the Linux ecosystem improved and by a wide margin and it has decent support for the software I use, I don't think I'm changing anytime soon.

Windows 11. It works better on my new machine even thogh I had to do extra steps to suppress the tracker and such.

Ubuntu / Kubuntu.

I tried Arch (Manjaro) for a while but was totally lost every time it broke down, which it did a lot. Every update felt like a gamble. The AUR is great but I need more stability.

Windows 11 on the desktop with an Ubuntu VM, Ubuntu on a Lenovo laptop, and Linux Mint on an HP 13.

macOS

I’ve been a Mac user since college. I’ve got a lot of utilities and software that I’m very comfortable with, my brain is mapped to the keyboard shortcuts, and I enjoy the UX. There’ve been a couple bumpy patches in the last twenty years, but never enough to cause me to give up on the platform.

macOS - because it just works and I like a clean, consistent ui.

I tried Windows, again and again - and it just feels like Microsoft is incapable of designing a ui that is consistent. Drives me crazy.

Linux, well. I like to run it on servers. I love it. But on the desktop it remains a pain. Yes, a lot has improved over the years. But there is still a long way to go before I would consider it user friendly. And the worst part: I do not see how a consistent ui would even be possible.

Fedora Kinoite from ublue.

Windows is a pain to use. Its uncustomizable, lacks pretty much all its features after making it semi-private. Apps look horrible, theming is nonexistent for the apps I use. All the apps I use in exchange of the Windows shit are also available on Linux.

So I distrohopped, stayed with KDE all the time. Everything broke but I also didnt want "stable" outdated software, until Wayland, fractional scaling and more are fixed.

Fedora Kinoite is very up-to-date, and its OSTree model is similar to git. You have an immutable system image that you can change by layering or removing RPM software, but you should do that as little as possible.

The ublue team takes care of adding Codecs and NVIDIA drivers, so client-side layering can stay minimal. This means reproducible bugs, always. You can reset the system, you have atomic updates (either it fails or succeeds) and you can save as many versions as you want.

Updates run in the background, you get your Software through Flatpak (which is more uptodate, isolated and officially supported anyways), its pretty awesome.

I dual boot Windows 10 and EndeavorOS on my PC for gaming and project work respectively.

Fedora, because it's constantly up to date and it f a s t (except when updating)

Windows 11 on my desktop for gaming. Manjaro Linux on my laptop for most other things.

Windows 11 for gaming, EndeavourOS for everything else

Win 11 on my desktop and laptop. Unraid on my home server.

Windows 11 for CAD and other stuff that's Windows exclusive. Would love to get steamOS off the steamdeck though, I used it as a temporary desktop and it rocked

Archcraft. It's beautiful.

Debian, windows 10, macos and osx, 9front.

Windows 11 on my main desktop, Debian + KDE on my garage desktop, and Debian on my home server and cloud server.

Elementary OS because I like Arch, but I want things to be a bit more creature comfortable.

I am on Mac OS El Monterey for audio production work, and Windows 10 for general productivity/gaming.

I love Fedora, but found battery life less than optimal, and many of the programs I need for employment simply do not have Linux versions.

My main laptop is on Gentoo, my gaming PC on EndeavourOS, server runs proxmox, and i use a Mac at work

Windows 10 - work PC because I have to + WSL

Arch - Service laptop - because I hate my free time(just kidding BTW)

PopOS - personal laptop - because of nvidia and gaming

Linux Mint - family laptop - because of maintenance and stability

Ubuntu - Server...well I'm lazy