What distro(s) do you use?

Debian. Several reasons:
It's trustworthy.
It's not going anywhere. Debian existed when I was a kid and it'll probably still exist when I draw my last breath.
I know how to use it, since, once again, I've been using it since I was a kid.
It has all the desktop environments.
It fully supports systemd. I do not miss the unreliability, slowness, and complexity of what came before that. (Normally I wouldn't mention this, but your former distro of choice exists solely for the purpose of not having systemd, so it's relevant this time.)
- The thought that Debian will continue into the future feels comforting. How cool it would be if in 5000AD kids on Mars or Europa are running Debian 100?

Arch Linux. Always very up-to-date and the AUR is huge. No dealing with PPAs or snaps or flatpaks or appimages. Just paru -S any-software-ever-made. Also very streamlined (systemd for everything lol) and well documented. I tried NixOS for a bit but it was very inconvenient in comparison and I felt like it was impossible to tinker with or understand if you weren't good at Haskell. Terrible documentation.
For servers it's definitely Debian + docker.
- I tried NixOS for a bit but it was very inconvenient in comparison and I felt like it was impossible to tinker with or understand if you weren’t good at Haskell.
  You don't need any haskell knowledge to configure a NixOS system. It's mostly just researching the right options and setting the desired values. Pretty simple. For more advanced stuff like custom modules, functional programming experience helps a lot but that's not necessary for installing packages and enabling services.
  Documentation isn't great but what it does have going for it is that it's right in the place where you configure it: In the NixOS options. Wanna configure systemd-boot? Just search for it: https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=23.05&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=systemd-boot
  It's self-documenting.

I use Debian with a patched version of motif window manager. The 90s never ended:
- As someone who uses mwm for work, I only have one question for you: Why?
  
  It's simple, easily customisable, and I like the big chiseled buttons.

I was a distro hopper once, then I saw the light of NixOS...
- Tell me about it...
  The only reason I might, in the distant future, ever consider changing again is this project, which hopefully would be something between NixOS and Qubes. But that is far in the future and not even that certain.

arch
- btw
- same, its pretty solid for a meme os. For anything else I usually use Debian.

Ubuntu for life. Unpopular opinion i know, please don't stone.
- When you take Pop_OS! into account?
- umm it's literally the most popular distro
  
  And yet everyone in r/linux and r/linuxmemes kept shitting on it

I have a few dozen computers and most run Pop!_OS.
- What's your second most commonly used distro?

EndeavourOS on my desktop, Red Hat and Ubuntu on servers(at work).

NixOS everywhere (except for one server which I have yet to migrate from Rocky to NixOS)

Garuuuuuda. Love it. Been running it for the past few years. The devs come off as assholes, but they're actually just German;)

Linux Mint, it just works

NixOS. Declarative config with opt-in state is awesome.
- Same here. It's made my life a whole lot easier since on previous distros, I had to depend on documenting manual hacks I had done.
- Fellow NixOS traveller. I used Nix for work and never saw the appeal of a whole OA built around it but when I saw a tutorial with the declarative config I was instantly sold.

Arch, Debian, NixOS, Fedora Silverblue, Raspbian, GrapheneOS[Android]

Linux Mint. Nothing beats your computer just working when you have shit to get done.
- Same. Mint, because n00b.

Been using NixOS for a couple months. It’s gotten easier to configure and change because of it, and new computers are super easy to setup because I can just change/apply the config and system wide changes will apply with one command!

I've been a daily fedora user for the half year. Initially I started off with ElementaryOS but it was so filled with bugs, and glitches, so it didnt last for more than a couple of months. While the fedora experience is way more streamlined.
- I had the same experience with ElementaryOS. I really wanted to like it but it just wasn’t a good experience at the time.

Fedora, because it just works and it ships recent software versions.
I also like Fedora Silverblue, and projects like ublue are very interesting in my opinion.
- Could you explain what you find interesting about Silverblue ?
- Fedora is truly awesome project! ❤️

Does SteamOS count? My steam deck is my current “Linux” machine.
- Yes! My coworker does this and I think it's pretty cool.

OpenSUSE, Tumbleweed on workstations (KDE) and Leap on my server.

Linux Mint with Mate DE.

I fall firmly in the Ubuntu/derivative camp for the most part. My laptop is on Pop, some of my virtual servers are on Ubuntu. Only exception is UnRAID, which is technically Slackware.

I used to use Void as my main distro, but then the developer drama made me shy away from it (keep in mind, this was like forever ago and I haven’t looked at Void at all since). After that I floated around trying everything, from Gentoo to the BSDs (I know, not Linux). Nowadays I use OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I got tired of doing everything manually and OpenSUSE just makes everything so much easier to use, IMO.
- I got tired of doing everything manually
  Perhaps check out NixOS

Debian on my gaming desktop and Ubuntu on the family laptop.

I'm currently using a mix of Arch and Fedora, but I've been starting to look in to NixOS.

Fedora, I'm not a tech person by Linux user standards and I just need an OS that works

Mostly NixOS unstable. I have one machine still on Arch, but i plan to switch that to NixOS too.

Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD, Arch. :) I need to learn NixOs or something that is immutable / reproducible at some point.

I use Debian for my docker servers. I try to use it on the desktop. Was using pop-os, games kept crashing, replace with arch? Archinstall wouldn’t work. Back to windows I guess. Maybe I should try Debian on the desktop since it’s the only one I ever get working properly.

NixOS. Declarative reproducible immutable systems are the future.

xubuntu. when this install gets too messy i'm probably going to try the minimal edition and install my old openbox or awesome wm configs.

Now I am using fedora, before that I used debian stable.

Right now i am using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. But i am experimenting with NixOS as well. Bdw first comment on lemmy!

Fedora, for the “It Just Works”™ experience of an enterprise-supported distro.

I used to use Arch but recently switched to Fedora. I need stability now.

Debian, for ultimate stability, Fedora for every day, and Arch for my project box.

I use primarily Fedora for desktop/dual boot and minimal Rocky for server. I mess with Arch and Manjaro when I'm feeling adventurous.

I distro hop a lot. After using Majaro (gnome) for a long time I switched to Pop_OS for a long time. I switched back to Manjaro (Gnome) again, but after a week of use I've just downloaded Ubuntu.
I'm getting basic display issues that I've never got in another distro (including tails!) and it's generally annoying me. I'd rather use a distro that doesn't require troubleshooting on Day 1

I use opensuse with kde and I love it. Have been using it for 2 years now.
For server use at home I use Ubuntu Server and Alma Linux (mostly)
At work it is all RedHat.

Been using nobara with kde for the last 2-3 months

Alpine is honestly my go to

Slackware

I've felt in love woth Debian the moment I used it for the first time

Using Garuda (basically just Arch with some bloat) because I'm 1) too lazy to install Arch myself and 2) on an Nvidia card and Wayland WMs still seem buggy for me. Once (if ever) Wayland is stable on Nvidia I'll probably look for an alternative

Fedora on the desktop. I got my start on Red Hat Linux so I've stuck with it since.
For servers I use Debian. Lightweight, widely used, and gets the job done.

openSUSE Tumbleweed, it just works for me.

I'm currently running Mint on my Computer and Ubuntu on servers.

Linux Mint for desktops/laptops (Cinnamon if the hardware can handle it, MATE if it's a bit long in the tooth), and Debian for servers.
I've used several distros (yes, even Arch btw) through the years but I just keep finding myself coming back to the Debian-based ones. I guess I just feel most at-home with the way it has things set up, or something.

Mint with Cinnamon is my daily driver on my desktop and laptop for almost 3 years now. I ran a company for a while using Linux and managed to find everything I needed for software to run administration. It was great. I still have a windows tablet for troubleshooting and equipment specific requests, but I always feel weird logging into it.

TuxedoOS, Pop!_OS, and Ubuntu (work forces me to use it 😬)

Arch for my personal life as it is minimal but robust once you get over the fear of messing things up and level up your skills, and Debian at work since it supports most things and is a stable non rolling release. And KDE Plasma as DE on both.

I use Manjaro, but I run it like vanilla Arch (for example pacman/yay and not pamac). I find this to be a sweet spot for me - rolling releases are so incredibly nice, and Manjaro being slightly slower than Arch is good from a stability standpoint in my experience.
I use ZFS all over the place, including the root storage pool on my home server, which has overall been a great experience with systemd-boot.

Manjaro. I am a guy of habits, so I never really distro-hopped, I once tried to install Arch and failed to configure everything so I tried endeavour and failed too (which would mean I am not a tech guy either ;). Ultimately, I'd say that the distribution does not matters much once you are used to it, you can always get what you want from any of them. The only thing I really like in comparison with others is pacman :)

Manjaro for the best 🥰
- Manjaro + SteamOS. Wanted to refresh myself on gaming with Linux/Proton prior to the Deck launch and Manjaro seemed the most similar. Helped that my Win11 install decided to crash explorer.exe every 5 seconds around the same time.

Been using PopOS for my living room AMD GPU pc, and it’s been the most seamless steam machine experience I’ve had so far. Tried multiple distros on my Nvidia one, and I just had no luck, I’ll move my Nvidia pc into Linux soon for another attempt.