unix like operating system lovers

I'm a grumpy old man when it comes to OSes. I started on Gentoo, used Arch for a while, a few years of Ubuntu, then a bunch of different Ubuntu-based distros, Fedora and all the Fedora spins, even ran the Hannah Montana OS as a meme for a week.

Eventually, got bored of the latest shiny things and fixing the best thing ever, and am using Kubuntu with Wayland. It just works, got no complaints.

Run Arch on my main PC. Proxmox on my home server with Ubuntu server as VM and random containers.

My work machine is macOS as the company won't let us use Linux. My home machine is Arch Linux (obligatory "BTW") which I migrated to after Ubuntu dropped Unity and started forcing Snaps on everyone.

However, a nice shameless plug for my Terminal file manager: DF-SHOW which is designed to work on all Unix like systems.

I use whatever is the best fit for the work I need to do. I mainly use macOS, and try to get away with using VM's with macOS as my host system whenever possible.

I used to be on the Arch bandwagon but after migrating to a MacBook for my daily driver computer it's mostly just Debian-based distros when the need arises, Kali for work and headless Debian for homelab stuff. I rarely boot my Windows gaming PC anymore. I do have some Windows VM's for testing exploits and payloads. And emulated Windows 95-98 machines for that OG Oregon Trail fix.

I'm currently using Nobara a Fedora fork and upgraded today to version 38 it was a bit of a stretch. I had to delete many things in my /etc/ to get GNOME 44 working. Bluetooth and the panel on the top right is a bit buggy but it works.

On my laptop I use arch with hyprland

I'll probably have to go with FreeBSD for their minimal base and incredibly clean and well-documented code and utilities.

I use NixOS on my pc, laptop, and server, although I dual-boot windows on my pc to play some games.

My phone is android, I have a pinephone but I can't get discord and other things to work well on it so it can't be my daily driver right now. (I know Matrix chat is better than discord, I even host my own instance, but everyone in my school uses discord so there's no way to switch).

I want to like macOS but Apple, IMO, is doing scummier and scummier things with it. For instance, I haven't signed in to iCloud. Once a day it seems, I'll get a little notice telling me that not all functionality will work until I've signed in. Ok.. So I click the little 'X' on the notification. It opens the settings to the iCloud setup screen. That's not what 'X' is supposed to do!

Arch. I got it working 3 years ago, it's still working, stable. On my main laptop, though, I'm running windows, and planning to install Fedora when I get the chance.

Gentoo when I want to do Linux at an enthusiast level and out of technical interest, and PopOS when I just want everything to work.

I use windows because that's where I can play overwatch and fortnite. That's literally the only reason. And photoshop, but krita is almost just as good. If I didn't play games not available on Linux I'd probably use Ubuntu instead. Why? Easy to install, very customizable, better for programming, scriptable.

Linux Mint has always been my recommended for beginners to Linux and if I just want something stable and quick to set up.

Arch (usually EndeavourOS) when I want to do fun stuff.