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.

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.)

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.

arch

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

I was a distro hopper once, then I saw the light of NixOS…

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.

I use Debian with a patched version of motif window manager. The 90s never ended:

I use Arch Linux with KDE Plasma myself

Using Arch everywhere (home, work, laptop). It’s boring, but it just works.

Linux Mint with Mate DE.

Arch Linux everywhere. I’m curious about NixOS but I don’t have the time to tinker anymore.

Arch on everything, including servers. It’s just so easy to install everything via the AUR & configure everything easily. Plus the wiki is amazing. Although it is a pain to setup sometimes

NixOS. Declarative config with opt-in state is awesome.

Linux Mint. Nothing beats your computer just working when you have shit to get done.