What are people daily driving these days?

OpenSuse tumbleweed + kde plasma for a peace of mind 👍
- There are dozens of us! Dozens!
  
  I am amongst you scholars and noblemen.
  
  Indeed there are my dude!

For laptops, I've been using EndeavourOS lately. All of the Arch goodness, but with an easy installer that handles the DE too. It's as close to "just works" as you can get while still having pacman + AUR at the end.
I still love raw Arch, but I leave that for server installs.
- Same, EOS is awesome and cured my distro-hopping.
- archinstall let's you choose a DE too
- Not saying anything bad about EndeavourOS, because it's great, but:
  All of the Arch goodness, but with an easy installer that handles the DE too.
  Arch has a guided TUI installer included in it's ISO that does this too.
  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Archinstall
  
  It does, but it's done me wrong a few times so I never recommend it. For all I know it's fine these days, but old grudges are hard do shake.

- Username tells me this is a trap

OpenSUSE TW for me. Used to be Arch but it's just too much faff for me.
- Same, I've used Linux since the late nineties and know my way around but I have other things to do. TW with Plasma/Wayland is great.

NixOS user here! Fedora is a very good contender as well
- +1 on NixOS. On all devices except Android phones since 2014 for me.
- NixOS too. I really like having a "fresh" install every time I restart.

Arch for many, many years. Absolutely zero reasons to switch. I used to distro hop alot back in the day but I don’t bother with that anymore. I need a system that works and Arch gives me exactly that.
- Why distro hop from arch if you can make any distro out of it anyway lol I use arch btw

Fedora Silverblue. But when switching I had to wrap my head around the differences in the workflow of doing things. Once youre past that it's rock solid and had no issues so far.

Opensuse Tumbleweed. A rock solid rolling release.
- I'm surprised by how many people are rocking opensuse in this thread. What made you go with opensuse?
  
  I would say the benefit of OpenSUSE is that everything is preconfigured to work right out of the box, including btrfs snapshotting with snapper. Once you boot it's time to download apps, and go. Very windows like for those who just want the system to work. Updates are one click.
- The only downside is that they don't support zfs properly, and the package selection is more limited. The community repos aren't always maintained.
- Until the kernel updates to something unsupported and you find out that they don't keep old kernels in the rolling release. An amazing experience.
  
  Never hat issues on my 10+ year old system. I did how ever with rocky linux 9.4. It is unsupported on my old dell r610s

A Chevy volt. Turns out gm figured out that a PHEV is a great idea 12 years ago
- What kinda rpms you getting on that
  
  It probably uses apks.
  
  Not sure, just realized this is a computer post lol
  If you want mpg it's anywhere from 75 to 130mpg per tank of gas.

Debian with KDE works great for my needs.

Fedora Workstation. Couldn't be happier.
- Same, it's a "it just works" distro.

I've been using EndeavourOS with KDE for a bit under 2 years now (I think) on both my desktop and laptop. It is Arch based and easy to install. And for my home servers I run Proxmox
- Out-of-the-box, Proxmox runs on Debian. That and PiHole are the two Debian instances I run.

I use Arch BTW....
Joking aside I use Arch on my desktop, Raspbian on RPi1, Debian on homeserver and VMs.
- I have 2 PCs running Arch currently. My SBC is running Ubuntu but that is just a print service for my 3d printer. I have a few Ubuntu & Fedora vns for testing and self study
- Gentoo on desktop, gentoo on Rock64, gentoo on Allwinner A10 device, gentoo on Powerbook G4(don't ask why I have it). Ah, and OpenWRT on router.

Popos on the Framework laptop. It’s pretty good so far.
- Never omit the space

PopOS on gaming PC Fedora Silverblue on daily PC Ubuntu Server LTS for small servers Ubuntu Desktop LTS for digital signage
- What's fedora like to use? I dont see it mentioned as much as Debian or Arch.
  
  I've been running Fedora Silverblue on nearly all of my PCs for about a year now and overall it's been great.
  Automatic and unobtrusive updates for the core OS and user apps (everything happens in the background without interaction; flatpak updates are applied immediately, and OS updates are applied at next boot)
  I can choose to apply many core updates immediately, but rarely do
  Atomic OS updates means that everything must be installed successfully or none of the OS updates are applied, which prevents a partially updated system
  Being an image-based distro, I can and do easily rebase to Fedora's test/beta/remix releases, and just as easily rollback, or run both stable and beta releases side by side for testing purposes
  Being image-based means there's no chance of orphaned packages or library files being left behind after an update, resulting in a cleaner system over time
  In the event that anything does go sideways after a system update (hasn't happened yet), I can easily rollback to the previous version at boot
  Some elements not unique to Silverblue but part of its common workflow:
  Distrobox/toolbox allow you to run any other distro as a container, and then use that distro's apps as if they were native to your host system; this includes systemd services, locally installed RPMs, debs, etc.; I use distrobox to keep most of my dev workflow within my preferred Archlinux environment
  Flatpaks are the FOSS community's answer to Ubuntu's Snaps, providing universal 1-click installation of sandboxed user apps (mostly GUI based); Firefox, Steam, VLC, and thousands of other apps are available to users, all without the need for root access
  My only complaints about Silverblue are more to do with how Flatpaks work right now, such as:
  Drag & drop doesn't work between apps, at least not for the apps I've attempted to use; for example, dragging a pic into a chat window for sharing; instead, I have to browse to and select the image from within the chat app
  Firefox won't open a link clicked within Thunderbird unless the browser is already open, otherwise it just opens a blank tab
  Many flatpak apps are maintained by unofficial volunteers, and this isn't always clear on Flathub; I view this as a security risk and would prefer to see a flag or warning of some kind when a flatpak is not maintained by the official upstream developer
  That said, I'm confident that these issues will be addressed over time. The platform has already come a long way these past couple of years and now that the KDE and GNOME teams are collaborating for it, things will only get better.
  Like I said though, overall Silverblue has been a really great user experience, and as a nearly 20-year Linux veteran it has really changed the way I view computing.

I like Debian with GNOME

Nixos for me! But my dark secret is that I also have an Ubuntu partition those things that I can't get working.
- Check out distrobox. It's a way to have a Ubuntu (or any other Linux distro) container and allows you to install Ubuntu packages, even desktop applications.
  It works great for when you need to install a random .deb file or follow a very Ubuntu specific step by step procedure. I use it exactly for this kind of stuff.
  No rebooting needed, integrates fully with the host system, no virtual machine either.

Until a couple of weeks ago I used Fedora Silverblue.
Then, after mostly using GNOME Shell for about a decade, I (reluctantly) tried KDE Plasma 5.27 on my desktop due to its support for variable refresh rate and since then I have fallen in love with KDE Plasma for the first time (retrospectively I couldn't stand it from version 4 until around 5.20).
Now I am using Fedora 39 Kinoite on two of my three devices and Fedora 39 KDE on a 2-in-1 laptop that requires custom DKMS modules (not possible on atomic Fedora spins) for the speakers.
Personally I try to use containers (Flatpaks on the desktop and OCI images on my homeserver) whenever possible. I love that I can easily restrict or expand permissions (e. g. I have a global nosocket=x11 override) and that my documentation is valid with most distributions, since Flatpak always behaves the same.
I like using Fedora, since it isn't a rolling release, but its software is still up-to-date and it has always (first version I used is Fedora 15) given me a clean, stable and relatively bug-free experience.
In my opinion Ubuntu actually has the perfect release cycle, but Canonical lost me with their flawed-by-design snap packages and their new installers with incredibly limited manual partitioning options (encryption without LVM, etc.).

- I assume you mean Debian for ideology, not Sid, unless you have strong feelings about breaking toys
  but is that because of the community nature of Debian, or because default it's free software only? Guessing the former, since there are other options for the latter
  
  Some people also like super stable

i'm on manjaro kde, will switch soon to nixos if i understand how it all works :)
otherwise arch

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. It's been great having a rolling release distro that I don't have to worry about breaking with updates

Hannah Montana Linux, the one and only original!
- Rebecca Black here, though now that Wayland is everywhere, should switch

Manjaro kde on 3 computers in the ham shack, manjaro KDE on the media center, and guess what's on the two lap tops..you got it...manjaro KDE. Most have windows 10 dual boot on a separate drive. I haven't spent the time to figure out radio control and antenna switching on Linux so windows is still needed for radio contesting.
I have tried many and keep going back to manjaro, everything just works. The Arch wiki is awesome, and the aur has multiviewer to F1, ready to go.
- Give EndeavourOS a go one of these days and compare it head-to-head with Manjaro. I bet you never look back.
  
  Already tried it a few times. Back to manjaro.

Oh god so many notifications. My inbox is flooded. I only expected like 20 replies Lol
- Not only that, you asked for their opinions.

Arch with Wayland and Pipewire. Running SwayWM and have never been happier with my setup.

After using NixOS, I don’t think I could go back to a regular distro. At the very least, maybe debian with the nix package manager
- @ultra @blotz is it really that good
  
  As someone who uses it as well:
  Yes it is. Especially if you use Gnome. Because you can set dconf settings right in your Config.
  It takes a while to remember to configure your User Account not in the normal Settings App but instead in the Config, but once you do it's amazing.
  I reinstalled on my Laptop and i was back on my old Desktop with all my Programs, Extensions, Settings etc within 20 Minutes
  When i change a Setting on my Laptop, i use Git to synch the Config to my Desktop and all the changes i made to my Laptop are also on my Desktop.
  Also: no more accidentally breaking your system. I don't have to type random Commands in my Terminal to try and fix something and then try ans revert them. I just add the Config. If it doesn't work, i remove the Config again and it automatically reverts everything back as if nothing ever happened.
  It is trily amazing
  Now if only SELinux or Apparmor finally were supported.

Ubuntu. It's working and I don't have the time to try out other distros.
- Wanted to try Ubuntu after using mainly Manjaro but I have only 4gb flash drive and the iso is like 5-6gb so I can't install it. But so far I'm satisfied with Manjaro Xfce and prefer it to gnu
  
  That’s the universe telling you to put an 8GB flash drive on your holiday wish list.

I’ve been running Fedora for years. I tried out Arch and OpenSUSE a bit this year just to see if I was missing anything, and went right back to Fedora afterward.
Not as fussy as Arch and better package availability than SUSE (for my needs at least). Also dnf is my favorite package manager despite being relatively slow.

Arch + Hyprland on my Notebook, Endeavor OS + Gnome PC (11years old PC), 2x Khadas VIM3L + Kodi (Coreelec), home server Odroid + Armbian.
- <3 Hyprland

EndeavourOS on desktop and laptop side of things.

I’ve never tried NixOS, but it looks really promising.
I usually use Fedora or OpenSUSE, which have good software availability (unfortunately not as good as the AUR). Fedora provides selinux by default, and has profiles for basically everything. SUSE uses AppArmor, but Arch doesn’t provide convenient configuration for either, and only supports x86_64 (which is why I switched away from it).

Gentoo. Been using it for over 3 years now, and I haven't found a reason to leave yet.
- I just use the defaults for everything, haha! Just grub2 for the bootloader, openrc for the init system.
  By "home" do you mean DE/WM? If so, I use dwm for my laptop and sway for my desktop.

Why is everyone saying "daily drive" all of a sudden?
- Where is that a new thing? I've been using Linux since early 2010s and people were using that term back then (and it wasn't a new term then either)

Artix (Basically Arch without Systemd)
- Does artix only boot without systemd or is it completely systemd-less? If it is systemd-less, how do services like docker work with that?
  
  Most services just need the init system to start, stop and monitor them. There's no special integration needed for each of them beyond running a command, monitoring the PID, and killing the PID when it's time to stop.
  If you mean the special integration of docker and podman with systemd, first of all that's only required in rootless mode and not everybody runs rootless (most users probably run root docker). In rootless mode you have to manage each container individually as if it were a standalone service instead of just managing docker. Basically you have to integrate each container into the init system, whatever that is. There are some tools that make it easier to with podman+systemd because they write the systemd units for you but you can do it with any init system. The distro mostly doesn't care because you have to do the work not them.

Nobara these days. It's based on Fedora 38.

Arch on my home server, Zorin on my laptop
- Zorin
  Not sure if I'd trust an OS named like a Bond villain.
  
  Yes. Another product from Zorin Industries.

After years of Manjaro (and I still use it on most of my computers), I'm trying out Nobara KDE to see how it keeps up for gaming. It has a number of optimizations that Glorious Eggroll has compiled and seems pretty fast compared to Manjaro on the same hardware. I imagine I could do all the changes on Manjaro, but I also wanted to see how Fedora runs these days, it's been a long time since I used it on the daily.
So far, so good.

Pop!_OS on my desktop and laptop since 2020.

I've been using OpenSuse Slowroll basically since it released and so far am very happy with it.

NixOS and Debian. Probably just NixOS in the near future.

Install Gentoo
Never needed flatpack for last 5 years
- Why not move to NixOS?

When it comes to distros, I am a boring man with a boring POV: I just want the thing to work with as little fuss as possible. Consequently, I'm on Kubuntu. KDE is rock solid, and Ubuntu is what I'm used to.
If/when my OS ever breaks down hard enough to reinstall, I'll probably install Fedora Workstation.

I'm using Mint, but I've avoided using flatpaks (generally downloading DEB packages directly, or adding ppa sources). It's worked pretty well so far.
I do have a handful of AppImages, but they're a bit easier to work with.
- Why avoid using Flatpaks if you don't mind me asking
  
  Two reasons: they're big, and they're sandboxed.
  I was on a 5Mbit connection until recently, so a lot of flatpaks being 1GB+ was frustrating (especially when their native packages were <100MB). And I was using a 250GB SSD, which filled up rather quickly.
  And it turns out I wasn't a fan of the sandboxing aspect. In theory it should be a good thing, but turned out to be frustrating.

Acura MDX

Endeavouros on Laptop and main PC. Loving it.

Arch Linux with i3wm
Fish, Alacritty, Rofi (dmenu replacement)

If you want the cool new thing, it's Nix
- I tried nix actually. Personally, I think it would make a great server os, but I do not enjoy it as a daily driver. I didn't like the fact that I was forced to install everything through nix and couldn't compile software from source.
  
  Nix is a source code package manager and compiles everything from source, except when there's a binary substitute available.

void linux (glibc) + swayfx + waybar + foot terminal + nushell

Arch + gnome but it doesn't matter at this point

Pretty happy with Debian Testing. Frequent updates but still very stable and rock solid.

Arch on my "desktop PC", Armbian on my rpi 4, Dietpi soon (tm) on my Orange pi zero 3.

Currently driving Fedora 39

Arch + XFCE on my desktop. Have been for a while now, and everytime i try something else, I always come back to it. For my laptop, I've been using Gnome + extensions (Arch as well. That way I don't gotta switch gears and remember two different sets of commands) before i had to take it in for repairs. Was pretty good because of the mousepad gestures IMO.

I've been using OpenSuse Slowroll basically since it was released and have so far been very happy with it.

For my main computers, I've moved them all to Arch from Manjaro & EndeavorOS within the past 4 years. Though been meaning to try OpenSUSE Tumbleweed eventually. Haven't used OpenSUSE in over 10 years.
I have a laptop running Proxmox for my servers, which is debian-based but uses a modified Ubuntu LTS kernel. Great to use to try out other distros in VMs as well.