What Linux distro do you use? What do you use it for? What is your experience with it? Why did you switch to Linux?
Tbh lemmy is already oversaturated with linux content. I use Zorin OS, and before that I was using Mint for a very long time, then tried out Pop OS!. It's my computer, so I use it whatever I want for. Zorin looks very good, is very stable (because kernel and software are not the bleeding edge). I switched to Linux because I was unable to install Windows on my brand new PC (some kind of error, I don't remember anymore).
Kubuntu on my main while I set up my Proxmox VE home lab. Plasma is superbly customisable, but there's something about Gnome that's so pleasing to the eyes that makes me look up ways to make Gnome work for me.
I have decided that xRDP is how I want to access my VMs (the only protocol that I'm able to reliably get multi display to work without additional configurations), so that's my bare minimum requirement for now. The test Debian VM I had straight up would not install the xRDP Easy Install script.
Switched to Linux (on my spare laptop) because that's what the programming tutorial I was following at that time recommended (though I've had experience with Ubuntu on and off before this). Such a delightful experience setting up programming stuff on Linux compared to Windows (I know WSL exists, but I like to keep my environments separate). Now my Linux spare laptop is my main PC, while I've barely turned on my "main" Windows laptop lately. Helps that my entertainment is mainly YouTube and not much gaming, though I played a few steam games on it before with a few quirks.
I went with kubuntu. Mostly used for internet surfing and media viewing. Has been considering to switch to open suse. Doesn't want to pay nor subscribe to anything for such usage.
What Linux distro do you use? What do you use it for?
Arch Linux, it's the most maintainable way to run the last versions of the software on my machine, which is useful to me as a developer.
What is your experience with it?
Breakage is rare. When it does happen, though, I can easily unbreak it by downgrading whichever single package lead to the breakage and its dependencies, and adding them to a
IgnorePkgdirective in my/etc/pacman.conf.Occasionally, I need to watch out for configuration files installed as
.pacnewand upgrade my existing configuration to the new version (usually, it's only comments that have changed between the current conf version and the.pacnewone, so nothing to do).Besides that, it works pretty much flawlessly. Arch Linux doesn't patronize you with a "Don't worry about that, we'll handle it for you" attitude like Ubuntu, Fedora, or macOS. And there is no lower-effort way than Arch Linux to run the latest version of all software you have installed.
Why did you switch to Linux?
As a developer, I needed a *nix environment, but my workplace only gave me Windows. Cygwin was a pain to configure, required converting between Windows paths and Cygwin paths every step of the way in order to interoperate with my Windows environment (this was before WSL), and Windows-style line endings made my terminal look weird with some frequency.
I didn't start with Arch right away, I started with Antergos (a now discontinued Arch installer), which set things up initially and let me work with it from there. Importantly, it didn't involve a completely separate package manager like Manjaro. If you want to use Arch, don't start with Manjaro, because if you do, you will probably stay on Manjaro. A list of Arch-based distros is here, if you want to take this approach (Warning: Some people use an Arch installer, which is initially easy, accidentally break everything on an upgrade, and are unable to get it working again, so only do this if you're committed to fixing your own problems).
