Manjaro gang here. I just started using it a few weeks ago and it’s been great. I tried Ubuntu as my first distro for like 2 weeks before that but it gave me a lot of issues so I swapped to Manjaro.
Also I’m dual booting with Windows because I want to play online games with my friends that dont support Linux.
My audio broke outside of system sounds and I spent a day trying to fix it before deciding to try another distro. That and it kept giving me errors when I installed software from the software application it has.
Arch arch arch arch arch arch arch forever i love it
If you use Ubuntu you're nothing but a person who sensibly values their time and doesn't need to manually install HP drivers and then mess with the cups web interface to add a dumbass Laserjet printer but also I can control whether my laptop uses the Intel igpu or the Nvidia dgpu manually and that's comfy 😌
Pop!_OS gang. System76 knows how to actually deal with the gripes that regular users have about Linux. And, they aren't pushing snaps, which is cool.
Ubuntu 18 cuz
I'm a libit was the easiest and most recomended by peers and I can run it.manjaro kde here.
i was a (k)ubuntu user for a long time but it didn’t seem to like my hardware at all (i have a nvidia gpu), and it felt i was constantly patching shit up and holding my system together with duct tape. ran into lots of graphical glitches and years-old bugs with no fixes in sight. towards the end my computer could no longer sleep, and entire applications/desktop components became completely obscured with visual noise that could only be removed with a restart.
miraculously, all these issues disappeared when i switched to manjaro, even though my window manager is the same. my experience has been slick as hell, and i love the rolling release. feels great to have an os that just works.
Triple-booting Gentoo, Fedora, and Windows. Daily-driving Gentoo for the meantime. I had been using Fedora for a few years, but since I started working on chapo.chat I needed something which could run Docker, and Fedora made this a difficult because it uses NFTables while Docker wants IPTables. Not knowing how much things would break if I made the switch, I decided to whip up a Gentoo system from scratch that fit my needs. It's been running well for the past few weeks, but I haven't gotten around to setting up the nvidia drivers or anything gaming related yet. That said, the Nouveau driver works so much better for daily non-intensive use than it used to.
Before I set up Gentoo, I was triple-booting FreeBSD, Fedora, and Windows, but I botched my BSD system a while ago and the 200GB solid state partition had been sitting dormant. That FreeBSD system was really sweet when I had it set up though. I invested an obscene amount of time ricing Herbstluftwm with a dope ass conky script and coordinating color themes between various applications. I had fucking XTerm looking slicker than I've ever seen it anywhere else in my life. XTerm! And it was hooked up with the Nvidia drivers and doing full acceleration.
Edit: Here's an old screenshot
Liberal Crime Squad. A perfect game for all the liberals on this site. It was originally made by the creator of Dwarf Fortress.
I've used Fedora for the past 3 years. Before that I distrohopped from Ubuntu to Fedora to Arch to Gentoo, and I settled on Fedora because it is stable and provides a nice GNOME experience.
