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Bazzite (with KDE). My desktop is mostly for discord and gaming - I don't have the kind of job that can be done from home. So when I get to use it I want it to just work, and look good.
I've used a bunch of distros and I've sort of become an atomic evangelist. Which put like that sounds like a great band name.
Mint pleb on desktop because it's stable and just works, bazzite on steam deck for installing my own games.
Xubuntu. Convenience of ubuntu, less cluttered UI.
Mint, because I have a thing about maintaining a constant user experience, and it's the closest distro to Windows.
The other hard drive has Windows, because Fusion360 doesn't work on Linux. Hey Autodesk, can you hear me? Make it happen please
Gentoo because I like it.
And portage.
Mint for my desktop system. It just does exactly what I want it to, has good compatibility with software and Cinnamon is my DE of choice.
NixOS for my server, because being able to use one config repo and format for everything is so nice.
I've been using Bazzite for a few months now (switched from EndeavourOS, which was great) and it's been amazing. I'm sold on atomic/immutable. I have never had a PC this stable, including every Windows PC I've had.
And it's perfect for gaming. There are weird little tweaks and settings that I had to do on EOS to get my GPU working correctly, etc., and they all just work out of the box in Bazzite (I did get the iso image made specifically for my laptop, which definitely helps). It's super impressive actually.
Gentoo for anything my I use a mouse with, Arch for everything else. I like Gentoo for the customization. For things where I want to run a service, Arch is my go to as it keeps working without drama. Anything complicated, Gentoo is better.
A few for different use cases. NixOS on my wife's 14 year old laptop because it proved to handle the hardware the best, and she struggles with change so if that system dies the NixOS configuration can be redeployed identical to how she had it with no additional effort.
Debian on my old IOmega NAS.
OpenSUSE on my personal PC and Work computer, since it supports my proprietary CAD software, and nVidia releases a driver specifically for SUSE/OpenSUSE use.
Been using Mint with the Cinnamon desktop environment for a few years now. Does everything I need it to.
Fedora 41 KDE at home on my daily driver laptop and desktop.
Antix on my dell mini netbook.
Multi machine VMs I manage at work run on red hat enterprise with no DE or WM.
My web app servers at work run Ubuntu server 24 LTS with no DE or WM.
My home lab runs on fedora 41 server, no DE or WM.