Kerala Linux Community

Archlinux

Why you choose it?

It and its derivatives are very popular (better and broader software support), the wiki is rich and detailed, the AUR is useful for managing niche software.

Running for how long?

Got a new PC last year, so technically only a year. My work computer had an arch install running for 5 years without issues until I was forced to switch.

Which DE?

KDE. Popular, just works for most stuff, did 0 customization.

Dual booting it with windows or pure linux?

Dual-booting W11. Completely disabled updates. W11 partitions are on the right side so that I can easily absorb the space into my linux install if I decide to nuke it at some point. The only things it has installed on it is Firefox, Discord, and League of Legends.

Mint w/cinnamon most of the time.

Depending on how you determine it, since win10 launched.

Pure Linux where feasible, though I have some niche shit I dual bopt for on my laptop, and I have a media pc that still runs win7 because I'm fucking savage like that.

Mint! It's easy and I'm about as techy as a coloring book. Match made in heaven.

Arch Linux

• I chose it because I got sick of Ubuntu lagging behind in package updates, and because the pacman package manager just made so much sense to me. It was so simplistic and creating your own packages was just writing some basic bash. I also wanted a system that was truly mine, where I could pick exactly what I wanted to have installed and nothing more. (This aspect has levels to it, of course, but for me it's enough control.)
• I've been using it for about 11–12 years now.
• I was using i3 for the longest time. Then I briefly tried sway, Hyprland, and many various other, more obscure window managers, until finally landing on Niri, and Noctalia Shell. I had a mind to write something like Noctalia myself, but turns out people already did.
• Not dual booting since about 2020 or so. Gaming has really come a long way in recent years.

I really should put my Windows M.2 in and copy over the data so I can use the drive for something useful.

A bunch.

Debian for servers.

Arch for my main PC

Bazzite for my console-like living room PC

KDE Neon for Plasma Bigscreen - testing it on a mini PC

• Fedora.

I had tried a few times to switch to other, Debian-flavour, distros in the past, from Windows, but always seemed to run into annoying issues that would send me back. Gaming was a consideration at the time, too. Windows eventually went too far into surveillance-OS for me to tolerate anymore and so I tried Nobara, which has been great and is actually still on the main PC because I'm too lazy to change it to Fedora. I also feel like having RHEL downstream is a good thing; might as well learn the distro where the most enterprise work is. My other computers all run Fedora now.

• 3 years

• KDE Plasma, when I need a DE. Love it.

• Linux. Only my wife uses Windows and that was for a game she doesn't play anymore... I wonder if I can get her to switch back again.

Endeavour. Was on Manjaro and it was mostly great. Switched to that from Ubuntu about a decade ago because of poor GPU driver support. Using XFCE. Love the rolling release and the AUR. Got no reason to dual boot. Why would I want a worst OS eating disk space?

• Arch
• 8+ years (edit time. Apparently it flew)
• KDE
• No windows. Pure penguin

Bazzite vor Garuda. I use bazzite on my and my kid's gaming PCs, and my wife's older PC for everyday use has garuda with xfce.

Bazzite is very low maintaince, and just works for gaming. I also have a local LLM agent on it, which works well of you know how to use containers, etc.

Garuda is more flexible and easier on the hardware, so it's great for running just about anything you need, and easier for a non-Linux person to update, etc.

Debian.

Debian for server. Cachyos on desktop and laptop. Laptop was the test, using it on desktop with steam big picture mode hooked up to the TV for gaming.

I went Mint on the desktop when windows 10 reached EoL. Eventually switching to cachyos when I moved my servers to a mini Debian PC. I do have windows on a dual boot for now, but only for VR, have a rift-s, or to test a game to see if it runs better. Also need it to update Xbox controller. Forza horizon ran like shit in Linux when it launched. But I'd say I'm probably 98% all Linux now.

Ubuntu on my servers for years and KDE neon daily driver for the past 8 months. I installed neon to better be able to do remote support for a friend that was running it and have just left it as it’s quite nice Plasma is very friendly and pretty. Windows can f**k off.

nixos

one config to rule all my devices. basically i have to change the config on one device, sync it to the others, and zhey will all end up with the same packages and configs

2.5 years

niri wm

no