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Windows (desktop)
Linux, debian (laptop)
Mac (work)
Windows on both home and work computers.
I would be on Cachy/Bazzite on my home PC if not for my TFT addiction.
I use Windows at my desk and macOS any other time, currently prefer macOS as it doesn’t annoy me by updating itself 🤣
Linux Mint Debian Edition on desktop
Manjaro on Laptop
And Slackware on my kid's PC's
CachyOS on desktop
MacOS on laptop
Windows at work
Debian on all VPS
Linux Mint Debian Edition on my desktop.
Nearly a 10 year old Dell Inspiron and it runs great.
Boot time is less than a minute.
Using linux but your username is "macguy"
Windows 10 on the desktop, Debian 13 for the VPS
can be mac n cheese
Still on Windows for the daily driver tbh, just because compatibility is king, but Fedora’s been getting really hard to ignore lately with how smooth it’s gotten
Windows, but I want to try macOS
Lesbian 13 (Fumo)
Arch on all desktops.
Fedora on laptops.
QubesOS since ages.
if anyone ask about os, of course the answer its arch
in reality:
1 laptop win 11 for work from office
1 laptop fedora and arch for work from home
1 desktop win 11 for game
1 vm kali for work on security thingy
1 vm xubuntu for working remotely using my phone
xxx vm/vps/server mix between debian, alma, rocky, suse and ubuntu.
i haven't touch mac (too expensive 😁) and bsd
Windows (desktop) when playing game, MacOS (laptop) for other task and when I need to go outside. I just wish my gacha game work on linux or mac then I can remove the Windows trash
Work: W11
Home: Fedora
VPS: Alma Linux
99% Arch + Gnome, currently on CachyOS, I'll probably go back to Arch
Arch
Do you like Arch?
Debian 13, XFCE. Tried and true.
Tried to do GhostBSD as a desktop but sadly the package managers all seem to be incredibly slow and I sort of lost interest. Guess I never thought much about it before, was always used to Debian and related distros like Ubuntu having global mirrors. Then, try GhostBSD in a local VM and I can't stand waiting 20 minutes to install htop or something. (Been several months, I forget the exact details but after a 72hr test period gave up). May try some other variants in the future. Nothing I do really requires anything specific to Debian/Linux and everything I use is natively available or ported to *BSD, I believe.
2 work laptops, 2 personal laptops, 1 personal desktop all Windows 11.
Work VMs are all some flavor of Windows Server. All personal VPS/dedis are Debian 13.
I haven't tried to run a desktop on Linux in quite some time. Maybe it's time to try again.
Endeavouros KDE on my desktop & laptop, with a backup windows 11 install for whatever steam games won't run on linux.
Windows for the workstations, Debian/Armbian for the servers
Servers : suse
PC : Windows 10 LTSC
I'm curious—is the performance boost from CachyOS's unique v3/v4 instruction set optimized packages significant?🤔
If it were possible, I would very much like to switch back to Windows 10 LTSC; however, on newer hardware platforms—particularly those featuring Intel's hybrid "big-little" core architecture—there are some issues regarding driver compatibility.
Although I spent several months trying out Windows 11 IoT LTSC 2024, I found that whenever I left the system sitting idle in standby mode, the fans would suddenly start spinning furiously—it was absolutely driving me crazy.
Debloated Windows 11 on my laptop,
Outdated Mac at the office, version 10.6.8 due to software for work compatibility
I suspect LTO and PGO is what gives it most of its performance gains, not v3/v4.
Lot of years passed, it was a long way - but kubuntu and kde can successfully replace ms windows nowadays .
It appears that kernel scheduling is more important than "instruction-set-optimized packages."
I found some users are using to implement CachyOS kernel scheduling on Arch and its derivatives.