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kde connect wasn't working on endeavouros with sway and i wanted something easy and debian based

I'm about ready to hop back in and daily drive Linux again after the nightmare that was attempting debian w/KDE plasma and Wayland. I have a Nvidia GPU on my laptop and for some reason I did not have luck at all after moderate success daily driving opensuse tumbleweed and kubuntu for a while.

I'm admittedly looking to onboard myself to the gnome workflow and leave the comfort of the windows style desktop environment experience. Gnome seems a bit more polished and stable than KDE plasma but it's interface isn't intuitive to me yet.

Ideally I'll be using Debian or Arch when the time comes for me to dive back into desktop Linux.

Another one for the endevour os team. Not looking to distro hop anytime soon.

Manjaro KDE

Mint for my daily driver, PopOS for my gaming machine. Happy with both.

@blotz trying out kubantu for now just swapped from gnome manjaro.

I daily Windows 11... though I use Ubuntu for servers and Mint for my linux desktops (older hardware that doesn't W11).

nixos + xmonad + xfce-no-desktop here. Its not for noobs perhaps but so stable and confidence inspiring.

Threads like this are exactly what keeps a good few of us from ever getting started. Lol. Good fun to read through though. One day I'll pick a distro and give it a whirl. Till then, thanks for the entertainment.

Nobara on my gaming desktop, Fedora Kinoite on one laptop, Debian 12 on the other.

Mint on my desktop, decided to try out Tumbleweed on a cheap laptop. KDE wasn't for me / wasn't reliable enough, but I'm happy with Gnome. I haven't needed to use Flatpacks though.

Might try MicroOS on the servers, I like the idea of an immutable distro so less can go wrong during updates, and I run all services as containers anyway.

Accidentally wipes out Mint last week, but have been meaning to try out Fedora 39 Plasma. So far, I love it. I have been really busy recently, but it has been a great system so far. My SteamDeck really made me fall in love with Plasma.

I recently switched my laptop to Garuda, it's an Arch based gaming distro. It seems to mostly work right out of the box, but I did have to tweak a few steam games to force them to use my dedicated graphics.

I guess I could go in and force steam itself to use the graphics card via env... But I only have a handful of large games at the moment. It's just as easy to set the requirement per game right now.

Fedora is what keep getting back to every time I get distro hopping fever. Either gnome or KDE It's wonderful!

cachyos

Had been on pop for a while. But lately gnome shell was using a ton of ram and performance was trash, so I moved to fedora with KDE. Been great so far.

The answer's always Debian. I use guix for packages, though it doesn't have as much stuff on it as nix.

I'm rocking two dailys right now. Tumbleweed and Nixos. I jabe tumbleweed on my work laptop as well as one laptop at home. Rock solid go to that I trust for all the things. I started using nix on a number of other machines at home a few months back, and I'm really really enjoying it!!