What distro are you running?

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  1. Kubuntu 19.04 on gaming desktop, KDE Neon testing edtion on my laptop, and Ubuntu 19.10 with Unity on another laptop.
  2. Been using Ubuntu distros since 2012.
  3. I see no reason to leave, so yeah :smiley:. Closest I got to switching was when Ubuntu dropped Unity as their main desktop environment & switched to Plasma.
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I’m running Fedora 30, been on it since June 2019, I’m trying others on my other computer but so far I like Fedora, next one to try is popOs

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  1. Anarchy 1.0.5 & ArcoLinuxD + KDE
  2. Actually, started with Arch recently. Just thought that I’ve found everything I want in Ubuntu but than tried Arch… :slight_smile: Simply, Arch can give me minimalism I’ve been striving since I know for myself.
    ArcoLinuxD is sparing me boring hardcore Arch installation and let’s me in just when it’s time to install WM & DE. I really appreciate that!
    On the other hand, Anarchy is full of the potential with easy and beautful installer but also with a bag full of bugs for the time being. But crew there is looking enthusiastic enough so they have my sympathy.
  3. For sure but on some way I miss Ubuntu. Budgie edition especially - really positive thoughts there. Solus looks attractive too. Tried new Zorin but didn’t stick with that - too simple for my taste but I really like idea. Something like rich Elementary I would say. :slight_smile:

P.S. really starting to like this community!

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1 . Ubuntu MATE.
2. A year and a half.
3. Whenever I try something else, I end up going back to it so nowadays whenever I feel the urge of distro hopping, I launch a VM and try another distro to figure out it is not for me.

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Are there any Linux programs you use with recording or mixing music?

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What: Pop! OS
When: Since I got a System76 Oryx Pro laptop just over a year ago.
Staying? Yes. For now, at least.

I’d planned to wipe Pop! when I got the laptop and use Antergos[RIP], but wound up enjoying it so much that I kept it. In fact, I had Antergos on a box I was using as a home NextCloud server that I hadn’t updated in about six months and when I updated it last week, it messed up the NextCloud and Apache installations and became dreadfully slow and glitchy in general. I’ve been having such a good time with Pop! that I went ahead and wiped the server and put Pop! on it. Then installed a snap of NC and was up and running fast, no hassle.

I don’t think the devs of Pop! really intended for it to be used as a server, but I just changed the default target for systemd to multi-user.target to run it headless, and it works just fine.

On Raspberry Pi, I use Raspbian, but only because I haven’t really tried putting anything else on it yet. Raspbian itself isn’t bad, I suppose, but the desktop setup is pretty putrid, IMO.

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What: Manjaro with KDE desktop, I have just updated my old old asus with MXLinux, my kids run Linux Mint (Cinnamon and Mate) on their old laptops (Asus and Toshiba Satellite) , which are my hand-me-downs.
When: For the last 6 months
Staying? Yes. I am tempted to try an Arch install next.

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I’m no music producer but the Audio editor I use for mixing podcasts is Audacity and it’s a powerful bit of kit.

Check out this YouTube channel as he uses all Linux for his music production

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@lqlarry I’ve dabbled a bit with Bitwig (not FOSS, but available on Linux) and I’ve found it to be incredibly flexible and powerful. I’m trying to move away from Logic Pro X as it’s the ONLY thing keeping me on a Mac, and only occasionally.

I’m doing this together with my friend Jerry Morrisson, who’s also migrating away from Logic Pro. it’s a slow process, but an exciting one.

I have to give a nod to Audacity as well, though. It is RIDICULOUS stable and easy to use, and while it’s not flashy it has a lot of power under the hood. It’s all I need to produce my podcast from start to finish.

And yes, Unfa is amazing. watch ALL his videos!

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1: Arch - Plasma DE
2: Started on Antergos 2016, switch to Manjaro when Antergos news came, then decided to go full Arch recently when I felt comfortable with what I wanted to use.
3: Plan to stick with it; maybe side-load Fedora being my buddy Glorious Egg Roll is working with RH/IBM to make it stronger for Gaming.

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1. What? Mageia on personal laptop. Debian on anything else.
2. How long? Mageia for 2 years. Debian since 2011.
3. Sticking with it? With Debian definitely. On my personal laptop I might switch every 2 years to something that gets the job done at the moment. There are too much great distributions out there. :slight_smile:

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Same for me. Something about Kubuntu makes me fall in love with it.

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at home:
Kubuntu, Manjaro with KDE, and sometimes PopOS
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at work:
Debian with KDE

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Stock Ubuntu since 8.04. Personal laptop on the interim releases, servers latest LTS, 15-20 friends and family usually on the latest LTS desktop.

My laptop has been through release-upgrades every 6 months since 2008 with the disk being cloned through 3-4 upgrades and is in the latest of about 5 newer laptops.

Given this level of stickiness to my workflow I’ll probably be here for the duration.

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The double negative is a positive for you. Enjoy your participation (comments) on BDLL.

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I use MX 18.3 as my “serious” distro but tend to spend more time on ArcoLinux-Plasma. You could call me an ArcoLinux fanboy.
Been using above for over a year after doing a lot of distro hopping. But enjoy the BDLL Distro Challenges on an old Lenovo laptop.
I don’t plan to change my present “workflow”.

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Just downloaded Manjaro Xfce setting up and enjoying I’ll see how this goes, this is on a second desktop still have Fedora. PopOs was not going well so gave up.

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Distro(s)

  1. My main distro, installed as the default boot option (if you don’t select one of the other options) is MX Linux (currently all MX-19 beta 2.1

  2. My backup is Debian updated from Debian 10 Buster to the Bullseye Testing branch (on 4 of my laptops)

  3. For an Arch base my favourite is ArcoLinux - on 4 laptops, 2 others also have EndeavourOS which shows great promise.

  4. varies, SparkyLinuc 6 semi-rolling (based on Debian Testing), of EndeavourOS, or (on 1 machine) Manjaro

Mostly I use the MX Linux installs but regularly use the others for a change.

All have Xfce (I think they are all Xfce 4.14 now) as th DE, I can muddle through Gnome, KDE Plasma, MATE and even LXQt is I must but I prefer Xfce, so sue me.

oh, I do have one machine, with just a 128GB SSD with Peppermint 9 because it has a Minetest World I tinker with and it only seems to work with the version of Minetest that came with Pepp 9

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I’m on ArcoBLinux-AwesomeWM and loving it!

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  1. Ubuntu server, centos, debian, pops, majaro.
  2. I have been running linux on the desktop on and off since 2000. Running multiple linux server non stop since 2000.
  3. Yes. More so since gaming support is getting better.