Hej lemmings!

Quick question for you all: do you stick with the same distro across your PC, laptop, and server, or do you pick different ones based on the device and what you’re doing?

For me, I’ve been mixing and matching depending on the use case, but I’m starting to think it’d be nice to just have one distro (or at least one family like Fedora or Debian) running everywhere. That way I wouldn’t get confused about default settings or constantly have to look up flags for different package managers.

Right now my setup is:

  • Gaming rig: CachyOS
  • Laptop: AuroraOS
  • NAS: Unraid
  • Various project servers: DietPi, Debian, Alpine etc…

I feel like NixOS might be the only distro that could realistically handle all these use cases, but I’m a bit scared of the learning curve and the maintenance work it’d take to migrate everything over.

Am I the only one who feels like having “one distro to rule them all” would be nice? How do you guys handle your setups? All ears! 😊

  • blxt@lemmy.zip
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    39 minutes ago

    For my Gaming PC I ended up with cashyOS. Justs works and still gives me enough flexibility for customization. Server is Proxmox with mostly Debian LXCs but I started to add in some alpine containers. Probably going to throw alpine on my old laptop as well, just for fun. Ah and then there is my MacBook with macOS, which for now I plan to keep…

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    41 minutes ago

    I used to have Ubuntu everywhere, then changed to Debian for servers. Now that I’m using bazzite for my gaming rig, I really liked the idea and went to fedora silver blue on my work laptop. I’m the near future I want to re do my home lab, bit not sure yet what, unfortunately to many open questions concerning storage left.

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    34 minutes ago

    I use Arch (btw) on my desktops and laptops.

    On my servers I’m halfway through replacing Debian with openSUSE.

    My desktop and servers have different use cases and I interact with them in different ways, so there’s little confusion for me.

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    1 hour ago

    I use Fedora on my desktop, laptop and server. On my mother‘s laptop I have installed Fedora Kinoite.

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    1 hour ago

    I typically use EndeavorOS because I enjoy how well documented and organized the arch wiki is.

    I tried switching to fedora on my laptop recently but actually had some issues with software that was apparently only distributed through the AUR or AppImage (which I could have used, I know).

    When I also had issues setting up my VPN to my home network again, I caved and restored the disk to a backup I took before attempting the switch. The VPN thing almost definitely wasn’t Fedoras fault since I remember running into the same issue on EndeavorOS but after my fix from last time didn’t work I was out of patience.

    My servers runs either on debian or Ubuntu LTS though.

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    51 minutes ago

    I use ArchLinux more or less on all Device where it is possible It runs on my workstations, on my NAS, on my servers

    Reason for that is: I am lazy and this way I don’t have to learn how to administrate different Distributions.

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    1 hour ago

    I do - more or less. Since I am the IT guy for my entire family and don’t feel like doing tech support on 10 different distros.

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    2 hours ago

    I’ve thought about it, but I like having Bazzite for my gaming PC and Debian for my laptop, so I’ll probably keep using multiple distros. For me it’s:

    • Gaming PC: Bazzite (it’s plugged into my TV, like a console, and goes straight to Steam’s big picture mode)
    • Laptop: Debian with KDE Plasma
    • Home Server: Debian (a little single board computer, no desktop environment)
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    2 hours ago

    Work notebook runs Linux Mint

    My private desktop PC runs Cachy OS with Wayland/KDE but Wayland crashes all the time, so my private notebook bot Cachy OS with Gnome. Love it. Now I need to reinstall my desktop to also install Gnome. Dont want the hazzle to install it Next to wayland

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    3 hours ago

    Basically, I do. Kubuntu everywhere. Only exception are the servers that run a UI less version of Ubuntu.

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    3 hours ago

    I normally install Linux based upon what I am doing. Gaming wise is usually popos. (I have eyed up CachyOS). I use Endeavor for a lot of old mac stuff. etc.

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    3 hours ago

    My laptop was, as of a couple of minutes ago, running Windows 11 (for AutoCAD before anyone says anything), but I just installed Fedora again so I’m free!

    My server is running RHEL, which I don’t have an excuse for — I thought it’d be fun, but I’m going to switch over to Proxmox (hopefully) later this year.

    So as it stands, currently, kinda.

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    4 hours ago

    I was HEAVILY into the apple ecosystem, so I have a lot of macs. I have a macbook, running MacOS, and i have a desktop computer that i was using for my server, but instead bought a ras pi, and now use my desktop AS a desktop (partly because i want to dump apple because of all the bootlicking that Tim Apple is doing towards drumpf), which runs linux mint. My ras pi runs ubuntu server. Aside from that, that’s the extent of my home computing. I have an iphone too. But my mac mini goes unused now, and thinking of selling it, but not sure. /rambling

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      4 hours ago

      I usually stick with ubuntu/debian based distros, because it was the first distro system i used when i first used linux. so I stick with what i know. Though I did support a RH server once when i worked in IT.

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    6 hours ago

    Debian always. Stablility is good, good is stability. But i am open to trying fedora in the near future

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    4 hours ago

    Debian home server, macOS desktop, newer laptops run Arch and Fedora, and the two old MacBooks both run Mint DE. Oh, and OpenWrt on the router.