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“Oh god, they will immediately be able to tell I am a fraud who has no idea what he’s doing when I tell them I use Ubuntu”

"Steam Deck now leave me alone"

Definitely not Arch then?

I use Arch, btw

of course the true and only "hannah montana linux"

So what is your distro? ;)

Steam Deck. ;)

Does steam OS count as an answer?

Since developing early onset dementia, I've had to switch to mint.

It goes to another school. You would not know it.

You can try to get away with the classic "I use Arch btw." Either they are seriously impressed and don't ask any further then, or you fucked up completely.

WSL

What's a distro? I just use the Linux kernel on a potato 🥔

Sometimes you just need an undebatable excuse. I use Linux Mint because LM are my initials and I'm too lazy to move to any other recommendations

-What distro do you use?

-Chrome OS

Proxmox 😎

I use Windows BTW

Raspbian 💪

Umm... Arch... -buntu... Hat... Linux?

Just always answer "Red Star OS".

I tend to use whatever I consider the best one for that particular job. For example: Desktop/gaming: I currently use Ubuntu here because of greater commercial compatibility. But I am using Pop_OS on my System76 laptop and am liking it and may switch to that next time I need to rebuild the desktop image since it is downstream from Ubuntu compatibility should not be an issue. It would save be several post install customizations.

Homelab virtual infra hosting: Proxmox. Because I wanted fancy features without having to pay for a VMWare VMUC license.

Firewall/Router: PFSense

Homelab Infra VMs: Debian Stable for what I consider "backbone" services like DNS and Ubuntu server for things like Jellyfin and my Bookstack server where I am less concerned with it being rock solid.

I used to keep a Windows VM for the rare Windows specific things I wanted/needed. But eventually I got rid of that because I never needed it anyway.

btw i use android

Its called a file

I'm really liking Pop OS! I'd still be using Ubuntu if it wasn't for Pop tbh. I've also had some fun with Elementary OS, but their hostile stance on tray icons is killing my workflow.

Ideological design bullshit shouldn't get in the way of making a good product tbh.

I love mint and solus :) Currently on mint

It’s, er, a variant of FreeBSD.

This used to be me while I distrohopped. Now, I've settled on which distro I will use. I use Arch, btw.

Unraid, pfsense, and ubuntu server running pterodactyl panel / wings

ManjaDebEndevNix is my favorite

you guessed it, I use joborun, like arch without systemd, runit optionally s6/66

I once was so enthusiastic about Fedora...

Red Star OS.

I use Ubuntu ... but I frequent the Arch forums.

My first thought with this meme was chronic distrohopping. Do I tell them what I'm using this week? Or the last distro I used for any amount of time? Do I tell them the obscure distro name or the name of the major distro it's forked off of? If I'm dual booting do I tell them the experimental OS I'm daily driving or the reliable fallback I have on my other partition?

XeroLinux. It's a nice, convenient Arch-based one with a good installer and helper app. Makes getting into Arch feel a lot more newbie-friendly. I disable the latte docker and crazier desktop effects though, I like mine more plain and fast.

You're all beta testers for Rocky Linux.

Grateful we have passed the point at which this meme is relevant. Microsoft would never have imagined this 25 years ago.

I'd like to interject for a moment, what you are referring to as Mexico is in fact the United States of Mexico.  A Federation Republic comprised of 31 free and sovereign States each with its own constitution, judiciary, and democratically election Congressional entity.   The 31 individual and unique States form a Federation consisting of a bilateral Congress consisting of a Republic Senate and a Chamber of Deputies entrusted with creation of law,  imposing taxes,  ratifying treaties and international diplomacy.  The Federal entity is further comprised of an Executive wing charged with enforcing the laws,  emergency dictation and commanding the military.  The third and final wing is a Judicial entity consisting of regional courts and a High Court of 11 jurist charged with interpreting any discrepancies that may between the Sovreign States or within the Law itself

(red star OS and android btw)

Windows of course. when you run wsl it becomes linux distro

As someone who gradually went from arch to Manjaro to Ubuntu because I kept breaking my installs or not having time, this resonates lol.

Whatever the Steam Deck runs.

Say Debian and the type of person who asks this will immediately go “oh fuck. He’s a nerd…”

Hannah Montana Linux of course. Disney uses on their disney plus servers

When people hear I'm using Linux they're always like "Must be some Ubuntu" (I actually use Endeavour)

I like arch, but also use debian on computers I don't use often. Then I mess with the bsds on a few spare thinkpads.

Ubuntu. lol

Not for real, just want to stir the pot.

openKylin /s

Mandrake, obv

Almalinux. I used to use centos on servers and fedora workstation on my desktops but have switched over to Almalinux for both. Will be interesting to see what shakes out with the whole Redhat source repo change.

Ubuntu was unstable for me on my desktop every time I tried. I always disliked Ubuntu on servers.

TEMPLE!!!!

smugs in Parabola

SLINUX — obviously, and I work at SNASA.

Retro pc/laptop (like my Thinkpad X200s) with AntiX linux + herbsluftwm is the perfect combination to feel "retro computing sensation."

It's crazy that out of so many replies not even one was LFS.

I will gladly tell them that i use arch btw

VoidLinux sounds pretty interesting.

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Would android count?

btw i use android