I never thought about it before but I use upstream and downstream without much though. For my personal devices and containers I use Fedora but when it comes to servers and VMs I use Debian for its stable nature.

I also run Linux mint in my homelab with pcie pass though so it functions like a normal desktop.

  • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
    382·
    10 months ago

    This is an aberration. You must choose one and never deviate.

    Seriously though I think it’s pretty normal. When I install Linux i usually pick whatever distro at the time and end up using a couple of different ones. I have arch on my desktop and Pop OS on my laptop at the moment.

    • flashgnash@lemm.ee
      1·
      10 months ago

      When you’ve hopped between all the major branches of linux you kinda realise they’re all the same thing with different package managers anyway

      That said you can pry NixOS out of my cold dead hands

    • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
      44·
      10 months ago

      I have arch (btw) on my desktop and Pop OS on my laptop

      Yeah, my desktop runs arch one laptop runs Ubuntu server and I have a surface 4 running Nobara (a flavour of fesora)

  • tekeous@usenet.lolEnglish
    14·
    10 months ago

    No in fact that’s a violation of the GPLv69 and Richard Stallman is going to come to your house and format your hard drive

  • Holzkohlen@feddit.de
    8·
    10 months ago

    Yes. It’s illegal actually. A Microsoft team has been dispatched and is en route to your place right now to install Win 11 S on all of your devices.

  • mvirts@lemmy.world
    92·
    10 months ago

    It would be weirder to like Linux and Windows, but hey someone had to write samba 😹

    • okamiueru@lemmy.world
      5·
      10 months ago

      Only reason why that is weird to me, is just how much better Linux is. I’m too old to give a shit about a fanboy mentality. Linux used to be something you suffered through in order to get a tradeoff only available to power users. Now, my 90 year old grandmother has an easier time with Linux. It’s more consistent, and doesn’t break stuff nearly as often.

      A more controversial take, is that I feel the same about MacOS. It was a lot of work in order to reduce how often it is annoying.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      63·
      10 months ago

      Samba is much easier to deal with than NFS. I would use it in a all Linux environment honestly.

  • Jessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    61·
    10 months ago

    I keep going back and forth between Xubuntu Minimal and Fedora. Im just tooling around on a $38 Lenovo Chromebook, which has only 16GB of flash storage (soldered of course). Fedora has the smaller footprint, and runs pretty smooth. Xubuntu Minimal is, well, minimal so it is pretty snappy. Xfce is where it’s at for me.

    Sometimes having so much choice can feel like a hindrance when it comes to trying to find a district that checks all of our boxes.

  • Cwilliams@beehaw.org
    4·
    10 months ago

    Is it weird that, although some people prefer blue shirts over red shirts, I wear both colors?

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
    4·
    10 months ago

    I like em all to match usually. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on the desktop/laptop, Leap on my home server.

    Though I didn’t run Arch on my server when I did on my personal computers

  • dr_robot@kbin.social
    51·
    10 months ago

    I do the same. Fedora on my laptop because I want a balance of stability and having the newest features. Servers run Debian, because I don’t have time to fix and update things.

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    Those are both good distros for those purposes. I’m not a fan of Debian as a desktop distro but it’s awesome as a headless server, and Fedora moves too fast for my tastes as a server distro but that’s fine in a desktop.

    So good choice.

  • theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
    41·
    10 months ago

    I think it’s pretty normal. For me, I switch back and forth between NixOS and Arch because neither of them provides me with exactly what I’m looking for i.e a distro that has all the packages I use within its repos (I hate compiling) and is static release (I often forget to update), but is not immutable (sometimes I need special programs for university that can only be obtained via compiling from source on a non-immutable distro). Arch and NixOS both have all the packages I need (only ones that do afaik), and one of them pffers static release but is immutable, while the other is rolling release but is not immutable. Currently I’m on Arch, but when (if) it breaks, I’ll just switch to NixOS instead of fixing it, and use distrobox or something similar for any packages that need to be compiled.