So far I haven’t had any major issues whatsoever with MX running KDE, other than Vbox being the absolute worst to attempt to get working (which I still can’t). Otherwise, works fine enough for what I need.

I’m running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

99% happy, once in a blue moon there is a library issue during an update, I have to wait a few days, that’s it.

Very solid KDE experience, all of the things I wanted to do worked out of the box. Very solid.

I’ve been on Nobara for almost a year now and am really happy with it. The only distro I’d probably switch to is Bazzite just to try out immutability, but aside from that I’m good where I am.

I’m still rocking my 2011 Arch install, immediately ended my distro hopping for over a decade and still going strong.

Fedora fees like a nice and tightly integrated distro. I’m no apple fan but I can appreciate consistent UX, I feel like Fedora for now is the closest to that level of experience, whilst pioneering in desktop-centric technologies.

I have this looming fear that IBM will somehow fuck everything over someday, but as far as I understand, the Fedora project still operates with the same level of autonomy as they did pre-aquisition.

Gosh that’s a little personal, isn’t it?

OK-ish. I use Manjaro. It’s a pretty good idea to read Announcements before updating: https://forum.manjaro.org/c/announcements/

It may have instructions on how to update without borking your system. For example, the February update broke Plymouth, causing systems using it to be unbootable. Sort of. It would actually boot, just to a black screen. On one of the threads someone reported being able to SSH into his PC just fine.

Or the May update bringing Plasma 6 to stable. The recommendation was to reset Plasma to defaults, log out, stop SDDM and update from TTY. I tested doing exact opposite of that in VM, and it still went fine, except for missing icons, but still a good idea just to be safe.

But I had some other problems too.

February update: Booting to black screen. I found threads mentioning the same stuff for this update. Cool. “Remove Plymouth or just don’t use splash”. I… already disabled splash (and quiet to make boot-up cooler).
Fix: Updating Linux 5.15 LTS to 6.6 LTS. Something changed in 5.15 making it break on my laptop, I guess. I couldn’t even get to TTY without nomodeset.
Furthermore, the animations became choppy after resuming from sleep.

May update: Turning on Bluetooth may cause system crash. It would show as “ON”, but actually be inactive while shoving already paired devices. This couldn’t be reversed. Logging out and back in would lead to only the welcome screen and yakuake showing up. Trying to reboot from both yakuake and plain TTY would stop mid-way. After issuing reboot, the system would be mostly dead, but still kinda running. Linux still responded to magic SysRq.
Fix: Upgrading Linux 6.6 LTS to 6.9.

So, I can deal with it, and it definitely taught me to use Timeshift. Oh, and the brightness buttons sometimes stop working.

Been using Debian stable again this year, but this time in a VM (Windows host. I know, I know.)

I’m very happy with it. I tried other distros but kept coming back to Debian.

I use OpenBSD on my prod machine and vps, and that’s serving me very well (other than suspend and usb expansions cards being buggy on my framework laptop (latter might be hardware issues))

I have the default SteamOS on my steam deck; I’m not a fan of its immutable filesystem paradigm and not shipping with any real package manager besides flatpak, so I’m thinking of putting Void Linux on it at some point.

My phone runs PostmarketOS (alpine based mobile OS); which is adding support for systemd and making it default for phosh, kde and gnome installations; which I’m disappointed about to say the least. openrc will still be supported, but given it’s no longer the default (and requires recompilation to change), it’s probably taking a backseat to systemd. openrc will still ship by default on sxmo, but I’m ready to find an alternative at this point. Maybe I should look into trying to port OpenBSD to the pinephone again, as much as a dream as that seems like. Looks like there’s also been some effort put into porting Void Linux to the pinephone, so I’ll check that out.

Recently tried Kubuntu. It was able to successfully connect to my docking station with double 4k monitors connected too, which some other distros failed at. So pretty happy with that I suppose.

All in all, I still find most distros to be hit and miss with issues. There’s always something that makes it meh. Like missing features or inconveniences.

Sometimes I think the Linux community should try to consolidate more to focus on a few well-working distros rather than the large amount of distros that are currently there, each with their own set of issues.

Very happy with my Arch setup since 3-4 years I believe. But my laptop that I use and update too irregularly to justify having Arch on it, probably needs an alternative :D

Started using Endeavour OS a few years back. Not necessarily the most stable, but I think my current install is the longest running single install I’ve ever had. Even if I screw something up and it won’t boot I’ve been able to recover without a reinstall.

Arch + i3wm on my work laptop and I love it. Super functional.

I got a refresh/new laptop and they put Ubuntu on it. Really miss Arch’s repos & package manager. Probably will switch it at some point.

I’ve been using EndeavourOS for a few years now, which is effectively a “good sane defaults” Arch out of the box. I’ve attempted to use numerous distros in between (including plain Arch) but there’s always something I feel is missing or just isn’t right (for me).

I’m using Manjaro for my desktop and laptop. If I had to pick a new distro today, I’d likely give EndeavourOS a try. But Manjaro has been working well for me for a several years now, does everything I want with little drama, and issues have been few. So I’m a happy camper and I’ll keep on using it.

I have a home server that has been running Debian Stable since the mid-2000’s or so. It just chugs right along, so complaints are few. Though occasionally having to deal with the old versions of some of the packages on it can be annoying.