cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/35084396
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! 😊
I don’t. In fact I don’t have two devices running the same distro at the moment.
My desktop is running Fedora KDE, which offered solid Wayland performance with my hardware.
My laptop is running Mint Cinnamon. Fedora would work on it, but it’s funny how often I have to dig out the laptop to do something because the software doesn’t work on Fedora.
My tablet is running Fedora GNOME because for a touch UI it’s the least worst. It’s fuckpuke, but it’s not boiling caustic fuckpuke.
My HTPC is running Bazzite. Mostly in desktop mode because most of what I do with it is watch Youtube and there isn’t a good solution to do that in Steam Big Picture mode.
I have a couple Pis running PiOS because there’s basically not a better solution.