Hej lemmings! (Hoping this is relevant enough for the selfhosted commjnity)

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! 😊

  • Mike@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    21 days ago

    I use Fedora on my personal laptop and DietPi on my RaspberryPi 4 where I selfhost a bunch of stuff.

  • dil@piefed.zipEnglish
    1·
    22 days ago

    It causes issues, like bazzite has the same profile name, IDK if I missed the option to change it. Cant use the virtual mouse swap across computers because they require different names and it has an error related to that.

  • one_knight_scripting@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    21 days ago

    Thanks to hyprland, I’ve fallen in love with Arch. Sure it works on other distros, but the AUR is great for easy configuration. I’m running it on my container server, my laptop, my gaming rig, and my OneXPlayer(portable gaming rig). That said, I have been eyeing CachyOS because of the kernel optimization plus it seems easier to install.

    • d3lta19@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      20 days ago

      If you already have arch installed, don’t worry about how hard it is to install. All done! You can also run the cachyos kennel in arch if you want

      • one_knight_scripting@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        20 days ago

        Huh, I didn’t realize there was an AUR for it already. It would only take yay -S linux-cachyos.

        But I need to fix my btrfs/snapper anyways.

        I broke it after reverting by messing up my subvolumes. Swap was not properly setup and somehow reverting also broke my snapshots subvolume.

        I also want time to test on my spare laptop first so I can create a script/config for it to deploy to my school laptop and gaming rig. But it’s exam week for school and I need to finish transferring a 25TB VM to a hardware server.

        I’ll mess with it over spring break.

  • timmytbt@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    21 days 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.

  • Tywèle@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    21 days ago

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

  • El Perro Negro@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    22 days ago

    For me it depends on computer capability. 3 generations of laptop… Current: PopOS Older: MiniOS Oldest (32bit): AntiX

    • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      22 days ago

      Oldest (32bit)

      I still have a functional 32 bit laptop. It’s rather slow, but it does work

  • gurty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    22 days ago

    Ubuntu for the main pc and Arch for the filthy weird frankenstein laptop from 2008. Just as god intended.

  • BladeFederation@piefed.socialEnglish
    6·
    22 days ago

    No, and that’s the beauty of Linux.

    Desktop gaming PC: Fedora KDE (might try Bazzite if I stop dual booting Windows, but I already got Nvidia set up and that’s the hard part)

    Old laptop: Zorin OS

    Old as dirt laptop: antiX

    Wife’s Surface: Pop!_OS 22.04. Maybe change it eventually to something lighter.

    I will likely go with Ubuntu Server or Debian when I set up my home server. Ubuntu seems like it has better Docker support.

  • halyihev@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    21 days ago

    Currently my primary laptop is on LMDE and my secondary laptop is on GhostBSD just because I wanted to try out BSD. I’m thinking of taking a third laptop and putting EndeavourOS on it. That was my primary OS until an update blew up the EFI partition and I read “yeah, that happens sometimes” and decided my primary system should be a bit more stable than that. But I did really like EndeavourOS other than that. I have an old notebook PC I’ve thought about putting Haiku-OS on just for fun, if I can figure out what I did with the power cord for it.

  • Creat@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    3·
    22 days ago

    All normal PCs run CachyOS, includes gaming PCs, laptops and media PCs. All servers run some form of Debian (includes Proxmox) or a dedicated distro for their use (TRUE WAS, technically also Debian based).

  • Pumpkin Escobar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    21 days ago

    Arch everywhere. LTS kernel on servers and zen kernel on desktop and laptop. I love the idea of nixos but in practice it felt like more work than it was worth (to me).

    I originally did Debian on servers but after using arch for long enough and never having stability problems, it was easier to move to the same distro.