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! 😊

  • cevn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 hours ago

    Fedora on laptop. Fedora on desktop. Fedora in the server. Fedora in WSL.

  • arcine@jlai.luEnglish
    3·
    5 hours ago

    I use NixOS on everything ! This way, I can re-use parts of my configuration as a base, and customise only the few things that need to change from one machine to the other.

    The only exception is my Steam Deck. I trust Valve on that one, and my usage of it is so different from other computers as to make 95% of my config entirely irrelevant anyway.

  • lensflare@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    5 hours ago

    My home server is on unraid while my other machines are on OpenSuse. Having a webui makes it so much easier for someone other than me to take care of stuff if I’m not around

    • Teppichbrand@feddit.orgEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      I was like you for many years. From Windows to Mint and never changed. Now I got a second hand laptop from a couple of years ago and put ublue Aurora on it. I REALLY like the experience!

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    7 hours ago

    No, I’ve got nobara on my gaming rig, batocera on my wife’s retro console that’s just turned into a kodi device, and proxmox on my server

  • hamsda@feddit.orgEnglish
    1·
    7 hours ago

    Ha, I wish I could.

    I’m not 100% satisfied, so I’m still searching for the “perfect distro for me”, if it even exists.

    I have been using Arch Linux on my personal PC and company laptop for 4 years, but I couldn’t get some things to work. Things that, after installing Fedora, worked out of the box.

    My current setup is:

    • EndeavourOS (e.g. arch linux with a GUI-installer) for my PC at home
    • Fedora Workstation 43 for my company laptop
    • Servers are all running Debian, I’ll probably never change that
    • Hypervisor for VMs is Proxmox VE, which is Debian too
  • halyihev@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    7 hours 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.

  • one_knight_scripting@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    5 hours 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.

  • exu@feditown.comEnglish
    5·
    12 hours ago

    I use Arch (btw) on my desktops and laptops.

    On my servers I’m halfway through replacing Debian with openSUSE.

    My desktop and servers have different use cases and I interact with them in different ways, so there’s little confusion for me.

    • jhdeval@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 hours ago

      I feel the same way. I use fedora on my laptops and desktops and debian on my servers. Generally my servers do not have or need a gui so debian makes it easy to install without. I tried fedora server once and i just was not happy with it.