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.

  • Cwilliams@beehaw.org
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    9 months ago

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

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 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.

  • Jessica@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    9 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.

  • Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Why should it be? I drive Arch on my desktop and Debian 12 Bookworm on my laptop, they are very different distributions but both serve me very well.

  • MangoKangaroo@beehaw.org
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    9 months ago

    I use Debian as a default and Fedora when I need a newer kernel/newer libraries. You aren’t weird at all. Or, at least we’re weird together. :)

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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    9 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

  • mvirts@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

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

    • okamiueru@lemmy.world
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      9 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.

  • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
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    9 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.

  • Holzkohlen@feddit.de
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    9 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.

  • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
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    9 months ago

    I just stick with one because I’m boring. I’ve used it for a long time, it works, I haven’t really changed anything in years. I think it’s pretty cool to talk with people who are polydistroamorous though.

  • anamethatisnt@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I’m using Fedora GNOME for my pcie passthrough desktop vm and Debian Bookworm for my hypervisor and virtual servers.
    When Bookworm ages I’m sure I’ll mix in other distros for vm servers to try out stuff that isn’t available in Debian Stable yet.
    I’m also curious to set up a virtual NixOS and a virtual Fedora Silverblue/Atomic just to check them out.

    I also don’t order the same pizza everytime.

  • dr_robot@kbin.social
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    9 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.