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Do you stick to the same linux distro across your devices? (slrpnk.net)
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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! 😊

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[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 15 minutes ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
LTS Long Term Support software version
NAS Network-Attached Storage
NUC Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers
Plex Brand of media server package
VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

6 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 9 acronyms.

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[–] gurty@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] statelesz@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 hours ago

Arch for Gaming/Desktop, Debian for Server/Proxmox/VPS.

[–] rem26_art@fedia.io 1 points 4 hours ago

Servers are Debian Desktop is Arch Laptop is EndeavorOS

[–] AstroLightz@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Everything but my server uses Arch (BTW). This is so I can have all devices have the same scripts for uniformity.

[–] Fierro@piefed.social 1 points 5 hours ago

My laptop needs reliability to be fairly certain I'll have everything working when I use it on poor internet, my desktop is always comnected to high bandwidth and has a decent cpu so I can spare a bit extra time and cycles on updating everything when something breaks

Different needs

I did like having the same thing going on on both for the couple months I used mint on both.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

Debian on homeserver, centos on work servers, and mint on desktops

[–] pentastarm@piefed.ca 1 points 5 hours ago

SteamOS on my steam deck. Bazzite on my laptop. And fedora on my home server that I'm still learning how to set up(I have immich running in a container, but that was just following an online tutorial. Still trying to understand docker better.)

[–] MuttMutt@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Desktop - Ubuntu Cinnamon LTS (I game and edit video this is also currently my Frigate host)

Laptop - Ubuntu Budgie (It's basically just a thin client to access my desktop when I want to sit in the livingroom)

Stepson's Desktop - ChimeraOS (Because I don't want to deal with anything in his room)

Server - TrueNAS (Been using it since the FreeNAS 9 Era)

Router - OpnSense (Been using that since before I started using FreeNAS)

Different distro's suit different needs. Could I use a single one for everything, yeah with a lot of extra work I don't want to deal with. I'm much more hardware oriented and can make software work tried switching to Linux for everything in the mid 2000's but couldn't do things reliably with it till lately.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)
  • Servers: Ubuntu Jammy
  • NUC: Mint xfce
  • VMs: Kali, Mint, and a variety of others including WIndows & Mac.

I hear a lot of chatter about NixOS. Going to have to check it out.

[–] Fives@discuss.online 1 points 5 hours ago

My server is Debian. My desktop and laptops are all Garuda Linux.

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