I use Ubuntu Mate for a laptop that's 8 years old and is currently serving as a media PC. For my main laptop, I use Fedora/Ubuntu, depending on where I'm at professionally. Right now, I like having Ubuntu maintain updates for Vagrant and Virtualbox for me, since I don't have to worry about manually adding repositories and taking care of dependencies myself. But I love how clean and committed to free software Fedora is, as well as the fact it always has much more recent software than Ubuntu. Fedora requires a bit of fiddling to get licensed stuff (like for mp3/DVD codecs) though whereas Ubuntu is able to get away with providing it in its repositories due to Canonical not being incorporated in the US.
I'm thinking of moving to Arch Linux for the rolling releases (meaning that I'll never have to do a complete reformat to install the latest version of a distro again, ideally).
On servers, I use CentOS for the stability.
TL;DR: On desktops: Ubuntu for easy software installation and Fedora for minimal base/up-to-date software support. For servers: CentOS.
I'm running Linux full-time on it now, but I was using Windows 8.1 with no problems previously.
I know this is a Windows thread but I'm just curious what distro you settled on?
Heh, does one ever really settle?
I use Ubuntu Mate for a laptop that's 8 years old and is currently serving as a media PC. For my main laptop, I use Fedora/Ubuntu, depending on where I'm at professionally. Right now, I like having Ubuntu maintain updates for Vagrant and Virtualbox for me, since I don't have to worry about manually adding repositories and taking care of dependencies myself. But I love how clean and committed to free software Fedora is, as well as the fact it always has much more recent software than Ubuntu. Fedora requires a bit of fiddling to get licensed stuff (like for mp3/DVD codecs) though whereas Ubuntu is able to get away with providing it in its repositories due to Canonical not being incorporated in the US.
I'm thinking of moving to Arch Linux for the rolling releases (meaning that I'll never have to do a complete reformat to install the latest version of a distro again, ideally).
On servers, I use CentOS for the stability.
TL;DR: On desktops: Ubuntu for easy software installation and Fedora for minimal base/up-to-date software support. For servers: CentOS.
Thanks for the info!