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Fedora on my primary desktop. I've got Linux Mint on an old laptop. Personal servers are a mix of CentOS and FreeBSD 11, mostly because I wanted to mess around with BSD.

> Why did you choose them?

I'm a certified Red Hat guy, so Fedora and CentOS were easy picks. Fedora also has good support for Steam/Linux gaming, and it has packages that are fresh. Occasionally too fresh, and I've definitely had an update break stuff

FreeBSD, as mentioned above, was mostly on a lark, or chance to learn the system. Stable, solid back-end system tho.

Linux Mint was mostly because it was laptop and I wanted the drivers to work.

> What problems do you face with them and what changes would you like them do make?

Honestly Fedora is fine as a daily driver these days. Steam works well, and most games work fine with Proton; the handful that don't aren't really the fault of the OS.

Mint has some issues with security and their repos, which makes me nervous, but from a technical standpoint it's fine.



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