What’s a Desktop? Just kidding!
Lubuntu mainly with VMs of many others including Solaris and xBSD’s.
On Lubuntu 15.04 with current stable Kernel and Libressl on main workstation.
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After many years of being an archer (~7) I’m on F21 since last December when it came out. I must admit I miss the flexibility, minimalism, clean design and overall fat-free approach of Arch Linux but to my surprise I find myself quite comfortable running Fedora. In fact it feels that’s a distro with the focus on sysadmins 
On my home server I run F22 Beta and at work I use CentOS/RHEL on our projects; however by corporate policy my own workstation is an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ¬¬
Both my laptop and my NAS are Btrfs-formatted, LUKS encrypted and SELinux enabled.
My desktop everywhere consists of i3wm-gaps (a fork of i3 to show some space between tiled windows) + i3blocks (splendid status bar extender) + j4-dmenu-desktop (cool dmenu replacement) + quickswitch-i3 (bring’s Vim functionality to manage app windows, quite handy) + Compton for some eye candy + tmux (how to live without it) + Fish shell ( it’s not POSIX compliant) + Emacs <3 + nm-applet for a handy managing of my VPNs: https://i.imgur.com/0JHMVyf.png
My /etc directory, valuable ~/dot{files,directories} and some of my documents are managed with git + private repos at Bitbucket.
I need to check git-annex in depth when I have some spare time and find a good clipboard manager too…
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Please let me know when you find it.
I liked diodon on ubuntu. I’m experimenting with GPaste on Fedora, not bad, but I still can’t grasp it.
I use many different ‘workstations’ here for different purposes, but I have a Mac-Pro I do most of my daily work on. I really, really like Linux Mint 17, and it’s not so resource intensive that it can’t be installed on older Windows boxes that came with XP or the dreaded Vista. 
For workhorse server machines Ubuntu-server and CentOS are hard to beat.
As I fix computers and do small scale networking for a living, I like to experiment with different flavors of Linux and other OS’s.
Reliability-wise, I think my Mac-Pro tops the list. It’s a first generation Intel-based Mac (2006), and I have had almost zero problems with it in the 6 years I’ve owned it. Thanks to a ‘time-machine’ backup, I was able to restore a failed HDD a couple years ago in less than an hour, and lost none of my data. That was the one and only failure since I purchased the machine. Unfortunately, I can’t upgrade past OSX 10.6.8, since Apple in their infinite wisdom decided to make OSX Lion unavailable for upgrade anymore, and the machine is supposedly too old for anything past that. But, I’ll just keep using it till it won’t run anymore. It damn sure beats ANY version of Windows by a mile… and I was an avid Windows user until I got this machine. Now I only keep a few Windows boxes around for compatibility sake, for my customers. 
Dave Land
Land Computer Service
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Did you know there is a version of Mint Linux for Mac… well the Power PC’s anyway? I have a MacBook G4 with MintPPC 9.2 on it. I don’t know if they’re still updating it though. I don’t use that machine too much.
Are you speaking about my iMac at home? 
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I have already mentioned that I am a big fan of SUSE (openSuse and SLED) – re post: SLES12 based Nethserver implementation?
I have had experienced of most distributions (and probably all main-stream distros - eg Suse, Debian, Slackware, Arch, Red-Hat, Gentoo etc.) but prefer RPM based installs.
As far as desktop GUIs, I like KDE / QT a lot (have been using KDE since version 3) but also found that a lot of my clients / end-users prefer to use Mate (I really dislike Gnome 3).
I also like the Enlightment and XFCE projects (also I should mention the terminal / console and ncurses based projects such as Midnight Commander and Yast.)
I am still a user of WinXP as a OS for games and entertainment software (such as XBMC)
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I’m testing currently centos7 on a dell E6510, quite fine, it looks fun…I’m Fed(ora) up … at the end I will return to Debian, let me just one month
Debian win! Stable, testing or sid?
I do love stability, I just want to work : my $debian = $stable->get(‘Jessie’);
I’m on mint just beacouse i’ve no more time for sid
I use Mint, but I confess that it runs in VMbox on my Win7 desktop.
Hi @filippo_carletti,
I finally settled for CopyQ: it probably has more feature than I’ll ever need but conversely has some goodies that the other alternatives lacks.
May be you could find it useful too!
It seems a bit overkill and the hotkeys don’t work for me.
Well yes, it’s like The Big Bertha of the clipboard managers 
Regarding the hotkeys they work fine here (once you’re inside the application, of course); to invoke the clipboard manager - I preload it when desktop loads - I use “copyq toggle” mapped to a shortcut.
Funny thing is that In the list I shared there’s a clipboard manager that uses dmenu and a hack to save clipboard’s contents in a text file; that would do perfectly to me if it wasn’t for one annoying bug… May be I can find some time to debug it.
Best.
I use Arch Linux and before that Ubuntu. Lots of windows and Mac too.
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