I can't give much details, but I saw a lot of production servers done with FreeBSD and Debian.

I've seen a few NixOS servers in production.

I never worked in a company where the OS choice was enforced.

@solene My work (job) is a Windows shop, with some RHEL Linux systems here and there.

At home I mostly use normal Ubuntu for laptops and workstations, though I may be open to switching to something else Debian-based. I have a NAS running FreeBSD, with some FreeBSD jails, and some servers running Debian. I do use OpenBSD on a router and may switch servers to it in the future.

@solene on workstations? Debian.
On servers? Debian.
Inside containers? For distrobox probably Arch Linux.

#debian #arch #archlinux

@solene
Workstation: Slackware -current

I'm assembling a home server next month, and I'm planning to run Slackware or Alpine, whatever suits better.

(The OS choice is also not enforced here, however most people use Macs.)

@solene

#guix on the desktop, guix containers on a debian host in production

#linux #debian #ubuntu #docker

@solene

Home/Work desktop - Xubuntu 22.04
Laptop - Debian 12 XFCE
Local docker containers -
- Debian 11/12
- Misc unknown Linux
Local VMs - Windows 10, Debian 12
Public servers -
- 90% Ubuntu 18.04/22.04
- 10% Debian 11
Internal servers -
- 75% Ubuntu 18.04/22.04
- 20% Debian
- 5% Windows 2019

In the process of transitioning company servers from Ubuntu to Debian.

@solene

I work at a big B2B enterprise software company with Linux friendly policies.

On the laptop - Fedora (stable, boring, no Snap)
On the containers - VMware Photon (compliant, stable, small)
On the servers - Ops manage these for us and we are only allowed to deploy containers, so no idea. Seems to be Centos or RHEL.

@solene

Debian Stable is on just about everything baremetal I run these days if I have a say, except for my gaming system which I recently switched to Arch.

On my workstation I run a hypervisor that lets me run VM's as needed, often find myself in Arch or Debian Testing.

I used to use the redhat family of products about as much as debian, but IBM made a convincing argument and dissuaded me of that.

For containers, it's typically alpine, but I'm missing Container/CoreOS. Honestly though it's a pretty wide variety, including debian.

@solene

Note, I just retired, this is as of a month ago:

- on your workstation
RHEL v8, but I heard v9 will not be allowed and once v8 is EOL, you need to use Fedora or Ubuntu.

- on the servers
AIX, but when I left, a move was being done to RHEL on mainframes partitions

- inside containers
No Linux containers, but it will be RHEL on mainframe partitions

@solene

I am working for an enterprise where the majority of the servers in the Data Centers were Windows servers with the minority systems being a mix of HPUX , RHEL, Debían and Ubuntu. Now HPUX is gone along with centos and the majority of severs with the “cloud first strategy “ that eliminated or lifted and shifted and were replaced by IaaS VMs in most cases.
Now:

- Microsoft WSL (Debian) is popular 
- RHEL and Ubuntu
- containers Ubuntu + lots of Alpine and RHEL

@solene

• my workstation: openSUSE Tumbleweed (the same I use on my private computers)
• servers: Ubuntu LTS
• containers: Hard to tell. Alpine if possible. Usually base images like "python" or "rust". Sometimes debian, because "rust" is based on it. Sometimes ubuntu.

@solene

Forgot to say at home I used mostly Debian.
Every once in a while when I am feeling ambitious I’ll build an LFS system following the latest book at the time.

No time to tinker with exotics. Now a days I try to use a combination of SDF.org’s Netbsd a local WSL(Deb) a GCP Debian VM that’s always on is also Deb. The SDF Meta Array is also Debian… I haven’t realized until now how much Debian I make use of !!

I know that’s boooring to folks but I think it’s stable for me.

@solene Work: Oracle Linux containers on Oracle Linux VMs on Oracle Linux Hypervjsors. (Guess where?)

Home:
- Darwin/xnu, incl iPad+Blink as primary mosh terminal
- Oracle Linux for running terraform against OCI
- FreeBSD for daily workstation
- OmniOS for working on illumos,
- Raspbian GNU/Linux for some smart appliance controls
- Synology DSM for NAS
- Alpine Linux for containers
- Windows laptop I intend to unixize but haven’t had time. Maybe Haiku or Redox?

@solene
I use two #Linux distros currently:

- #Slackware (Server and desktop)
- #Debian (Server and desktop)

It varies wildy... from DNS to webhosting... everything goes. Both offer endless possibilities.

Btw: #BSD systems running here to.

All are used at my home. At work it is mostly MS tech. (MSP)

I've used them both for:
- NAS
- Webhosting
- Container host
- VM host (KVM)
- IRC (tmux/weechat/irssi)
- Jumphost
- and more I forgot 😂

@solene

Though $PRIMARY_CLIENT is primarily a Windows/Azure shop, they've got one server running Ubuntu on a VPS.

@solene Personally, Fedora as my workhorse on my Laptop, FreeBSD NAS, OpenBSD for Internet facing httpd for static sites, DNS and Mailserver, and Rocky Linux for various self hosted web apps via Docker. In docker in run whatever the docker images come with. But my own images would be preferably based on Alpine.

For work, macOS on a MacBook, RHEL and CentOS 7 on servers. CentOS currently being replaced with Rocky Linux.

If it counts, I also run Termux on my GrapheneOS phone!

@solene
laptop: opensuse+sway.
Server: FreeBSD / Alpine Linux
Container: Alpine Linux

Maybe will change Laptop to Alpine in the future if I have enough time.

@solene servers? Alpine Linux containers in Kubernetes

workstations? macOS

@solene #opensuse #tumbleweed on both work and private laptop.

#opensuse #microos on most of my personal servers.

Usually #SLES15 on customers servers, with some leftover #SLES12 or 11...

@solene hi!
My personal laptop is running Debian testing and my personal servers are running Debian too.

At work I had no choice: Windows 10.
However all the servers are running Linux, most of them Debian.

@solene

#Archlinux / #Debian on personnals workstations. Trying #NixOS on my game machine and I love it.

#FreeBSD + jails on my server.

#Debian at work (servers and workstation)

@solene Workstation: FreeBSD, however only macOS is supported for tech staff.

Servers: Amazon Linux and Ubuntu.

Containers: Alpine and Ubuntu.