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Debian Testing. Prior to this I used Ubuntu 12.04. I didn't upgrade to Ubuntu 12.10 because I decided I didn't want to give my support to a distro which leaks private data on purpose, by default, without warning, for money.

RHEL, CentOS, and Amazon Linux for servers.

Fedora on my workstation for development, I'm more comfortable with the administration since the tools are similar to RHEL. I prefer to use a separate mac laptop for VOIP, video chat and powerpoint/keynote, and whatever else.

Android on my phone (you did ask for Linux distributions...), Debian GNU/Linux on vps'/servers, and Ubuntu 12.10 on my netbook - as I need to be a little closer to the edge for (almost) proper driver support.

SolusOS 1.2. Previously I was mainly an Ubuntu user, but I didn't agree with the direction in which the distro was going with its dash/Amazon/search exfiltration decision.

Ubuntu 11.04, although if I wasn't teaching high school I'd use something different now. I stay with Ubuntu because that's what most of my Linux-using students use.

If you don't mind me asking, why so far behind?

I just haven't made the time to update my own machine. My students are running 12.04.

I have 11.04 too and I'm going to stay there for a while. It does what I want how I want it to do it.

12.04 had horrible performance issues on my machine when I tested it and the overall UX was poor and too dumbed down.

IMO, the whole Unity/Dash thing sucks to no end. It looks like the Ubuntu guys and me have different views on the purpose of a personal computer.

When I feel like upgrading my system, I'll probably look elsewhere (Xubuntu, Mint, Debian…) anyway.

http://elementaryos.org/journal/when-its-ready Still in alpha, unfortunately.

Beta 1 is out and it's great!

Crunchbang (http://crunchbang.org/). It's Openbox + Debian-based distro with great defaults.

Trusty old Debian with no fancy window manager.

But I'm planning on playing around with the new Enlightenment when I have some more free time.

Xubuntu, with awesome for the window manager.

Ubuntu 11.04, without anything fancy.

Lubuntu 12.10. I have plenty of horsepower for other stuff, but I just don't need it.

Ubuntu LTS (so currently 12.04)

Ubuntu, Gentoo, BackTrack

Fedora 17 running Cinnamon as my desktop environment. My time is spent between Rhythmbox, Chrome, urxvt {tmux {weechat}}, and pidgin.

On my desktop, Debian unstable with XFCE.

None, I was using Ubuntu until recently.

Arch with xmonad as my window manager (http://xmonad.org/)

Mint (Cinnamon) and Fedora (LXDE spin)

Slackware

Slackware 14 64bit. Returning to slack after a hiatus of about 6 years

Debian testing with LXDE

Loving Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon, very very tired of Ubuntu Unity

ArchLinux with wmii, chromium, rxvt-unicode, SBCL, and vim.

Linux mint 12 at home for personal projects/open source.

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my desktop

Ubuntu 12.10 on a netbook

Fedora 16 runs on my school's labs

Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon, with xmonad as window manager

Arch, with GNOME

Ubuntu 12.10 and Fedora (16 I think).

Arch, running Compiz + xfce4-panel.

Ubuntu LTS.

Ubuntu on my desktop. I can also boot to Debian on my desktop, and have a number of VM images for various distros. Android ICS on my tablet. Bluehost, Dreamhost and EC2 are my servers. Dreamhost uses Debian and Ubuntu. On EC2, I've spun up the Amazon micro AMI and Ubuntu AMIs. Bluehost has a custom CentOS fork.

Arch

Ubuntu

Arch linux with gnome.

Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon

ubuntu 12.04 (planning to try out mint(cinnamon)

Gentoo with XFCE.

Ubuntu 12.10

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