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This question made me laugh. Seriously. I have a laptop and a desktop, each with 32GB of RAM in them. 2.1 TB of storage in the laptop, about 3TB in the desktop.

Here's why I give that detail... they are both VM host machines.

Host OS is Ubuntu 13.10.

For VMs, It's in this order of frequency. Ubuntu 13.10 (all work-related VMs use this) Arch Linux CentOS 6.5

Ubuntu 14.04 RHEL 7b ElementaryOS Maui Project (non-Linux OSes)

Ubuntu 13.04 and 13.10.

Though I don't like where Ubuntu is heading, so I'm trying to find a new distro to switch to. But no luck yet.

Curious to hear more about your feelings on this, and what other distros you've looked at.

Arch for personal and small stuff, Ubuntu LTS or RHEL otherwise. If you want to go uberlibre, go for Parabola.

Debian testing (Jessie). Not a huge gnome3 fan, but once I got xmonad working it was smooth sailing.

I favor Arch on the desktop/laptop and Debian on the servers.

CentOS on production servers and on VMs on local dev machines.

ElementaryOS on my laptop just because it's clean and simple, but retains ubuntu compatibility since it's based off of 12.04.

Ubuntu 13.04 at work.

My journey to Linux : Ubuntu -> Arch -> and now Gentoo. Wonderful way to go deeper and deeper into the Linux world. :-)

I have been using Debian for a long time, and now a days I also use Porteus Linux from my USB.

Fedora, mostly. Sometimes CentOS.

Elementary OS (Based on Ubuntu 12.04). Just started using linux.. beautiful UI. :)

Ubuntu 13.10: Saucy Salamander -- but I'm eager for the LTS release of 14.04

Desktop: Linux Mint 14 with Cinnamon | Servers: Ubuntu 12.4 LTS

Ubuntu on workstation and laptop, Debian for everything else.

Across various machines, a mix of Crunchbang and Debian Sid.

Ubuntu 13.10 on both desktop and laptop. I just love Unity.

Laptop: Mint 15, Desktop: Mint 14, Servers: Ubuntu 13.10

Am i really the only person so far who uses gentoo?

You're not the only one. Switched a few months back after using Arch for years. It was one hell of a time sink to begin with but I find it to be unfathomably stable for a rolling release distro. I'll be sticking with it, at least until I get an irresistible itch to try Linux From Scratch.

Yea man, gentoo has a learning curve, but portage is just a dream. If you don't hack it and properly use the package.files the way they were intended it's amazingly customizable and portable.

Debian stable + KDE apps and Awesome as my WM.

Slackware on my laptop.

Slackware on my desktop.

Slackware on my servers.

(Mint on GF's lappy).

Slackware for personal use. CentOS for work.

Debian testing (Jessie is really top notch.)

Debian unstable.

Mint 16 on laptop ubuntu 13 on new servers

Debian unstable

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on desktop and servers.

Linux Mint 15 (Olivia) w/ Cinnamon

Slackware 14.1 to do everything I need.

Debian Testing

Ubuntu 13.04, it's sexy as hell.

13.04

CrunchBang linux on laptop

Ubuntu 13.04 with xmonad

arch，and rhel/centos for server

Kubuntu 13.10

LUbuntu 13.10

debian x64 on my dell vostro.

Fedora.

Centos

debian stable

(L)Ubuntu 13.10

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