Zenwalk on the desktop lately, FreeBSD on my server and U5, NetBSD on my laptop 
gentoo on my lappy and fedora on my desktop.
After years with suse, I try some other distros, among them gentoo. Switched back to suse. Installed Demudi (debian based multimedia optomised distribution) in paralell of suse. Done the same realtime kernel on suse as on demudi.
Switched suse to gentoo with the audio pro overlay in augusti 2005. Switched Demudi to 64 Studio (another debian based multimedia distribution, more up to date as Demudi) it was a week ago. Both with fvwm.
Why I like gentoo: mainly because if have the best documentation and the best forum of all the distributions I know. And also because it is in many cases very easy to do its own ebuild in order to incorpore a foreign program in gentoo.
Why I used Demudi and now 64 studio: because they are, with gentooās audio pro overlay, the best multimedia distribution I know.
Debian in the laptop.
Ubuntu in the desktop.
In the future Iāll try gentooā¦
Crux for everything now \o/
Gentoo on all machines ā¦
debian sid/unstable (what is very stable) since about 2 years I think.
I used linuxfromscratch.org before
At home:
In the past: Slackware, Gentoo, Archlinux.
Now Debian Unstable
At work I have no choice:
Windows + cygwin + fvwm (of course )
at work and at home: Debian Testing.
@sewi: how good or bad does fvwm under windows work?
I run gentoo on three desktops and my laptop Think itrrrs great.
btw I do believe we win LOL
I was using Ubuntu, OpenSUSE and Debian for 3 years. Liked OpenSUSE the most because of the logo to be honest. But recently i tried Fedora soā¦ I think i like it. So i can say that iām a Fedora user now lol.
13 years later and still using Gentoo basically everywhere. Had a little stint with Slackware but that didnāt go anywhere and I avoid distributions that force, or are likely to start forcing, systemd.
Might need to have a deeper look into the BSDs.
They (RedHat) are trying to make GPL licensed Windows out of GNU/Linux,
because systemd will brake all portability, even now many software, like gnome-shell uses
systemd as a dependency (And new KDE?)ā¦ Also systemd replaces many pieces of software,
it is good for corporations, like RedHat with its payed support, but bad for regular users.
If OpenBSD ssh daemon was created after systemd, I donāt think that someone of OpenBSD
team cared a lot about compatibility with systemdā¦
Also it is very sad that such āopen source idolsā like Linux Torvalds uses systemdā¦
IMO itās because RedHat pay him.
Not even speaking about that systemd has very poor design, and some security issues
suckless.org/sucks/systemd
You should try FreeBSD with its ports tree, Gentoo was heavily inspired by FreeBSD BTW,
it is mimicating many of its features, like ports tree. Or OpenBSD (ports are also available)
is also very good OS, but FreeBSD is better for desktop a little bit, for example there is
no wine for OpenBSD, also nvidia proprietary drivers are not available when using OpenBSD.
DragonFlyBSD uses FreeBSD ports tree, not bad OS also, but there are no proprietary nvidia
drivers also, and also no wine. NetBSD also not bad, I like it much, it got its own ports,
wine is available (but a little bit old version, las time I used it it was 1.6) but there is no
nvidia drives for NetBSD also. Personally for me, the availability of wine for desktop OS is very
important, sometimes I like to play few old Windows games, like Hitman for example.
Also, almost all of these OS-es are much more stable than any GNU/Linux distro BTW.
Debian testing without systemd.
You should try Devuan, it is Debian without systemd,
when using it, you donāt need to fear that some packages will install systemd
as a dependency, because many packages (more than 300 packages, when comparing with original Debian)
are built without systemd as a dependency. also there is no need to remove it (systemd) manually after OS installation.
I would try out Devuan if I was on stable, but for testing, Iām gonna stick with Debian. If systemd ever gets installed by accident, then I will just roll back to an earlier snapshot.
Try Devuan Ascii ā it is testing (Debian Stretch), (Devuan Jessie is a stable branch)
it is a better option if you donāt use systemd. IMO of course.
Why to use (and support?) an OS, if you donāt use all of its components?
Why not to try to use LFS (Linux From Scratch) if you like to do things manually?
Many Debian packages uses systemd as a dependency,
while these packages are rebuilt in Devuan repository.
I donāt want to start arguing but it seems more logical for me.
Iām currently using Mint/MATE 17.3. Iām not sure where Iāll end up in the future, because, like recent posters here, Iām unhappy with systemd being pushed on us.
I will probably try some other things out in VirtualBox before deciding what my next move is. Iām curious about some flavor of BSD, but recent reports about security vs. manpower have me concerned. Yes, Devuan is of interest.
Do not trust too much to articles about BSDs from Linux fans.
Here is nice article about FreeBSD vs Linux with systemd blog.synergysky.com/whydidwebuil ā¦ of_freebsd