I saw this survey of what people use for their workstation in 2022. No big surprises, but Ubuntu is ahead of Mac. You gotta like that!
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They obviously did not ask me. my vote goes , in order,
Void
Debian
Solus
Devuan
But I will not be surprised if others disagree.
Its great to have the choice
+1 for VOID!!!
Void of any OS at all. 
HAHAH
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Yes, independent, rolling release, no systemd, best package system and a BSD style
Strange to see the term âworkstationâ again after all these yearsâŚ
Late 1980âs and upto early 00âs, it usually meant a very powerful RISC based UNIX desktop machine with a gigantic 21" or bigger CRT, Sun, Digital, Silicon Graphics, IBM, Intergraph, Hewlett Packard and Data General (there were more)⌠Windows NT started making inroads, and various companies started porting applications to Windows NT, e.g. SoftImage and Maya⌠And then a whole bunch of gruntwork got done by Linux âworkstationsâ⌠I worked at a big Oil and Gas corp in the 00âs, about 150 âsuper-beefyâ REL3 or 4 workstations with Dual Opterons, 32 GB of RAM, NVidia Quadro Pro GPUâs (sometimes two) - dual massive (at the time) 23" LCDs (4:3) monitors - when most Windows users were happy with 4 GB of RAM and a single 19" 4:3 monitor⌠And now my smartphone has more gruntâŚ
I guess developers would, could, and perhaps should, consider their workhorse machines as âworkstationsââŚ
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Yes I worked on those risc machines with SunOS and Solaris . We used them as servers too. Did heaps of image analysis on wool samples, trying to setup a system to replace visual inspection of wool at sales.
I went a different way after that. When PCâs got big enough, BSD was available for PCâs before Linux, so I went to FreeBSD in 486 PC with external SCSI disks⌠a case of build your own workstation. I stuck with it into retirement, and only got into Linux in the 2000âs.
So I think the term âworkstationâ is OK, but it is more about what the machine is used for, rather than its design. It sort of means a computer used for work, rather than for entertainment or communication.
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Linux Mint is ideal for day to day operations.
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Hi Steve,
Yes any good stable Linux such as Mint is fine for everyday usage. My choice for that is Debian⌠same family as Mint. The other good stable choices are Ubuntu, OpenSuse, MX
Mint is probably a fair choice for a new user too⌠the other choices for new users would be Ubuntu or MX.
Cheers
Neville
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Indeed MX is an excellent distro and still available for 32 bit old machines , meaning one can even run it on Pentium 4 CPU computers , provided at least 1GB RAM is installed.
Frank in County Wicklow -Ireland
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