Ask HN: Which linux distribution are you using?

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Xubuntu, with awesome for the window manager.
Ubuntu, Gentoo, BackTrack
Ubuntu LTS (so currently 12.04)
None, I was using Ubuntu until recently.
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.

On my desktop, Debian unstable with XFCE.
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.
Debian testing with LXDE
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.

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.
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.
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.

Ubuntu 12.10 and Fedora (16 I think).
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.
Lubuntu 12.10. I have plenty of horsepower for other stuff, but I just don't need it.
Slackware 14 64bit. Returning to slack after a hiatus of about 6 years