Ask HN: What Linux distro do you use for work, and why?

On my work desktop and home laptop: Ubuntu. I just like Unity and I have got used to it now.

On our servers, we use CentOS though, so consequently, I keep a bunch of CentOS virtual machines for testing too. I think CentOS was chosen for our live servers because of it's stability.

These days I mainly use Ubuntu. Love the package manager. Also, Ubuntu works well for openstack dev. Exploring FreeBSD since I want kqueue.

Technically I (have to) use Windows for work but for real 'work' I use Arch and push to an Ubuntu server if it needs to.

Ubuntu 12.04 with GNOME. For a couple of years I ran it with Unity out of the box, but then one day it crashed so badly I could not use the system at all, then I switched to GNOME and never turned back since then. Of course, you have to stop by gnome extensions website and tweak your UI a bit to smooth the rough edges found in default mode.

Ubuntu 13.10 with Mate desktop. The only solution I could find to use three screens on two nVidia GPUs with the propietary drivers.