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Debian for the 72fth time.
Ubuntu -> Debian -> Linux Mint -> Fedora -> Arch -> Manjaro -> EndeavourOS -> SuSE Linux -> NixOS
I'm pretty happy on NixOS now...
No hopping. Debian.
*72nd
Seventyseconth is a perfectly cromulent number.
Am I the only one here that uses their computer instead of fucking with it?
I used to distros hop a bunch, not so much anymore.
Not really much point for me these days, arch based distros are so well documented that I can change basically anything I want without reinstalling the os, and Debian is similar for my homelab servers.
Yes
I like to do both.
Most kids these days use em to fuck, I hear
I mean... uh... no comment.
Found ninajirachi's alt account
When I was a kid I just fucked with it and had a great time, now I'm too old for that
Sls-> redhat -> debian (potato) around year 2000 ish. Been running debian since.
Have you moved the same install around and upgraded along the way? If not, how often do you decide to reinstall fresh?
I used to go fresh every 12 months or so on Windows. Only recently started to use Linux as a desktop so wondering what others do.
Desktop: Mint -> Ubuntu -> Debian -> Manjaro -> Ubuntu - > Fedora
Server: Debian -> CentOS -> Rocky
At least use Alma. Rocky is toxic to the ecosystem while Alma contributes to the ecosystem.
Why settle? Software is a continually evolving ecosystem and grafting yourself to a certain distribution model or distribution team doesn't really make sense when you consider that. Some distribution might have the best things for you, today. Tomorrow, another may come along and do it better, or your current distribution may shift to not be to your liking anymore. Be flexible, but don't change for the sake of change. Change for a good reason.
Ubuntu -> Mint -> Arch -> NixOS
Ubuntu really drove me away for some time. Only when I got to Mint, I felt that Linux could be a daily driver. Arch made me strangely reinstall it every few days. Not by not working but by having the feeling of dirtying the machine on use.
NixOS is really what I want to use the rest of my life. Very complicated on first use but definitly worth it (for me).
Redhat > fedora > Debian > Ubuntu > mint > fedora. Been there for years now.
TL;DR: LMDE. It works for me.
I've not hopped much, and from at least one viewpoint I've not hopped at all.
If you want to count distros I've used, some even at home, however briefly, then I tried Red Hat and SUSE (actually bought a copy!) way back in the '90s, Ubuntu, CentOS and... you know I don't actually know what a few of the GUI-less ones were, at work from the '90s onwards.
I even tried PC-BSD for a very brief moment before conflicts with an unusual hardware setup sent me scurrying back to Windows.
But since I quit Microsoft Windows for good at home, I've been nothing but Mint. I switched to LMDE after using the original for a while, but I can see arguments each way for whether that's a hop or not.
Frankly, it will take something drastic to make me want to hop to something else.
I bought a secondhand Steam Deck and was convinced by using it docked with kbm that Linux is ready to be my one and only.
From there, my 2015 laptop moved from Windows 10 to PopOS -> Cinnamon Mint -> CachyOS -> Cinnamon Mint. I plan to build a desktop sometime between now and the release of PlayStation 6, and I'll probably go with CachyOS for that. I would just buy a Steam Machine, but I can't justify the price vs performance when I don't really care about console comforts like CEC. I'd rather pay the cost of the higher Steam Machine to get PS6 level performance.
My wife moved her laptop from Windows 10 to Cinnamon Mint. She has to have a Windows partition for proctored exam spyware for online classes, but she's now only using Windows for that one thing. She's much more comfortable with Mint.
It's a journey and I tested a lot of distros but these are the ones I actually used in 20 years:
Pardus >> Ubuntu >> Crunchbang >> Bunsenlabs >> Manjaro >> EndeavourOS >> Void
I also used MeeGo on my netbook when its prime time. Crunchbang will always have a special place for me. The OG Pardus was fun too.
I started on pop!_os and now 6 years later im on... pop!_os
Yeah, I didn't really do any distro hopping :p. Though I've tried a bunch of distros in VMs
Same with endeavour lol. VM test drives before “buying” ol’ reliable is the way to go ;)
Although I do use SteamOS on my deck, if that counts as a hop.
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Mint > Ubuntu > Lubuntu > Arch (desktop) / Debian (server)
I switched away from Canonical the first time I saw an ad when running apt update & apt upgrade, fuck them forever.
I'm sticking to Arch because its easier to install something myself than to rip apart something prepackaged.
I'm curious about trying Void.
That's exactly what I ended up with, Arch on my gaming laptop, Debian on the server.
It is weird not having a desktop computer, but the laptop plays all the games and the server does all the rest.
I used Void for a bit. I wouldn't recommend using on your main system unless you really hate systemd for some reason. Try adding the CachyOS kernel and repos on your Arch system. It will be like having a newer better Arch. No reinstall required.
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I started with like, nothing, linux 0.99 on 8 floppies and X11 on like 12 floppies... then some kind of LFS, then Debian, then Ubuntu, then Mint, then MX with Xfce (since almost 10 years)
Can't tell if joking or old or both...?
Old coot here
Open SUSE tumbleweed, KDE plasma.
The update/revert stuff isolated to the os partition is sooooo good. If I hop again it's going to be to another one with similar functionality.
Snapper is available on most distros, I have it installed on endeavour, and I've installed it on gentoo
Sweet.
Today I'm using Chimera, but KaOS, Arix or perhaps some unholy install of Alpine with DINIT are tempting me. Seems a persistent kernel panic on wake from sleep has been fixed, so I'm not super tempted to hop ATM.
ubuntu > fedora > manjaro > endeavor > arch > fedora > arch > nixos.
started in 2015 with ubuntu, started distrohopping in 2019 when i upgraded from laptop to desktop, but ended with nixos 3 years ago
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Fedora - arch - nixos - arch - Debian - arch - debian
After all the distribution hopping stuff. I settled with Debian Sid. Feels like home
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Ubuntu -> SteamOS (Steam Deck as PC convinced me to change my main PC) -> Endeavour OS -> Mint -> Kubuntu -> Zorin OS -> OpenSUSE (first one that stuck longterm) -> CachyOS (PC permanently now) + Debian (home server) + Bazzite (lounge console)
Do people actually do this serial distro hopping? When such a meme is posted even now most people say they switched only a few times at most
I just really like exploring. I do also enjoy the feel of a fresh clean install. Getting to set things up again without all the cruft of gradual config tweaks.
every now and again, I feel the urge to try another distro. I can't help it, it's in my DNA
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Early on I went from mandrake to gentoo, been on gentoo forever but decided as I was building my docker swarm that I wanted to go easy so I went with Ubuntu server on my 2 additional nodes, and then for my wife’s machine I went Linux mint. When windows is no longer needed for anything I think I will probably do gentoo on my primary machine. The programmer in me likes seeing compiles
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