Am I the only one here that uses their computer instead of fucking with it?
Most kids these days use em to fuck, I hear
Don't call me kid, mister.
When I was a kid I just fucked with it and had a great time, now I'm too old for that
I mean... uh... no comment.
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Yes
I like to do both.
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.
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.
A side hop if anything :3 I wouldn't count secondary devices as distro hopping, especially something like the steamdeck, but I suppose someone might
Speaking of steamdecks tho, I've thought about picking one up. I just wish I travelled more to actually be able to justify the price lol. It's a cool piece of kit
Half my time on my deck is at home tbf. I use it for gaming from the couch/bed mostly and streaming my heavier games from my desktop. Quite nice that way imo!
Ubuntu -> Debian -> Linux Mint -> Fedora -> Arch -> Manjaro -> EndeavourOS -> SuSE Linux -> NixOS
I'm pretty happy on NixOS now...
Debian for the 72fth time.
Ubuntu 7.04 -> 7.10 -> 8.04 -> 8.10 -> 9.04 -> 9.10 -> 10.04 -> 12.04 -> 14.04 -> 16.04 -> 18.04 -> 20.04 -> 22.04 -> 24.04 -> Fedora J/K Ubuntu 26.04
I like how sh.itjust.works
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.
You might find Void too barebones but it's nice like that. When you finish void-installer for the first time, you get a system with 144 packages only.
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 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)
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
every now and again, I feel the urge to try another distro. I can't help it, it's in my DNA
Exactly! Whyvis everyone on hannah montana linux now? I must know
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
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).
I'm a gamer who recently switched to Cachy and honnestly it is by far my favourite yet. It runs so smoothly without feeling bloated and it's perfect for someone like me who feels too noob to try pure Arch.
No hopping. Debian.
Linux mint and often LMDE.
is funny, I always end up back at mint.
It just good, it just works yet let's me customize.
CachyOS. Everytime I stray away from Arch, it always finds a way to pull me back in.
At least we can distro-hop. Different needs, different preferences, and we can choose what works best for us. Heck, you can even go hardcore with Yocto and create your own distro!
Compare that to the poor sods on the Apple and Windows side of the fence. They have to cope with whatever some bigwig thought was best for them. A mediocre one size fits all solution, stuffed to the brim with whatever they fancy. Including ads, malware, and AI everywhere.
Redhat > fedora > Debian > Ubuntu > mint > fedora. Been there for years now.
Fedora - arch - nixos - arch - Debian - arch - debian
I have this handy little bash function, I think you should use it.
get-english-ordinal-ending() {
case "$1" in
*11 | *12 | *13) printf 'th' ;;
*1) printf 'st' ;;
*2) printf 'nd' ;;
*3) printf 'rd' ;;
*) printf 'th' ;;
esac
}
Fedora ended that for me. It has mostly what I want and is just kinda comfy to use.
EndeavourOS is home. 💜
I tend to use macOS on the desktop (I know, booo) so I’ve landed on Alpine Linux for just about everything else.
I love that you can be on the bleeding edge but also not have tons of baggage everywhere. The downside is of course a lot of times I find myself doing things from scratch.
Ubuntu -> Pop!_OS -> EndeavourOS.
I'm quite happy here :)
I went from Windows to Mint and have been using that for almost a year now. Haven’t run into any issues that would make me want to switch: it does what I want it to now.
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.
Started with deb based distro, swicht later too arch based, now still on cachyOs
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.
And tomorrow will be the seventy-thirth distro.
In 3 years:
Mint > OpenSUSE Tumbleweed > Fedora
Very happy with Fedora right now. If I ever had to switch again, maybe CachyOS. But not worth wiping and reconfiguring everything just for that. If RedHat pulls a Canonical though, definitely.
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