What did yall end up settling on?
Am I the only one here that uses their computer instead of fucking with it?
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The seventy-tooth
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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
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Ubuntu -> Debian -> Linux Mint -> Fedora -> Arch -> Manjaro -> EndeavourOS -> SuSE Linux -> NixOS
I'm pretty happy on NixOS now...
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Debian for the 72fth time.
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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.
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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)
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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
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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).
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Arch. Would love to find something better but I can't.
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No hopping. Debian.
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.
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Fedora ended that for me. It has mostly what I want and is just kinda comfy to use.
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Redhat > fedora > Debian > Ubuntu > mint > fedora. Been there for years now.
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.
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.
Fedora - arch - nixos - arch - Debian - arch - debian
EndeavourOS is home. π
I went from Windows to Mint and have been using that for almost a year now. Havenβt run into any issues that would make me want to switch: it does what I want it to now.
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I tend to use macOS on the desktop (I know, booo) so Iβve 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.
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No one?? Really?
72nd* time!
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Started with Arch, landed on Artix βΊοΈ
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I've tried hundreds, I have a laptop I just use for bare metal distrohopping.. but I've just hit 6 months using NixOS on all my PCs and laptops. I strongly recommend everyone give it a go.
Started with deb based distro, swicht later too arch based, now still on cachyOs
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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
}
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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.
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Ubuntu -> Pop!_OS -> EndeavourOS.
I'm quite happy here :)
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.
*72nd
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And tomorrow will be the seventy-thirth distro.
started in 99.
red hat, slackware, debian, ubuntu, arch, manjaro, nix, cachyos
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.
Install gentoo
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