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Am I the only one here that uses their computer instead of fucking with it?

The seventy-tooth

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

Debian for the 72fth time.

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)

Ubuntu -> Debian -> Linux Mint -> Fedora -> Arch -> Manjaro -> EndeavourOS -> SuSE Linux -> NixOS

I'm pretty happy on NixOS now...

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.

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).

Fedora ended that for me. It has mostly what I want and is just kinda comfy to use.

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.

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

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.

No hopping. Debian.

Redhat > fedora > Debian > Ubuntu > mint > fedora. Been there for years now.

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
}

Arch. Would love to find something better but I can't.

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.

Started with deb based distro, swicht later too arch based, now still on cachyOs

Fedora - arch - nixos - arch - Debian - arch - debian

No one?? Really?

72nd* time!

CachyOS. Everytime I stray away from Arch, it always finds a way to pull me back in.

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.

started in 99.

red hat, slackware, debian, ubuntu, arch, manjaro, nix, cachyos

EndeavourOS is home. 💜

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.

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.

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.

Used Manjaro for a while, gave EndeavourOS a try and have been happy there for a few years now. Before that it was Ubuntu, Mint and Debian. Also had OpenBSD on my servers for many years.