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What is/was your distrohopping journey? (feddit.nl)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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For me it was:

Windows (for many years) -> Ubuntu (for a year) -> Arch Linux (for half a year) -> Void Linux (literally 2 days) -> Artix Linux with runit (a month) -> Gentoo Linux (another month) -> Debian (finally, I don't plan on changing it).

Also, when trying to switch from Gentoo to Debian, I fucked up all my data with no backup.

What was your journey?

EDIT: Added Windows

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[–] 6 points 2 years ago (5 children)

  • In the 90's: Slackware, then RedHat, then Debian, then Progeny (Debian based), then shortly Mandrake (RedHat based)

  • Early 2000's: RedHat Japanese edition, TurboLinux (because I was in Japan and Japanese IME was almost impossible to get working on non-Japanese distributions)

  • Then I had fun with Gentoo looking at my terminal compiling stuff everyday and fixing broken package because I followed advices to activate crazy compilation flags

  • 2004: Ubuntu, that I used for nearly 20 years

  • Last year: switched to Fedora

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    What happened last year?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Nothing in particular, for the past few years I didn't like the direction Ubuntu was taking but I stayed because I was too lazy to switch and it didn't feel that bad.

    So I'm not sure exactly what was the last straw, maybe part of it was me getting a Steam Deck, discovering flatpak and understanding how bad snap was compared to it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I just realized that I used Ubuntu for 20 years. I might be interested in switching to Fedora. How ist your experience so far?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    It just works, just like Ubuntu before they started pushing snap down everyone's throat (which is what made me switch eventually.)

    I had a bad image of RedHat/Fedora's package management from the time deb was much superior, but no they caught up and are on the same level (I know, it's probably been a while).

    I also like how they mostly package upstream without too many changes. When Ubuntu started upstream was a bit lacking so making changes was necessary to get something that looks like a consistent OS rather than a patchwork of packages, but now it's no longer needed. Ubuntu is no longer the only distribution with that level of polish.

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