What did yall end up settling on?

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[–] 11 points 1 month ago (6 children)

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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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Probably going to get hate for this and reveal my age a bit, but i've been on Ubuntu since 2006 back when they'd actually mail you CDs for free. My desktop's hardware has been a ship of theseus since then, and no dist-upgrade really ever broke things, and I think the last time I did a full OS reinstall was in like ~2011 when I got an SSD that was a smaller side than my old HDD, so I couldn't just clone the drive with dd. Everything works well for what I need it for, and don't need the bleeding edge.

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  • For reasons unknown even to myself, I hoard my old hardware and run it till it won't run anymore. All of my servers are my own old machines, corporate castoffs, and a few that were literally pulled out of a dumpster, so I have a lot of test subjects. I like to experiment with distros and will probably never stop. I like seeing all the cool stuff people make. And driver support has gotten good enough that it's not that painful to switch nowadays. I run through the installer and boot up, and everything more or less works. It's a good time to be a distrohopper.

    For my main rig and "important" servers I generally stick with debian; if I need to fix something I don't want to be learning the guts of a new OS while I'm trying to figure out something else. Everything else is frolics.

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