OpenSuse Tumbleweed for my gaming PC. Fedora KDE for everything else (laptops, mom's desktop).

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

The seventy-tooth

EndeavourOS is home. 💜

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

I was like this before I tried regular Arch. I probably would’ve settled on NixOS if I had tried that first. I feel like Linux Mint could be the end of the line because it just works on a lot of old machines & does so quickly.

I've only ever used Debian my entire life

seventy tooth

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.

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

Ubuntu -> Pop!_OS -> EndeavourOS.

I'm quite happy here :)

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

Distros are tools for a job. I stick with the ones that have the most helpful communities and/or the best documentation. I avoid communities that tell you off for asking help or documentation that is obtuse.

Still successfully troubleshooting stuff through 10 year old Ubuntu forum threads. Meanwhile learning the most through the FreeBSD handbook and it's not even Linux. lol

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.

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

I'm pretty happy on NixOS now...

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.

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.

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

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

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
}

Gentoo will always be there when you want to settle down knowing exactly what you want.

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, then Pop OS, and now still on Mint. It really just works and is still really easy to customize.

I'm thinking of trying Cachy OS though, but I'm not sure

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.

artix has been my goto for older computers, void

in future maybe guix?

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).

No hopping. Debian.

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

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