This is kind of the anti-distro hopping thread. How long have you stayed on a single Linux distribution for your main PC? What about servers?

I’ve been on Debian on and off since 2021, but finally committed to the platform since April of this year.

Before that I was on OpenBSD from 2011 - 2021 for my desktop.

Prior to that, FreeBSD for many years, followed by a few years of distro-hopping various Linux distros (Slackware, Arch, Fedora, simplyMEPIS, and ZenWalk from memory).

How long have you been on your distribution? Do we have anybody here who has been on their current distro for more than a decade?

  • calzone_gigante_da_alfandega@lemmy.pt
    2·
    2 years ago

    2008->2012 : Ubuntu, loved it until Unity and the bloatware started

    2013->2014 : Arch, as a learning experience, left because kde stuff broke all the time and i really liked the new plasma5

    2014->2019 : Opensuse Tumbleweed, loved how they handled packages, the default configs, and how well KDE ran on them, i switched to it mainly because it was at the time the best distro for plasma5, hated btrfs because it kept taking a lot of disk space for it’s snapshots.

    2019->2023(today) : PopOS, loved how they implemented tiling, and being on a debian based distro is very convenient, don’t realy like the outdated repos, and started to like gnome more.

    On servers i never left Ubuntu, and have only a couple of projects on CentOS.

    • unix_joe@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      I kind of wish Pop!_OS would just dump the Ubuntu repos already and rebase on Sid.

      It really is a good windowing environment.

      The delta between stock Debian and whatever Ubuntu is doing on top and then having to remove the Snap bits can’t be more work than just rebasing on Sid.