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The seventy-tooth

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

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

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

I'm pretty happy on NixOS now...

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

Debian for the 72fth time.

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.

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 > 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

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).

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.

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

No hopping. Debian.

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

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.

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

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.

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
}

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

Ubuntu -> Pop!_OS -> EndeavourOS.

I'm quite happy here :)

Started with Arch, landed on Artix ☺️

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

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.

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.

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.

I tend to use macOS on the desktop (I know, booo) so I’ve landed on Alpine Linux for just about everything else.

I love that you can be on the bleeding edge but also not have tons of baggage everywhere. The downside is of course a lot of times I find myself doing things from scratch.

No one?? Really?

72nd* time!

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.

EndeavourOS is home. 💜