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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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What's the longest you've stayed on a distribution? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I gave openSUSE Tumbleweed an honest try. Even put the sticker on my daily laptop. But it was annoying enough at just the most inconvenient times to get work done. Things like codec repos not being in sync, or the times that my wifi stopped working after an update (turned out to be a problem with KDEWallet).

When Debian bookworm updated to the latest KDE Plasma, I decided to go there and stay, because it was KDE that I was after, not the rolling release or anything tumbleweed specific. So now I am locked in to a stable system for the next two years, and the flatpaks let me have newer Firefox and Thunderbirds.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Tumbleweed is still the best rolling release distro I have tried, but Debian 12 is a temptation almost too good to pass up on. I have been using more and more flatpaks anyways (gotta prepare myself for eventually switching to some immutable distro - I think they need a bit more time to be ready)