Linux

I have been on Archlinux since the end of 2008. I've only installed it three times though. So i guess i fit the more than a decade thing

I've been using debian since around 1995 or so. Guess I'm coming up on 30 years of using debian. Heh. I believe it was the pre 1.0 version, on the 1.x kernel line and using the pre-elf binary format. I remember that there wasn't an installer - a friend had gotten it cobbled together, and we installed my 80mb hard drive into his computer and manually copied stuff over until it "worked". I've been using it ever since. I just installed debian bullseye on a new laptop on Friday.

Debian (testing) at least since 2018 and I don't plan to switch. Before that I was hopping a bit between ubuntu based distros and manjaro. On servers I always use debian stable.

Did a lot of distrohoppig in the early days, started with Red hat, Mandrake, Stampede, and Debian. But stuck with Debian from 1999 I would say, until Ubuntu came along and did the switch about 2005. Then stayed with Ubuntu until Unity came, switched to Fedora 2011 and have not found a reason to switch after that.

My longest was when i went 100% Full time on my main machine (no dual boot), I stopped distro-hoppping. I Installed Debian stable when it first came out (Jessie) and stayed with it until it shifted to "old-stable" which was a little bit over 3 years.

A lot of people give Debian stable a hard time but i found it worked well. Most software that i needed to be a little bit newer i could get from the backports repository. It was only at the end of it's lifecycle that i noticed started running in to software being a little to old for what i wanted to do. Then i went back to distro-hopping for a while until i found my next home. :-)

I've been on OpenSUSE for as long as I've been using computers, it's what I grew up on. At least a decade and a half.

I started with SLS around 1993, tracking it into Slackware. From 1996 thereabouts on, I used RedHat mostly and Suse occasionally.

Both of those going more commercial each in their own ways didn't sit too well with me.

In 2004 I found gentoo, and am sticking with it for most everything since.

Only about a year...currently on pop os though (after ubuntu, manjaro, endeavour, debian) and I think I will stick with it for some time as the tiling is great and everything has been working well. Plus they are making their own DE which I'm looking forward to trying.

I switched 2010 from Windows to Linux.

• Ubuntu (2010)
• Linux Mint (2012)
• Arch Linux (2020)

Been on Fedora for about 8 years now. No plans on switching my main PC any time soon although now that Bookworm is released I may switch my home server to Debian.

Workstations:

I've been using Fedora since 2014, so coming up on a decade. Runner up would be Arch for about three years from 2011-2014. Before that it was a blur of distro hopping.

Servers:

Been using a combination of RHEL and CentOS since 2011, so about twelve years. And yes, I'm still using CentOS even though it's no longer a rebuild of RHEL. I actually think it's better now, because bugs can actually be fixed instead of being closed as "reproducible on RHEL".

I've been using Linux Mint (Cinnamon) as my only operating system since 2016. No dual booting.

Gentoo cured me of distrohopping back in 2009. Before my computer died in 2018 I was still running the same install for 9 years. My current Gentoo install is only 3 years and change old, though.

I've been on Gentoo since late 2005, so almost 18 years.

On the desktop side, I used Slackware for about 7 years, then switched to Ubuntu for another 15 years, and recently years used Debian and Tails (after suffering several government-level hacking operations). I basically use Ubuntu for servers, I'm thinking about Debian or OpenBSD.

I only ever run Debian on my servers (around 15 systems) since about 2010, and I run (a modified version of) Ubuntu on my desktops. Although my desktop decision may change pretty soon if they keep pushing Snaps. Although I run ubuntu, I am thankfully Snap-free...

At least one of my primary use boxes has been running Fedora since 2003 (and Red Hat Linux RIP before that, going back to... 1996? since fedora was the successor to Red Hat Linux, I'd say I've got 25 years on "Fedora" at this point). I have rotated a variety of Debian derivatives on other boxes used in parallel, particularly Debian itself. What keeps me coming back to Fedora is its "stable plus really really fresh", consistently, for a long time.

I distro hopped quite a bit before I settled. Now been running Arch coming up a decade. Before my current PC build, my previous continuous install was 6 years old.

I've DE hopped a number of times throughout that time though. Now been using KDE for several years and happy to stay.

• Ubuntu: 2007-2010
• Mint: 2010-2013
• 5 different distros in 2014
• Distrohopped every few months until 2018
• Manjaro: 2018-present

Though I'm currently in the process of learning nixos, as I hear it's a good one.

I used the same Ubuntu install since at least 18.04, possibly back to 16.04 (can't quite remember if I upgraded to 18.04 as a fresh install), up until my upgrade to 22.04 from 20.04 failed. I took that opportunity to try a different distro, which eventually led to my current KDE Neon install.

Ubuntu from 5.04 to 18.04. The memory usage and Gnome redesign got too annoying. I switched to Arch and KDE.

Started with Ubuntu for just a year on desktop and Debian on server for nearly 10 years. Desktop switched in this time from arch to Debian, back to arch, and finally to Fedora. This will never change. Debian - server, Fedora - desktop.

I tested some others in VM: elementary, SuSe, Archcraft, kubuntu, lubuntu, xubuntu, PopOS, manjaro. None of these passed my expectations for a bare metal install.

On phone: mobian, manjaro, postmarket and the winner danctnix-arch. But I want to give postmarket a second chance.

I've been on debian since around the time jessie came out, so 8 years it seems. I don't see myself switching anytime soon.

20+ years on openbsd and debian evenly spread out on different machines, also 5+ years of arch usage.

My main PC has been running Arch without interruptions for about 12 years. I've run Debian on my server for around 15 years now.

It just works. Why change?

Almost there with OpenSUSE, 9 years and counting. A new machine is running Manjaro for 2 years. I don't think I'd spend a decade with Manjaro.