Manjaro ended my distro hopping itch +10 years ago. I occasionally test distros in VM, but nothing has made me want to switch so far.
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I started out on SuSE back in 94 and spent a while checking out rpm-based distros like Mandrake, RedHat, etc. Even stuff like m68k Linux, Slackware and the BSDs. Debian at that time was a pain to use. Used Gentoo for a while until I switched to Mac. After that I used Ubuntu, Mint, Antergos, Manjaro, Arch and Fedora.
And then I started noticing a pattern that I would always get frustrated with whatever I was trying out and go back to Fedora. So now it's been around five years I've stuck with Fedora for my gaming machine and my desktop.
I've been on Ubuntu since I first got their CDs in the mail. Sadly, they're determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, and I'm now moved over completely to NixOS. It's like what they're trying to do with snaps, but competently executed.
Ubuntu from 2010ish - 2015. Fedora ever since, with a short period of playing around with Arch on my laptop in early 2020.
one and a half year with Manjaro Gnome on my desktop.
I've been hopping between Gentoo and Arch for at least a decade and you can't stop me from doing it again >:P
(Currently using Arch on two systems, bytheway :'D Already thinking of hopping back to Gentoo on the desky one. Maybe try Funtoo. Unless there's a Funthree :thinkyface: ;P )
My current one, Fedora, since 36 had just released. I'll probably continue to use it as I wasn't as much of a distro hopper as most people anyway.
Debian for more than 15 years now.
I've only really used Gentoo, Debian and Ubuntu (in that order!), each for years at a time over the past two decades. I suppose it shows how progessively fewer fucks I give about the inner workings of the system.
I also tried to install a copy of... TurboLinux 6, I think? that I got from a Ham Radio swap meet as a kid sometime in the '90s, but I never got it to work.
I've been using Void almost exclusively since ~2019.
@unix_joe I've got one machine that's been on Ubuntu for close to 10 years, and another that's been on arch for almost as long. Thinking about trying Debian's new release to replace Ubuntu.
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Been on Artix Linux for about 3 years. Occasionally there’s a package that breaks, but nothing serious. Been very happy with a minimal environment using Bspwm/sxhkd and the st terminal mainly.
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