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?

  • KelsonV@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 years ago

    My main desktop has been upgraded continuously from RHL5 (no E) in ~1999 to Fedora 38 today.

    Well, almost continuously. I’ve done at least one fresh install, when I switched from 32-bit to 64-bit hardware.

    Edit: I have used a lot of other distros on other boxes, both physical and virtual - I’ve just stuck with Fedora on that one.

  • s_s@lemmy.one
    3·
    2 years ago

    My one desktop is 5 years on Manjaro now.

    But I’ve had a freeBSD file server for at least 20.

    • michael@kbin.social
      3·
      2 years ago

      Yes, I was a distro hopper up until I tried Tumbleweed for the first time. Been using it for two years now, hopped around for a year prior.

    • Jure Repinc@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 years ago

      Couldn’t agree more. Probably because they have some automatic QA going on on their CI and if some package does something wrong that this QA catches the package does not get included into update until it passes. Also if there would be something that would go wrong you still have automatic BTRFS snapshots created before and after and update and a boot entry automatically added to GRUB so you could simply reboot into old working state in such an unfortunate case.

  • Uno@monyet.cc
    2·
    2 years ago

    I’ve been on Ubuntu ever since I switched to Linux 7 months ago, tbh I don’t understand distro-hopping. I’m not any tech wizard, and Ubuntu fulfills all my criteria: worked out of the box, worked faster than Windows, hasn’t broken yet 👍

    All I do is run Firefox and Steam on my laptop anyways :/

  • tsl@lemmy.sdf.org
    2·
    2 years ago

    I’ve settled on Ubuntu in 2008, but jumped between Gnome, KDE, Unity and LXDE. Then I got a Steam Deck last year and it became my main machine, so now I am not only with its Arch based OS, but I a secondary Arch SD card that I occasionally boot, if I need something not immediately available in SteamOS.

    Servers? Debian Since 2019.

  • Justaregulardude2001@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    2 years ago

    I’ve been on Fedora Linux for almost a year now. Considering that I started using Linux when the pandemic started, you can figure out that it’s my distro of choice now. Also, I like that Fedora is, for the most part, quite developer friendly and had great packages and software installed when I first started using it.

  • pascal@lemm.ee
    2·
    2 years ago

    I distro hopped a lot since installing a retail red hat box bought at the store in 199something.

    It’s now more than 10 years that I basically only run Debian (on all my servers) and Gentoo/funtoo (on my workstations). For my partner and relatives, I install only Mint because it lacks all the cool gadgets, but it’s stable as a rock, especially on notebooks, and still reminds them of Windows.

    I tried Arch, btw. Nice wiki, horrible package management.

    I tried Pop_OS, it’s fun, it’s fine, it’s fresh, but tends to self-destruct if I push it too much.

    I loved Elementary OS, it’s really promising but always gave me the feeling to run a beta OS.

  • Nerdfest@kbin.social
    2·
    2 years ago

    Been using Ubuntu, or more recently, Kubuntu since 2006. Not sure that counts as a distro change. Can’t say enough good things about KDE these days though.

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

      I remember trying and liking the last KDE with 3.5x around that time. There was a .deb to install the Kickoff menu from openSUSE. Solid, ruined by the 4.0 transition. Good times.

  • Romdeau4@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    I’ve been on Fedora for about 7 years. My server flips between Ubuntu and CentOS every couple of years.

  • JetpackJackson@lemmy.ml
    1·
    2 years ago

    I’ve been staying with Arch for a while now, maybe a few months. Might switch to NixOS in the future but right now I’m happy. I used Fedora, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, etc before that.