What did yall end up settling on?
Am I the only one here that uses their computer instead of fucking with it?
Most kids these days use em to fuck, I hear
Don’t call me kid, mister.
When I was a kid I just fucked with it and had a great time, now I’m too old for that
I mean… uh… no comment.
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Yes
Ubuntu -> Mint.
Mint works for me. So, I use Mint.
I suppose it’s partly because I’m old and have built something like nine PCs for myself over the years, and the novelty of all that wore off long ago. I just want something that works.
I’m a big fan of boring, tbh. It works. What more could I need.
I like to do both.
I used to distros hop a bunch, not so much anymore.
Not really much point for me these days, arch based distros are so well documented that I can change basically anything I want without reinstalling the os, and Debian is similar for my homelab servers.
I settled years ago on a setup I like, but until that point I bounced around like a rubber ball. That said, my current setup is built on Ubuntu and I think it’s about time to switch to Debian to get rid of the corporate bullshit.
Yeah I’m a mint guy and I might switch to lmde, but not anytime soon
Aren’t mint users supposed to reinstall when it’s time for a major version update, anyway?
Last time I think it updated through the update manager. Might have reinstalled itself in that process.
I don’t think that’s how that works Ü
I think one of the whole reasons the mint team stick with Ubuntu is it grants them the ability to use the kernel manager which makes these things more seamless.
Sure, but that’s not what “reinstalling the OS” means in general use. I’m talking specifically about the kind of reinstall that overwrites everything on your root partition, and doing that for major updates seems to be a fairly common recommendation for certain kinds of distros; MX Linux says to do it like that, too.
Yes
The seventy-tooth
I can’t tell whether this is hilarious or I’m exhausted, because I’m crying from laughter
OpenSuse Tumbleweed for my gaming PC. Fedora KDE for everything else (laptops, mom’s desktop).
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
Haha, I feel that switch to LTS only releases. I was upgrading to every release in the beginning as well but it started to get old real fast. I run Mint nowdays. In the early days I loved testing new distros and tweaking around with my system, but after over a decade working in tech the last thing I want to do in my free time is have to fix my own computer.
Hell yeah! I was using Ubuntu 10-14 in college and now back on the train with 24, 25 and 26. Everything just works every time and all the professional apps I need are first class citizens and well supported.
Ubuntu Server, FreeBSD and OpenBSD are my server distros of choice as well. FreeBSD for a NAS. Gotta pick the right tools for the job!
EndeavourOS is home. 💜
Arch. Would love to find something better but I can’t.
same. not having those big version updates and having control over everything i want from the start just feels so good
and how incredible stable it is
Ubuntu -> Debian -> Linux Mint -> Fedora -> Arch -> Manjaro -> EndeavourOS -> SuSE Linux -> NixOS
I’m pretty happy on NixOS now…
I’m close to you, skipped a few intermediate steps though. Ubuntu -> Mint -> Manjaro -> CachyOS
Fedora ended that for me. It has mostly what I want and is just kinda comfy to use.
Same. But I went atomic, bluefin.
For a stable every day driver? It’s gonna take a lot to get me to switch away.
Still Debian for my proxmox VMs though
I was like this before I tried regular Arch. I probably would’ve settled on NixOS if I had tried that first. I feel like Linux Mint could be the end of the line because it just works on a lot of old machines & does so quickly.
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 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
Same with endeavour lol. VM test drives before “buying” ol’ reliable is the way to go ;)
Although I do use SteamOS on my deck, if that counts as a hop.
A side hop if anything :3 I wouldn’t count secondary devices as distro hopping, especially something like the steamdeck, but I suppose someone might
Speaking of steamdecks tho, I’ve thought about picking one up. I just wish I travelled more to actually be able to justify the price lol. It’s a cool piece of kit
Half my time on my deck is at home tbf. I use it for gaming from the couch/bed mostly and streaming my heavier games from my desktop. Quite nice that way imo!
Ubuntu -> Pop!_OS -> EndeavourOS.
I’m quite happy here :)
I’ve only ever used Debian my entire life
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.
Debian for the 72fth time.
