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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).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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What is/was your distrohopping journey? (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by VitabytesDev to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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For me it was:

Windows (for many years) -> Ubuntu (for a year) -> Arch Linux (for half a year) -> Void Linux (literally 2 days) -> Artix Linux with runit (a month) -> Gentoo Linux (another month) -> Debian (finally, I don't plan on changing it).

Also, when trying to switch from Gentoo to Debian, I fucked up all my data with no backup.

What was your journey?

EDIT: Added Windows

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[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Various flavors of NOS, BSD, what ever DEC ran, etc in college. Work was more Contral Data and Cray OS's but have been Unix/Linux since the mid 80's. HP-UX, SunOs, Ultrix, and that shitty AIX were some that we used on our workstations. My first linux install was VA-LINUX around 1999 I think. They went belly up and I switched to Redhat. Shortly thereafter, RH changed their license model so I switch to Fedora Core 1. Currently running Fedora 40. Work stuff off runs RHEL, Centos (the old one), AlmaLinux and even Oracle's RH clone. I have had to use windows for work in some capacity since around 2010. But I often spend 95% of my time in a linux VM.