Linux

Linux Mint, 7 years. If it ain't broke....

• 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 Linux Mint for about a decade on all my desktops and laptops. When I upgraded my gaming desktop to version 21, I started having some strange visual issues which I spent a lot of time troubleshooting unsuccessfully. I took that opportunity to try something new. I started with Nobara, a gaming-focused distro based on Fedora, and enjoyed the experience. I then started to embrace upstream distributions, so I replaced Nobara with Fedora and my remaining Linux Mint systems with Debian. Had I not encountered the strange issue with Linux Mint 21 on my gaming desktop, I'd probably still be using it exclusively today.

My Nix repo starts in 2015. But by the looks of it I only started using it for my desktop in 2020. So I guess 8 years for my servers and 3 years for my desktops.

Before that I used Arch for quite a long time on desktop, probably about 5 years.

Since roughly a decade I use Arch Linux with i3/sway for all my daily computing.

Been on Arch for the past 15 years or so. Distro hopped a lot before that

I hopped on Manjaro back before people started flaming it to kingdom come. I'm still using it 4 years later and still loving it 😊 I play with other distros on another computer for funsies, but my home rig stays the same

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?

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

For servers I’ve been using Ubuntu Server since ~2016. For my desktop I used Ubuntu up to 2019 when I switched to Arch.

Fedora 30 to 38. Whatever that amounts. Staying on Arch indefinitely.

Ubuntu from 2006 right up until they replaced the firefox deb with a mandatory snap, whenever that was. Then I was on Pop OS for about 6 months, and now Fedora, which I don't see myself leaving anytime soon.

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.

I have been 11 years on Fedora.

Before 2009 I was getting used to Linux with Ubuntu. By 2009 I switched to Fedora. Since 2020 I'm on Manjaro. Inbetween I payed many other distros a visit such as Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian and Puppy.

On servers I am for no specific reason on Debian and Ubuntu.

I think probably Ubuntu, that was my first daily driver Linux, and I didn't really change it much because I was still learning how Linux worked and didn't want to mess with things too much. I was probably on that for close to 10 years. Then I eventually tried Manjaro which didn't last for too long and then I went full Arch BTW. So Arch will probably end up being the longest running one eventually because I really have no desire to change over to anything else now.

Been on Manjaro for about 4 years for my gaming PC but been running a Debian flavor for servers since Woody.

I stayed on Ubuntu on my main computers for 14 years from 2007 to 2021. Ran into some dependency problems and switched to Fedora on my main device, it has been working as a charm.

Mandrake/Mandriva 2002 - 2006

Xubuntu 2006 - 2007

Debian 2007 - 2015

Ubuntu 2016 - present

So I was with Debian the longest so far.

I'm on Debian since 2012 and before that it was Ubuntu from 2008 to 2012

On servers I've stuck with Ubuntu LTS's since 2017. They've always been rock solid, even if the 2-4 year upgrade can be time consuming, it's not often enough for me to try something else. The support and documentation is excellent. I find it hard to think of a single reason to even try something else.

On the desktop I probably have spent most time on Ubuntu, or Ubuntu derivative like Kubuntu, but I now use EndeavourOS and I have no plans to switch or hop or try anything else. So I'll likely end up on Endeavour far longer.

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 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

Using Arch on various AMD64 systems since 2016, and I am not planning to change that.

On my Raspberry Pi I tried Arch Linux ARM but thanks to various small problems I distro-hopped to Raspberry Pi OS.

I've stayed on Endeavour with XFCE for a good while now. It just works and is out of my hair. I use it on any system I want Linux on now and I've stopped hopping.

Probably ubuntu from 05-16. Switched to arch around then, and been on manjaro since 2020.

Honestly, about 4 months, and it was Arch. I've been using Linux for over a year now. Currently I'm on NixOS trying to make things work the way I want them to, but there's still some minor issues that are difficult to deal with.

I've just picked Fedora 33 and never had any urge to distro-hopp. Now Im on F38 and Im still happy. Maybe in some day I will transition to Silverblue

I only just started using linux on my laptop like a year and a half ago, I hoped around at first but then around a year ago landes on Fedora with KDE, and haven't used anything else (besides SteamOS) sense

Linux Mint for 6 or 7 years.

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

The most I’ve ever made is 6 months. Redhat seems a lot less fragile so we’ll see.