my distro hopping has been
>centos
>archlinux
>debian
>nixos
>fedora silverblue
>opensuse tw
I have a spare ssd
now what distro should I install?
also, what's anon's distro hopping history?
my distro hopping has been. >centos. >archlinux. >debian. >nixos. >fedora silverblue. >opensuse tw
You already tried out everything worth checking out. There are a total of four distributions worth using if you take into account documentation, support, package manager library size, and community size.
>ARCH
>FEDORA
>OPENSUSE
>DEBIAN
If you tried all three, decide which one you like the most and stick to it. Simple as. It's all downhill if you use anything else.
what about freebsd?
FreeBSD is not a linux distro, it's a BSD distro
>I'm not autist, I'm turbo autist
retard
ahem. GNU/BSD distro
>picrel
wow you're a smart one
Why did you hop away? What have you disliked about those distro?
Move on to Gentoo then, switching between almost identical distros is kinda pointless, at least learn something new
Linux Mint + Distrobox and never hop again.
Stay on Opensuse. Thank me in 5 years when you realize it's the best distro (for you) and always has been.
Like a female I jumped from distro to distro on a whim but in the end I settled for Ubuntu because it just werks.
hop history
>ubuntu 16
>xubuntu 18
>debian 11
>fedora 47
>mint
>mint debian edition
i found home tbh
Manjaro -> Artix -> Fedora -> Void -> Guix
my distro hop has been
>manjaro
>arch
>endeavour
>opensuse
>fedora
>artix
>lmde
and i can comfortably say arch based distros are my home. you can try *BSD too. maybe even solaris.
>caldera
>redhat
>mandrake
>knoppix
>ubuntu
>suse
>slackware
>manjaro
>artix
>endeavor
>arch
>gentoo
Blah blah blah
my distrohopping history from 2004 to 2009 is too long to post here, but it stopped when I simply settled on Ubuntu.
Maybe install Gentoo for coompiling. Or a Slackware hobby setup for practical minimalism. Or HaikuOS or a BSD for non-Linux funs.
For me, distros that I committed to on hardware:
>Ubuntu from a Free CD after ditching Windows Vista
>Debian for a couple years
>Arch for around a decade
>Void for half a year
>NixOS for a few years, current
Tried dozens in virtual machines though. Especially in the 10's. Golden age of distrohopping and watching sneekylinux wax on about Puppy Linux.
What issues have you had with nixos that you've learned to live with?
Why did you leave nixos?
Curious as I'm using it for some server configs now, might have some good desktop usage for it.
>Why did you leave nixos
kernel too old for new hardware
and I didn't bother setting up in nixos so switched to silverblue
>some dev environments are a pain to set up
>some pkgs lag behind in updates
>some pkg implementations are convoluted because they were originally built around FHS etc.
>convoluted tooling
The pros outweigh the cons though.
distro hopping is a waste. just use arch and work around any issues you have with it
>just use arch and work around any issues you have with it
just use macOS and don't have any issues at all
>mandrake
>xandros
>ubuntu
>debian
>mac os
>ubuntu
>debian
>windows
>debian
>fedora
>debian
Just use debian 12 KDE with wayland if you have an AMD card.
I switched from windows 10 and compared to it, It's really smooth and snappy and web pages load faster, even youtube and odysee.
Debian 12 isn't beginner friendly though like mint or MX linux, you have to edit /etc/apt/sources.list to add contrib and also you have to manually compile some things like corectrl.
You also have to follow this https://wiki.debian.org/Steam guide to get steam running but it's really easy.
Once you use debian you get the best distro with the best package manager. Stable, reliable, and fast with no unneeded updates.
I need a unique but practical distro for everyday use
What do anon recommend?
>still no anwser
Void
It's either unique or practical, you can't have both.
microOS
Teenage years
>ubuntu
>fedora
>xubuntu
>arch
>crunchbang
>xubuntu
Returning to linux 10 years later because of w11
>debian
>arch
>tumbleweed
i'm curious about salix, and void linux
will probably install one of those on my laptop, but tumbleweed is home
my best advice is
nobodygivesafuck Linux
I use pop because it combines the stability of Ubuntu's LTS releases with much newer kernel and mesa packages. Newer mesa makes a huge difference in gaymes
I would use pop but I had issues with their desktop.
Flickering in MPV and when I enable click to maximize/minimize it would glitch out and the window would flicker. Doesn't happen on KDE though.
For my primary desktop:
>ubuntu
>arch
>(back to winblows for awhile)
>ubuntu
I regret not just installing Debian the latest round
Ubuntu
Whatever I do end always end up on Fedora at the end of the day. I don't want to use an Intelshit OS, but no matter how many times I try out Debian, Tumbleweed or Arch and so on. I inevitably just end up switching back to Fedora since everything just werks effortlessly .
Sucks that they are killing X11 support. Not sure what I'm gonna do then, unless there's an easy way to hack it.
You cant even play tf2 with sound on fedora without making some dumb SELinux tweak, and codecs are more of a pain than on arch and suse. im surprised you havent run into any issues
*Intelshit OS
IBMshit OS
I don't really play games on Linux since I dual boot Windows for Photoshop and some work stuff.
Haven't noticed many codec issues, but I'm probably just stupid.
Youre not stupid, you use linux. I just love suse and wanted to love fedora but kept running into issues
I'm kind of the opposite. I really want to love Suse and I always try it out like once or twice a year, but inevitably I end up running into some issue and run back to Fedora. Most of it is just laziness however.
That said I am really looking forward to trying Slowroll when it's matured a bit. Seems like the perfect balance.
do you use zypper update or zypper dup?
https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Upgrade_Tumbleweed
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 7
Windows 8
Windows 7
Windows 8.1
Windows 10
Windows 11
I'm too lazy to be acoustic
stop using distrofagging as excuse to procrastinate and not learning to program instead
fine
which distro for not procrastinating tho?
the one which you're on at the present time
I'm on windows 11
Kubuntu to start with imo
Install visual studio code and start cookin
Debian. It's so boring there's nothing to do outside of actual work.
Xubuntu -> Debian -> Mint -> Arch -> Windows 10 LTSC.
>noooo you can't just be satisfied with 2-3 versions of windows to choose from
It has got to be some kind of mental disorder to be distro hopping like that. What makes the average troonix user do this?
It's fun to try out new things?
Used Arch for a month until I ran into an issue with the installation of an nvidia driver update. I went back to debian but both are great distros.
>I'm so productive on troonix guys it's u real
>I can't be productive today, I've got to distrooooooom
fedora is corpo linux and debian is community linux. everything else is memes
laptop is mint > gentoo > arch
desktop has basically always been arch, think I tried a few others but very briefly.
and home server is debian
oh and install gentoo, try something different
>mint
>arch
>gentoo
I tried a lot of distros to see what they are about but my hopping history is pretty straight forward (thank god)
>also, what's anon's distro hopping history?
Windows -> Nobara KDE
That's it. Not hopping any time soon, no point when all my games work.
Like some others said, try out Gentoo. Follow the Handbook and you'll learn a lot about the system
>slack
>bsd
>gentoo
>lfs
>LoseThos
>Ubuntu
>Debian
>Arch
>Fedora
Thinking about going full NixOS for reproducibility but really I got Pika Backup and can rebuild everything super fast.
New PCs aren't a problem either. But it would be cleaner for sure.
NixOS is nice but man is it retarded with binaries.
Also who came up with the name steam-run LMAO. Why didn't they just call it flake-run or some shit
what does this mean?
Certain programs and games made for Linux that expect FHS and don't work on nix, so to get around that they have a thing called steam-run that can emulate an FHS-compatible environment.
>he doesn't use a buildFHSEnv derivation
The directory structure is making me second guess too tbh.
>Windows XP
>Windows Vista
>Ubuntu 8.04
>Windows 7
>Windows 8
>Ubuntu 14.04
>Windows 7
>OSX Yosemite
>Debian 7 or 8
>Windows 10 LTSB 2016
>Windows 10 LTSC 2019
>Ubuntu 20.04
>OpenSuse Leap
>Debian 10 or 11
>Windows 10 Ent
>Windows 11 Ent
>Windows 10 LTSC 2021
Future plans
>Ubuntu 24.04
If it sucks
>Windows 11 LTSC 2024
everyone lands on fedora or debian eventually
>Fedora
>Gentoo
thats it
im settled on gentoo
i suggest it wholeheartedly
Don't remember the order, and been on several of these many times:
>NixOS
>Arch
>Gentoo
>Debian
>Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu
>EndeavorOS
>openSUSE TW
>openSUSE MicroOS
>Fedora
>Fedora Silverblue and Kinoite
>Void
>Artix
>LMDE
>MX Linux
>Manjaro
Probably also some others. I'm not proud of it. It was when I was a student and NEET for 6 months after graduation. Now I have a good job and just use Silverblue (have for a long time now).
>Arch
>Fedora
>Debian
>NixOS
>Arch
>NixOS
And since that, I've been on NixOS for around 4 years now give or take. Would be impossible for me to switch now anyway because of sunk cost fallacy. I've spent hundreds of hours getting shit to work. Worth it.
>also, what's anon's distro hopping history?
Ubuntu
my history is ubuntu, arch, lfs, fedora, void. I stopped distro hopping and just use void for my laptop and fedora for my desktop. I recommend installing whatever you feel works best for you.