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?

  • Bright Spark
    1•2 years ago

    I have been using the Debian-based Open Media Vault on my home server for… probably four, five years now, at first just for a cheap dumb “NAS”, which has slowly featurecrept itself into being my personal replacement for damn near everything except E-Mail.

    On my daily driver(s) though… tough to say, because I was distribution-hopping for a while. But currently, I seem to have found my home on Arch. I had tried Ubuntu, Linux Mint and a few others every now and then, but at the time always went back to Windows for one reason or another.

    But… ironically, since I am now working for a Microsoft Partner and thus play a lot less games and no longer have to send out applications or use specific tools for vocational school or uni or something, I am no longer bound to Windows in my time off, so I have been using Manjaro for a few months at first, before I reinstalled and went to Arch proper.