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?

  • @proycon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    I’m not much of a distro-hopper. I think I’ve been on just four distros on my daily-driving desktop & laptop since about 1999:

    • RedHat (around 1999, starting with 6.0)
    • Mandrake (around 2001?)
    • Ubuntu (around 2006)
    • Arch Linux (around 2012 - today), and no intention to hop. In fact, I recently bought a new PC and installed Arch again. On the previous machine, I installed it once and it rolled nicely its entire lifetime.

    My personal server has been running Ubuntu LTS for ages, I might have run debian a long time ago, but I’m not sure anymore. Nowadays I run a container setup, and those are running on Alpine Linux.