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?

  • k-tec
    3•1 year ago

    Lets see. Debian since 1997… so 26 years. Back then you had to order 12 CDs through the post.

    • @unix_joeOP
      1•1 year ago

      Wow. Yeah I remember having to use something like CheapBytes to download the Slackware and FreeBSD install sets. I didn’t start using Linux until 1998.

      • k-tec
        2•1 year ago

        I also remember the joy(!) of trying to work out which CD-ROM to insert for the package I wanted to install. Mostly trial and error.