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?

  • @oldfart@lemm.ee
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    31 year ago

    I used Kububtu between 2008 and around 2013, then got so fed up with KDE4 bugs I switched to Xubuntu, and am using that ever since.

    So that’s 10 or 15 years depending how you count.

    When I want to play, I start a VM, base OS needs to be rock solid.

    • @unix_joeOP
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      1 year ago

      KDE 4 really, really set the Linux desktop back for years, at a time where we could have made a strong push into the mainstream market.

      • @oldfart@lemm.ee
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        21 year ago

        Yeah, it looked really modern and was great when it worked, which wasn’t too often.