How long do you stick with a particular distro?
Hello LQ members
What's the longest time you stayed with a particular distro without distro hopping? I've been using pclinuxos for two years now and still do so. I do occasionally distro hop, but it's through a VM. However, PClinuxOS is always the main host OS and the only distro on my PC. Thanks for reading |
Hi,
about 15 years. Evo2. |
Everything was just peachy until Mandrake got into trouble. Since then it's all been a bit of a hopping frenzy. I stuck with slackware for about 6 months once. Then I borked it and couldn't get it back to where it was before. Some days I can install several distros, one after another (there are reasons, it's not all mental illness).
That said, the closest I've come to thinking "hmmm, I could stay here", has been with Voyager Linux and elementaryOS. |
About 10 years with Slackware (and many more to come!), 6 with Mandrake before that, mostly SuSe before that but with a good bit of evaluation of others in the early days.
I just never was a distro hopper and can't relate... ;) |
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with the exception of a couple of using ubuntu, my machines at home have been redhat/fedora for the past 15 years.
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First started Linux on my old laptop. I was trying to find out a simple lightweight linux distro, hence I used to switch a lot between small size distros.
Then I switched to Debian Netinstall soon. It gave me a good lightweight start. I added lot of stuff on it. I used Debian for around 3 years before getting a new laptop. Now I run Arch Linux and Gentoo. Nowadays I do not switch linux distros but I am always on way to find a better distro for me as compared to I am using. Well in general I use a distro until it's version's End Of Life. So after using Debian Squeeze for about 3 years (still I use on old laptop), I switched to Arch. |
I just never was a distro hopper and can't relate...
Too much choice overwhelms. |
I guess ubuntu is the one I have used consistently the last couple years. One of my desktops and my old media centre both use ubuntu. My RPi uses Arch and I play around with LFS on my laptop. So for an actual time frame, I'd say about 2 years. I hop around too much. I never seem to find myself happy somewhere :)
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More 10 years with Slackware.
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i was distro hopper in the past (slackware, slack, dsl, mandrake, debian, knoppix, vector linux, some (lxk)ubuntu's, backtrack, openbsd). nowadays im using debian(virtualbox)/debian based(kali) distros. in the future i am installing slackware to my box, which i really, really like, maybe going to install openbsd also.
but to answer ur question, i have been using debian since 2006ish, also used openbsd maybe 2004-2008 as a desktop and transparent bridge firewall to guard home network. |
1) Six months with Ubuntu.
2) Three months with Fedora. 3) Been on Arch for almost a year now, albeit I took the Archbang route initially because I wanted instant gratification at the time when I was migrating from Fedora, but I replaced the Archbang default Openbox config with my own MATE config, however I do wanna attempt a vanilla Arch install on my computer at some point down the road. 4) Haven't tried Gentoo yet, but I wanna try it at some point down the road either in a VM or on a second machine as well. Arch will remain the primary distro on my main computer though. |
I run several distros here. Of those, the ones I've been using the longest are Ubuntu (about 8 years) and Debian (almost 7 years).
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Member Response
Hi,
When PV released Slackware I decided to jump on for the ride and never jumped off. I am very comfortable with Slackware & the community so why would one explore other avenues? I do use other Diagnostic/Recovery/Maintenance based Gnu/Linux to enhance my abilities when using my systems or benches. But I do not consider this as distro-hopping. Love my Slack! Have fun & enjoy. :hattip: |
Cool replies from all. Thanks
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