I have never used a distro till its eol. The temptation to install some new distro becomes too high and I always end up installing a new one.

How many distros have you used till its eol ?

Interesting - even after 20 years of usage, none. I hopped too much and was never happy with any of them for very long. The ones I was happiest with were rolling releases, but those have issues (updates too frequent with breakage sometimes) so I tired of even that. Ended up moving to BSD and although that was not without challenges, I am happy.

I had installed FreeBSD once. I had to do a lot of tweaking to make it act as a desktop OS. Its aimed at servers mainly but I was impressed about the fact that how robust and powerful PF firewall is.

It is certainly not a "click next" install and you are correct: it is predominantly used for servers. I use it as my desktop and it works well, but I did have to do some tweaking. I am also running it on my firewall, albeit it's an appliance.

A few games tend to ONLY run on things like ubuntu 14.04, so if you want to play that game, you have to run 14.04. Which should be EOL by now. But it depends on what you mean by run till EOL. I have a pocketchip and it's "images" are mostly gone with the defunct company that made it. Which runs debian jessie IIRC, so soon to be EOL, if not already. I have a banana pi m3 (octa-core arm cpu) that I use as my wifi dongle via ethernet. I sometimes update/upgrade, but have never re-installed it in at least a year, maybe more. The ssh suggests that it runs raspbian jessie, but it has it's "android" kernel, which I doubt has updated since it's release. It's for lack of a better term "router" status is because that kernel lacks basic things like snd-usb-audio, so I can't even use it as a pulseaudio server. Or other file like tasks since android kernels lack ext* and other "options". Kind of EOL from the factory, from a certain point of view.

Most things that I run and use as daily drivers, I tend to re-install at least yearly, if not twice or four times a year. If only to remove cruft. AKA all those packages you install to "check them out", but never get around to removing. Or installed by means that you are unsure that you can remove it (entirely). So I re-install. Although for me that means buying a new "stick" and installing to it, and putting the old one in a drawer.

I kept using CrunchBang Linux for a while, even past its eol. It was the first Linux distro I fell in love with, and was tough to give up.

I suppose I could claim LFS, because I use the current one until the next release comes through, and then use it to build the new version. I've been doing that for about five years now.

Interestingly... none.

I started using Linux with Slackware (3.0? I still have the CD--came with the `Linux Unleashed' book--but it's in storage), it's still around, and I'm running recent versions on a couple of systems. Following Slackware I went to Red Hat and then to SUSE and, later, to openSUSE for daily use. They're all still around.

Cheers...

You posted this exact same topic on the Mint forum too. Weird.

My answer is the same here as there.

Does this count EOL for subtypes of distros, like lack of 32bit support requiring you to uninstall?

I guess so. Yes.

Are you saying hifi100 has a duplicate thread topic with this one?

Not here. I made thread at https://forums.linuxmint.com

Ah, thank your for clarifying

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