Linux

Linux Mint for 6 or 7 years.

Linux Mint since 2018. Everything has worked so smoothly, I've never felt the need to change.

MX and Opensuse

The most I’ve ever made is 6 months. Redhat seems a lot less fragile so we’ll see.

I've been on Fedora Linux for almost a year now. Considering that I started using Linux when the pandemic started, you can figure out that it's my distro of choice now. Also, I like that Fedora is, for the most part, quite developer friendly and had great packages and software installed when I first started using it.

I only just started using linux on my laptop like a year and a half ago, I hoped around at first but then around a year ago landes on Fedora with KDE, and haven't used anything else (besides SteamOS) sense

Been using Ubuntu, or more recently, Kubuntu since 2006. Not sure that counts as a distro change. Can't say enough good things about KDE these days though.

First one was SuSe, but I've been with Ubuntu since the early days... Sometimes I'll install another distro to have a peek, but I always revert to Ubuntu after a short while...Only time I felt the urge to change, was when they shipped it with unity as default...

Void linux been using it now for 2 years on my laptop

I've had an HP Dev One with Pop!_OS for right about a year now. I've done plenty of hopping and testing of other distributions prior to last year, but started with Ubuntu in 2009/2010 and have always felt most comfortable with Debian based OSs.

5 or 6 years using ArchLinux, I'm very happy :)

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

On Fedora since 2018. At first my main pc, then my laptop and at last my tablet. Never had big issues with it.

Ubuntu from 5.04 to 18.04. The memory usage and Gnome redesign got too annoying. I switched to Arch and KDE.

Been on Manjaro i3wm edition since 2018

I've been using linux for a long time. Typically stuck with Ubuntu and upgrading when the next LTS was released. I did try other flavors like ubuntu budgie as well. Also liked ZorinOS for a year or two.

Then things like elementary were fun to use, but for a daily driver, I like a little more main stream OS and desktop experience.

Currently using Fedora cinnamon for the last year. I have some VMs that probably stay the longest, but for my personal laptop, I usually spend a year or two on it.

My Nix repo starts in 2015. But by the looks of it I only started using it for my desktop in 2020. So I guess 8 years for my servers and 3 years for my desktops.

Before that I used Arch for quite a long time on desktop, probably about 5 years.

Since roughly a decade I use Arch Linux with i3/sway for all my daily computing.

I've been running crux on my main workstation since 2014 now, and never looked back. Though nowadays, OpenBSD feels pretty appealing to me (I run it exclusively on my ~6 VPS).

20+ years on openbsd and debian evenly spread out on different machines, also 5+ years of arch usage.

I stopped having time (or inclination) to mess around with multiple distributions after getting out of college and into real life. So... Since at least about 2002, with Debian.

Thanks to this post i just realized I've been using arch for 9 years. I did hop DEs a bunch up till about 3 years ago when i settled for plasma on Wayland (on? with? Idk), but the arch ecosystem has proven the perfect balance of flexibility and stability (yes i find arch very stable). Before arch i distro hopped almost annually since about 2006.

Linux Mint for AMD, Pop_OS! for Nvidia. Former is workstation, latter is gaming.

I started out on SuSE back in 94 and spent a while checking out rpm-based distros like Mandrake, RedHat, etc. Even stuff like m68k Linux, Slackware and the BSDs. Debian at that time was a pain to use. Used Gentoo for a while until I switched to Mac. After that I used Ubuntu, Mint, Antergos, Manjaro, Arch and Fedora.

And then I started noticing a pattern that I would always get frustrated with whatever I was trying out and go back to Fedora. So now it's been around five years I've stuck with Fedora for my gaming machine and my desktop.

Manjaro ended my distro hopping itch +10 years ago. I occasionally test distros in VM, but nothing has made me want to switch so far.

Back in the day I had just clobbered together a 1ghz Athlon 462 pc from old parts. Finally, I had a pc of my very own that wasn't a dogshit ass Pentium or 486 class machine. Unfortunately, Windows 98se didn't like my graphic card drivers and Windows XP needs a fuckin activation code so I downloaded Ubuntu and I've been using Ubuntu ever since.

I personally started on Mint back in 2017. Loved it, but then started getting into virtual machines. So I started disto hopping (installed them in a VM), tried Ubuntu, Tumbleweed, Arch, Fedora, and KDE Neon. Fell on love with KDE Plasma and now I happily use KDE Neon as my daily driver. Tried switching to another distro but found myself missing the many features (the clipboard applet was a game changer for me) and customization that Neon offered so I switched back. Havent found a better distro yet.

I've been on Ubuntu since I first got their CDs in the mail. Sadly, they're determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, and I'm now moved over completely to NixOS. It's like what they're trying to do with snaps, but competently executed.

Ubuntu from 2010ish - 2015. Fedora ever since, with a short period of playing around with Arch on my laptop in early 2020.

I have used Mandrake / Mandriva for over 10 years. Since 2010 I use Arch. So also already for more than 10 years.

Personally, I have never understood why some people regularly change the distribution. When I am interested in a distribution, I simply install it in a virtual environment for testing.

Debian for more than 15 years now.

As my personal day-tp-day system, It looks like 8 years of Ubuntu. I have a file server that just will not die that's been running Ubuntu LTS since 2008 though.

Here's my Distro journey:

-1996-1997 - Debian (Still dual booting Windows) -1997-2002 - RedHat Desktop 5.0-7.3 (Linux became my main day-to-day OS!) -2002-2003 - Crux -2003-2008 - Gentoo -2008-2012 - Ubuntu / Ubuntu LTS -2012-2014 - Mint -2014-2022 - Ubuntu / Ubuntu LTS / Xubuntu (I switched back to Ubuntu as my personal OS since I had deployed Ubuntu to over 100 systems at work, and I had a little netbook with Xubuntu) -2022-???? - LMDE 5 (Linux Mint - Debian Edition)

Still loving LMDE.

I'm pretty new to Linux, committed to it 2021 and last changed to EndeavorOS (basically an arch installer + a few quality of life packages) around one and a half years ago. It recently broke on my desktop (btrfs disk full, though it didn't show as full, during update. And my snapshots were setup incorrectly). Looking into trying out NixOS on it now, my Laptop will stay EndeavorOS for the foreseeable future though.

I dabbled with Linux/Unix (Suse, Gentoo, Debian, Slackware, Arch, NetBSD, a little Solaris, a couple of those long-dead floppy/livecd/liveusb systems... and some less-unix things like BeOS) starting in about 1998 and slowly moved fully over to Linux as the daily driver. My usual distro for personal machines has been Arch since about 2004, though I've typically had *buntu, and/or CentOS (starting at cAos, now migrating to Rocky) machines for some things I do professionally, and at least one personal Debian server.

I did a lot of environment hopping early on, but settled on XFCE from about 2007-2017, then KDE from about 2017-current once Plasma5 got its resource consumption under control. I've been playing with Hyprland a little bit recently, just because it's the least-broken way to fiddle with a Wayland environment I've found, but I like floating+snapping better than tiling so I doubt it'll become my daily driver.

I think my first Arch install was off 0.2 or 0.3 media in mid-2002, and there are probably only a month or two in that time that I haven't had at least one Arch box, so that's two decades.

Two years, Arch. Idk why but it feels comfy. Rolling release for the most up to date bugs + the AUR 👌🏼