Linux

My current one, Fedora, since 36 had just released. I'll probably continue to use it as I wasn't as much of a distro hopper as most people anyway.

It either has to be my current arch install or my Debian install before that. I might head back to Debian (sid) since it was close enough. I might swap over to Debian stable on my laptop over the current Ubuntu install though.

I'm not much of a distro-hopper. I think I've been on just four distros on my daily-driving desktop & laptop since about 1999:

• RedHat (around 1999, starting with 6.0)
• Mandrake (around 2001?)
• Ubuntu (around 2006)
• Arch Linux (around 2012 - today), and no intention to hop. In fact, I recently bought a new PC and installed Arch again. On the previous machine, I installed it once and it rolled nicely its entire lifetime.

My personal server has been running Ubuntu LTS for ages, I might have run debian a long time ago, but I'm not sure anymore. Nowadays I run a container setup, and those are running on Alpine Linux.

Archlinux since 2009
So 14 years

Been disto-hopping a lot before ending up in openSUSE Tumbleweed (with KDE Plasma desktop). Now using it for about 6 years as my main desktop/laptop distro.

Fedora for 4 years. Currently playing around with nixOS and ublue

Probably ubuntu from 05-16. Switched to arch around then, and been on manjaro since 2020.

Ubuntu from 2006 right up until they replaced the firefox deb with a mandatory snap, whenever that was. Then I was on Pop OS for about 6 months, and now Fedora, which I don't see myself leaving anytime soon.

One year I think.

I was on Arch for 4years. Been on Fedora for 3 now. Same install.

If constantly reinstalling every LTS counts, then I've been on Ubuntu for 7 years, followed by Xubuntu for 6. Then Manjaro for three years (rolling, ofc), and now Steam OS on the Deck for al less than half a year with no plans to switch?

Been on arch for 13 years. Use rocky and Ubuntu at work. Thinking of switching to nixos, need free time.

Probably Debian for six or seven years, but my time on Manjaro must be close by now and I see no reason to change

Errrm iirc; Slackware 3 years, RedHat 4 years (dual boot OS/2 for some of that),(embarrassed look: no linux for a couple of years), Ubuntu <1 year, Mint 5 years, Arch now 3 years and current (still have a Mint dual boot and the rest of the family run it)

I've been on Solus for my office computer for just over 5 years. Works great! I was worried that was going to change when they had a leadership crisis a few months back but that resolved well and Solus is stronger then ever.

The attraction to Solus is that it is rolling and stable. That combination is not common elsewhere.

I've been staying with Arch for a while now, maybe a few months. Might switch to NixOS in the future but right now I'm happy. I used Fedora, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, etc before that.

Host system is Ubuntu LTS, and unless they do something stupid like for example making snaps mandatory I can't see myself switching. Only used it for a couple of months though, before that I was on windows, but I've been using Linux VMs since 2008.

Linux Mint for some years now, generally in the ubuntu ecosystem for a long time

Fedora for over a decade now. I started with Ubuntu in 2007 used it until I installed Fedora 17 in 2012. haven't felt the need to switch.

My main desktop computer had been running Ubuntu for 7 years until I had to do a full wipe and decided to move to arch to check it out. I never got the point of distro hopping myself really.

I’ve been on Fedora for about 7 years. My server flips between Ubuntu and CentOS every couple of years.

I was on Debian from around 1996ish to 2019.

Been on Pop OS since then.

I was on Arch for a couple of years on and off (had only 256 GB of storage on my old laptop, so I didn't dual boot), stopped using Linux for around a year, and now I've been on Fedora for a year and a half.

Though I thinking of going back to Ubuntu on their next LTS release, part of the reason I wanted cutting-edge distros was because I wanted updated packages, especially Gnome as every update brought big (positive) changes. Most of it seems to have stabilized with only small creature comforts being added now, so I want a stable distro that doesn't cause Windows to ask me to enter my encryption key every couple of weeks due to a kernel update.

I have been on Archlinux since the end of 2008. I've only installed it three times though. So i guess i fit the more than a decade thing

Honestly, about 4 months, and it was Arch. I've been using Linux for over a year now. Currently I'm on NixOS trying to make things work the way I want them to, but there's still some minor issues that are difficult to deal with.

I've been on Debian for about 10 years now. I know there's plenty of other great distros, but now I want one that's stable and just works.

My longest was when i went 100% Full time on my main machine (no dual boot), I stopped distro-hoppping. I Installed Debian stable when it first came out (Jessie) and stayed with it until it shifted to "old-stable" which was a little bit over 3 years.

A lot of people give Debian stable a hard time but i found it worked well. Most software that i needed to be a little bit newer i could get from the backports repository. It was only at the end of it's lifecycle that i noticed started running in to software being a little to old for what i wanted to do. Then i went back to distro-hopping for a while until i found my next home. :-)

Been using Arch since ~2021

I used Arch for a few years before I really got sucked into distro-hopping. Finally settled on Debian for 2 years, last year I moved to Gentoo, and I swapped to NixOS just last week. I am feeling like NixOS has the potential to stick around for the long haul, I am a big fan of the declarative nature of the distro. Still ironing out some bugs, though (I also recently switched from i3 to Hyprland, so the X->Wayland swap has been an additional hurdle.

My first Debian install was in 2010, and I've had at least one of my machines on Debian Stable ever since. It's rock solid and has the fewest annoyances of any distro I've tried.

Fedora for the last 4 or 5 years

Archlinux. Many years ago, not sure exactly when, but more than 10years. Last distro I really used before Arch was ZenWalk, slackware based. Arch was the only one that after many tries and over the years remains the most consistent, simple and reliable that I can manage without much effort.

After using on my personal computers Arch I still tried and used on the work machines Ubuntu lts releases. It gave so much problems that I just now use Arch everywhere and anytime I get a new work machine it's what gets installed too.

I have to say that I was a serious heavy distro hoper back in the days and tried basically everything that existed. Just not gentoo. But fedoras, mandrakes, mandrivas, knopix, slackware, bsd, suse, etc, I regularly spent time with them all and was changing a lot and tried many new releases. The longest I've been with a distro was ZenWalk, more than a year or 2 and then Arch appeared on my radar and once I jumped ship, never got the need for anything else.

I started with SLS around 1993, tracking it into Slackware. From 1996 thereabouts on, I used RedHat mostly and Suse occasionally.

Both of those going more commercial each in their own ways didn't sit too well with me.

In 2004 I found gentoo, and am sticking with it for most everything since.

I've bounced around Fedora, Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Mint over the years. I've been on Zorin OS going on two years and I'm eagerly waiting for 17 to release. I don't see myself hopping anytime soon.

I'm not sure how long, but I bet Mint is my longest distro. Next would probably either Manjaro or SUSE.