Linux

Gentoo cured me of distrohopping back in 2009. Before my computer died in 2018 I was still running the same install for 9 years. My current Gentoo install is only 3 years and change old, though.

I've been on Gentoo since late 2005, so almost 18 years.

I only ever run Debian on my servers (around 15 systems) since about 2010, and I run (a modified version of) Ubuntu on my desktops. Although my desktop decision may change pretty soon if they keep pushing Snaps. Although I run ubuntu, I am thankfully Snap-free...

I've been using Void almost exclusively since ~2019.

On the desktop side, I used Slackware for about 7 years, then switched to Ubuntu for another 15 years, and recently years used Debian and Tails (after suffering several government-level hacking operations). I basically use Ubuntu for servers, I'm thinking about Debian or OpenBSD.

At least one of my primary use boxes has been running Fedora since 2003 (and Red Hat Linux RIP before that, going back to... 1996? since fedora was the successor to Red Hat Linux, I'd say I've got 25 years on "Fedora" at this point). I have rotated a variety of Debian derivatives on other boxes used in parallel, particularly Debian itself. What keeps me coming back to Fedora is its "stable plus really really fresh", consistently, for a long time.

I distro hopped quite a bit before I settled. Now been running Arch coming up a decade. Before my current PC build, my previous install was 6 years old. I've DE hopped a number of times throughout that time though. I used Deepin for the longest period until they changed the UI to something more like Windows. DE hopped for a while after that. Now been using KDE for several years and happy to stay.

I used the same Ubuntu install since at least 18.04, possibly back to 16.04 (can't quite remember if I upgraded to 18.04 as a fresh install), up until my upgrade to 22.04 from 20.04 failed. I took that opportunity to try a different distro, which eventually led to my current KDE Neon install.

@unix_joe fedora and arch. Because anything Ubuntu based kinda sucks.

I've only really used Gentoo, Debian and Ubuntu (in that order!), each for years at a time over the past two decades. I suppose it shows how progessively fewer fucks I give about the inner workings of the system.

I also tried to install a copy of... TurboLinux 6, I think? that I got from a Ham Radio swap meet as a kid sometime in the '90s, but I never got it to work.

Started with Ubuntu for just a year on desktop and Debian on server for nearly 10 years. Desktop switched in this time from arch to Debian, back to arch, and finally to Fedora. This will never change. Debian - server, Fedora - desktop.

I tested some others in VM: elementary, SuSe, Archcraft, kubuntu, lubuntu, xubuntu, PopOS, manjaro. None of these passed my expectations for a bare metal install.

On phone: mobian, manjaro, postmarket and the winner danctnix-arch. But I want to give postmarket a second chance.

Been on Artix Linux for about 3 years. Occasionally there’s a package that breaks, but nothing serious. Been very happy with a minimal environment using Bspwm/sxhkd and the st terminal mainly.

I used Manjaro for 3 years 2018-2021 on my laptop. I think that's the longest yet. Been using EndeavourOS since, almost 2 years now.

I don't do distro hopping, because I don't believe there is any significant difference between the capabilities provided by individual distro. So, I switched only when changed jobs (2000-2006 Debian, 2006-2018 various RedHat/Fedora distros, 2018- various SUSE distros (Tumbleweed, now Greybeard).