What is/was your distrohopping journey?

mrbn , 28 days ago

Windows 98 -> Slackware dual boot (with big ol’ red grub screen) -> windows up to win 10 -> debian(laptop) win10 (pc)

Gonna try getting a new m.2 drive and dual booting soon to test playing the games I like on Linux. If all goes well, I’ll be moving away from windows

refreeze , 28 days ago

Ubuntu -> Arch -> Debian (stable) -> Fedora Silverblue -> NixOS

xamino , 28 days ago

Window -> Mint -> Mint Debian -> Arch -> NixOS (not complete yet)

I am incredibly happy with NixOS, I love not having my entire OS and software configuration in a GIT repo, commits and comments included.

owatnext , 28 days ago

Windows Vista → Debian (pre-systemD) → Devuan → Void Linux.

I don’t like systemD.

I still have Windows installed as a dual boot setup for Adobe CC.

0x0 , 28 days ago

Debian from woody until systemd, gentoo since.

KingThrillgore , 28 days ago

Windows -> Ubuntu -> Xubuntu -> Arch -> macOS -> Windows 10 -> Arch -> Xubuntu and Windows 10 and probably back to Arch some day.

Parabola , 28 days ago

macOS, then Linux Mint, then Arch Linux, then EndeavourOS, then Artix Linux, and now Parabola GNU/Linux-libre.

drwho , 28 days ago

MS-DOS up until about 1995 or 1996. Slackware until 1997. Debian until 1998. Slackware again until 2000. Debian again until 2005. Gentoo until 2012. Arch up to the present.

kionite231 , 28 days ago

I have distrohoped a lot that I don’t even remember the sequence of the distros I have used.

TeddyKila , 28 days ago

Win7 > Mint XFCE > win10 > Fedora > Endeavouros > Tumbleweed

CrabAndBroom , 28 days ago

Mine was/is/will be:

• Windows
• Some ancient version of Corel Linux that came on a CD that was free with a magazine that I could never get to work properly
• Some version of SUSE that I bought from a computer store impulsively, that also never worked properly
• Ubuntu 6.something that finally worked!
• Several more years of Ubuntu, gradually drifting over to Kubuntu/KDE Neon as I realised I liked KDE more than GNOME/Unity
• Manjaro as an awkward transitional phase to becoming an Arch person
• A split between full Arch (btw) for my laptop which is the tinkering machine that I’m allowed to break, and Pop!OS on the desktop, which is the one other people use that has to actually work all the time
• The distant call of NixOS, which I’m currently fiddling with in a VM and is trying to tempt me into nuking my laptop once again.

pastermil , 28 days ago

• Windows XP
  • Ubuntu Studio
  • Mandriva (I think)
  • Zenwalk
• Windows 7
• Mac OS X
  • Arch Linux
  • LFS
• Fedora 20
• Gentoo & Debian
  • Linux Mint

INeedMana , 28 days ago

Windows (~6 years) -> Mandriva (Mandrake? For I think 2-3 years) -> Ubuntu (1 day) -> Suse (2 days) -> Slackware (2-3 years) -> Gentoo unstable (2-3 years) -> Gentoo stable (2-3 years) -> Arch (9 years and counting)

The only span I’m sure about is the last one. When I started a job I decided I don’t have the time to compile the world anymore. But the values after Windows sum up to 21, should be 20, so it’s all more or less correct

TranquilTurbulence , 28 days ago

I’ve never had gentoo before, but what I’ve heard from other people might explain that part of your journey. You went from unstable to stable to Arch, which says something.

INeedMana , 28 days ago

Gentoo unstable was a little bit tiring in the long run. The bleeding edge, but often I needed to downgrade because the rest of the libraries were not ready

Gentoo stable was really great. Back then pulseaudio was quite buggy. Having a system where I could tell all applications and libraries to not even link to it (so no need to have it installed at all) made avoiding its problems really easy
But when my hardware got older and compilation of libreoffice started to take 4h, I remembered how nice it was on Slackware where you just install package you broke and you’re done

Arch looked like a nice middle-ground. Most of the things in packages, big focus on pure Linux configurability (pure /etc files, no Ubuntu(or SUSE?) “you need working X.org to open distro-specific graphics card settings”) and AUR for things there are no official packages for. Turned out it was a match :)

blitzed , 28 days ago

@INeedMana @TranquilTurbulence

I never had the nerve to install Gentoo and bring my humble CPU to it's knees LOL

INeedMana , 28 days ago

It was a great adventure. But yeah, that setup was on 24/7. Not because of compilation, but it definitely made a lot of this more feasible

mumblerfish , 28 days ago

On my main computer: Ubuntu (@2005) -> Gentoo (for years) -> Arch (for maybe 6 months) -> Gentoo (for years) -> Debian (for years) -> Gentoo (until now)

ItsPlasmaSir , 28 days ago

My journey went Ubuntu (2012) -> Kubuntu (2018) -> Manjaro (2020) -> Fedora KDE (2022)

Most computers I had were used and low-end so Linux was always my preferred OS, but I always dualbooted with the version of Windows or MacOS the machine came with when I could.

My current computers have been Linux only for a couple years now, thanks to Windows being a headache and MacOS being inflexible.

GustavoM , 28 days ago

ZorinOS > Ubuntu > Debian and then Arch. I even tried Alpine linux recently but got “filtered” by the lack of gpu packages. Looks like I need to get my “googling” improved a bit.

1boiledpotato , 28 days ago

Windows (for my entire life) -> Ubuntu (for half a year) -> Kali (for a year; yes, I was that kid) -> Manjaro (half a year) -> Windows (for a short while, my Manjaro broke and I had school) ->Arch (past 4 years) -> now trying out NixOS