What is/was your distrohopping journey?

Ozzy , 26 days ago

Ubuntu VM (~2 years) -> Debian VM(1 week) -> Arch VM (1 month) -> Arch

smiletolerantly , 26 days ago

• Windows (family PC)
• a BUNCH of Ubuntu-based distros (Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu Studio (which was awesome btw), Mint,… ) on my first own PC
• Arch for years and years and years
• NixOS

I wouldn’t count the last switch as distro hopping though. It was a calculated decision after months of deliberation and trying things out. And now that everything is set up, I am very certain that I’ll never switch to another distro again, Nix is just too good.

pmk , 26 days ago

Ubuntu (2007) >> Arch (2009) >> Debian (2014) >> Fedora (2024)
Plus now and then installing OpenBSD for fun for a couple of months at a time.

1boiledpotato , 26 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

GustavoM , 26 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.

ItsPlasmaSir , 26 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.

mumblerfish , 26 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)

CrabAndBroom , 26 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 , 26 days ago

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

TeddyKila , 26 days ago

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

kionite231 , 26 days ago

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

drwho , 26 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.

Parabola , 26 days ago

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

KingThrillgore , 26 days ago

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

0x0 , 26 days ago

Debian from woody until systemd, gentoo since.

owatnext , 26 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.