What is/was your distrohopping journey?

Kiuyn , 28 days ago

For me it is like this: Window–>ubuntu(a month)–>kubuntu(a week)–>Opensuse tumbleweed

I also tried Nobara, zorinos, arch and bazzite but never actually use them

LeLachs , 28 days ago

Mine was Windows XP -> Ubuntu -> Xubuntu -> Windows 10 -> Kubuntu -> KDE Neon -> back to Kubuntu -> Manjaro -> Endeavour OS -> Fedora -> Debian -> NixOS

I also have a separate Laptop for financial things running Alma Linux and a Gaming PC running bazzite

RmDebArc_5 , 28 days ago

Windows -> Ubuntu -> Mint -> Fedora -> Pop -> Manjaro -> Garuda -> Debian -> Zorin -> Endeavor -> feren -> opensuse tumbleweed -> opensuse leap -> KDE neon -> blendOS -> MX -> Debian + peppermint (on old laptop) -> Mint cinnamon + Mint XFCE -> Fedora atomic -> Fedora

Additionally: rasbian on pi, alpine for VM, puppy for usb, steamos on steam deck

Linus_Torvalds , 28 days ago

Windows 7 -> Windows 10 -> Mint -> Kubuntu -> Arch -> Fedora -> Mint -> Fedora.

dwzero , 28 days ago

DOS, to Windows XP, to Xubuntu, to Kubuntu, to Nix OS. In hindsight I should have probably tried Arch, but Nix was the first one to sell me on something else, and Arch just seems like a downgrade from Nix.

nore , 28 days ago

Windows 8.1 (~10 years) -> Xubuntu (a few months) -> Arch linux (present).

hawdini , 28 days ago

DOS -> Windows (3.1 through to XP) -> Slackware -> Red Hat -> Fedora -> OpenSUSE -> Ubuntu -> Mint -> Ubuntu -> Arch

It’s been quite the journey.

diamat , 28 days ago

Windows 95 -> 98 -> XP -> 7 -> 8 -> OSX -> Arch (1 month) -> Gentoo (1 year) -> VOID (3 years) -> NixOS (4 years) (transitioning to Guix System now)

For reference, this was my editor hopping journey which started during my OSX days since I learned to program during this time: Sublimetext -> vim -> neovim -> emacs

steeznson , 28 days ago

Windows -> MacOS -> Windows -> Ubuntu (2012) -> Arch (2013) -> Gentoo (2016)

Gentoo cured my distrohopping

Zucca , 26 days ago (edited 26 days ago)

Gentoo cured my distrohopping

Kinda the same with me, I’ve been using Gentoo the most of my life.

abclop99 , 28 days ago

Windows -> Ubuntu and Arch on some other computers -> Windows -> Arch -> Nixos

Steamymoomilk , 28 days ago

Windows xp > windows 7 > windows 10 > manjaro (broke it with the aur) > arch (broke again) > kbuntu > fedora > fedora silverblue > Nixos > Gentoo

Now i compile with 14 core xeon 2697 v3 48gb of ram and vega 64. Peak machine and distro

fratermus , 28 days ago

warning: some non-linux included below

• minix
• slackware
• early Debian
• FreeBSD (ftp installs instead of 20 floppies! OMG!)
• Debian
• Crunchbang <-- loved that original project
• Solaris (friend gave me a Sparc 5)
• DSL, Puppy linux (had a tiny netbook)
• **Debian on workstations and servers since ~2014 **
• various debian-based distros on RPI

I do spin up other distros in a VM from time to time to see what’s what. Most recently NixOS since people won’t STFU about it. :-)

the16bitgamer , 28 days ago

Windows 95 -> Windows 98 -> Windows XP -> Windows Vista -> Windows 7 -> Dual Boot Ubuntu -> Windows 7 -> Dual Boot Ubuntu -> Windows 7 -> Windows 10 -> Ubuntu (VM) -> Pop_OS! -> Windows 10 -> Manjaro -> Fedora -> Manjaro -> Open Suse -> Linux Mint -> Linux Mint DE -> Fedora -> Debain -> Linux Mint

tuna , 28 days ago (edited 27 days ago)

<span style="color:#323232;">o Windows 10
</span><span style="color:#323232;">|
</span><span style="color:#323232;">o Linux Mint
</span><span style="color:#323232;">|
</span><span style="color:#323232;">|__
</span><span style="color:#323232;">|   
</span><span style="color:#323232;">|    o Manjaro KDE
</span><span style="color:#323232;">|    |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">o Fedora KDE
</span><span style="color:#323232;">|    |__
</span><span style="color:#323232;">|    |   
</span><span style="color:#323232;">x    |    o Windows 11
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     |    o Windows 11 + Arch Linux
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     |    |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     o Arch Linux
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     |    |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     |    |
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     |    o Windows 11 + Debian KDE
</span><span style="color:#323232;">     |    |
</span>

hopefully it renders well on your client :D

Tlaloc_Temporal , 28 days ago

Man, a monospace fixed size array would be really nice for ASCII art eh? Kinda like a text image. I suppose you could take a screenshot, but then there’s image hosting issues in the future.

Sorry, random idea.

tuna , 27 days ago

Screenshot woulda been better just so everyone sees the same thing lol. I wasn’t sure what it would look like because on browser it highlighted some things green, and on Voyager it seems to highlight 4+ space indented as gray. No clue what is going on there :D

vim with :set virtualedit=all gets pretty close being able to “paint” text anywhere… unfortunately i was on my phone and didn’t think to use it

aeharding , 27 days ago

You can also do code block with plain:

<span style="color:#323232;">```plain
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Stuff here
</span>

lord_ryvan , 17 days ago

Looks great! ~ Jerboa 0.0.67 on LOS 20 (Android 13)

redxef , 28 days ago

Didn’t really hop much, started with Windows, went on to OSX, got annoyed at it and ran Arch in a VM until I was comfortable with it, then went bare-metal with it.

Happy Arch user for some years now, though recently I’m using Fedora for work and I really like it. It’s not a good fit for some machines I’m running which need a lot of customisations to run properly.