What did yall end up settling on?
Ubuntu 7.04 -> 7.10 -> 8.04 -> 8.10 -> 9.04 -> 9.10 -> 10.04 -> 12.04 -> 14.04 -> 16.04 -> 18.04 -> 20.04 -> 22.04 -> 24.04 -> Fedora J/K Ubuntu 26.04
I like how sh.itjust.works
Haha, I feel that switch to LTS only releases. I was upgrading to every release in the beginning as well but it started to get old real fast. I run Mint nowdays. In the early days I loved testing new distros and tweaking around with my system, but after over a decade working in tech the last thing I want to do in my free time is have to fix my own computer.
Hell yeah! I was using Ubuntu 10-14 in college and now back on the train with 24, 25 and 26. Everything just works every time and all the professional apps I need are first class citizens and well supported.
Ubuntu Server, FreeBSD and OpenBSD are my server distros of choice as well. FreeBSD for a NAS. Gotta pick the right tools for the job!
Ubuntu -> Debian -> Linux Mint -> Fedora -> Arch -> Manjaro -> EndeavourOS -> SuSE Linux -> NixOS
I’m pretty happy on NixOS now…
I’m close to you, skipped a few intermediate steps though. Ubuntu -> Mint -> Manjaro -> CachyOS
Arch. Would love to find something better but I can’t.
same. not having those big version updates and having control over everything i want from the start just feels so good
and how incredible stable it is
Debian for the 72fth time.
Fedora ended that for me. It has mostly what I want and is just kinda comfy to use.
Same. But I went atomic, bluefin.
For a stable every day driver? It’s gonna take a lot to get me to switch away.
Still Debian for my proxmox VMs though
Linux mint and often LMDE.
is funny, I always end up back at mint.
It just good, it just works yet let’s me customize.
EndeavourOS is home. 💜
At least we can distro-hop. Different needs, different preferences, and we can choose what works best for us. Heck, you can even go hardcore with Yocto and create your own distro!
Compare that to the poor sods on the Apple and Windows side of the fence. They have to cope with whatever some bigwig thought was best for them. A mediocre one size fits all solution, stuffed to the brim with whatever they fancy. Including ads, malware, and AI everywhere.
I’ve tried hundreds, I have a laptop I just use for bare metal distrohopping… but I’ve just hit 6 months using NixOS on all my PCs and laptops. I strongly recommend everyone give it a go.
OpenSuse Tumbleweed for my gaming PC. Fedora KDE for everything else (laptops, mom’s desktop).
Ubuntu -> Pop!_OS -> EndeavourOS.
I’m quite happy here :)
I have this handy little bash function, I think you should use it.
get-english-ordinal-ending() { case "$1" in *11 | *12 | *13) printf 'th' ;; *1) printf 'st' ;; *2) printf 'nd' ;; *3) printf 'rd' ;; *) printf 'th' ;; esac }This gets it wrong for the seventy-secoth item.
The urge to downvote something you really shouldn’t have never been so strong.
CachyOS. Everytime I stray away from Arch, it always finds a way to pull me back in.
No hopping. Debian.
I was like this before I tried regular Arch. I probably would’ve settled on NixOS if I had tried that first. I feel like Linux Mint could be the end of the line because it just works on a lot of old machines & does so quickly.
