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From 2004-2008, I lost count how many tall spools of CD/DVD I tried, before I moved to USB pendrives for my distro surfing and distro hopping, for 2008-2012, and even more lost track how many many many more done ephemerally so, leaving no trace.

in 2012, I found a way I did not need to wrestle the compromises to try to find "the one", and embraced the many, with bedrocklinux's 2nd alpha release, and stopped all the rabid distro-hopping.

But...

Me on my way to distro hop for the 72th time

... Never needed be the corporate psycho though. You distro-hop differently to how I distro-hop. To me, it's a joy of exploration. To you, it's an inconvenient strategic means to power. We are not the same. ;)

Also... I'd say "72nd".

Edit:

Okay... I'm going to try answer this a 2nd time, in similar style as how others answered.

Suse > Sabayon > Crunchbang & Gentoo > Bedrock

Suse and Sabayon were basically my homebases from which I distro-surfed (1000s? 100s of distros). ... Though that didn't stop them getting hopped from and back to several times in each their aprox 4 years tenure.

I suppose I should at least make it this much more accurate, to give Devuan its due too.

2003 Suse > 2007 Sabayon > 2009 Crunchbang (on thinkpad) & 2010 Gentoo (on workstation) > 2012 Bedrock > 2018 Devuan > 2020 Bedrock

And all the spray of others don't get a mention. n_n

Almost never used systemd. Did not like the exceptions.

It's nice that on gentoo (and decent gentoo respins), you can choose. It's not leaning on you, with the "we don't support", the impression it has to be either systemd, or anything but systemd, respective of which camp that distro is in. But still, it is nicer to be in one of the distros that [purport to offer "init-freedom" but really] do "anything but systemd", for the range of choice and freedom that affords, contrast to the dogma of the one true way that all must follow. Systemd! Systemd! Systemd! Come, join the cult! Hehe. But, no, more choice is better. ... And not just a choice of which one true way (as in whatever the distro tries to decide for you), but choice within that distro too.

Okies... Let me just wipe the mouth froth away, and come to my senses again, out of that little gentoo gushing rant... What was this comment about again? Oh right... which distros... Yeah, answered. Now I'm just in overkill, burying the lede again, as pre usual. Meep.

The seventy-tooth

Am I the only one here that uses their computer instead of fucking with it?

I started on pop!_os and now 6 years later im on... pop!_os

Yeah, I didn't really do any distro hopping :p. Though I've tried a bunch of distros in VMs

Ubuntu -> Debian -> Linux Mint -> Fedora -> Arch -> Manjaro -> EndeavourOS -> SuSE Linux -> NixOS

I'm pretty happy on NixOS now...

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

Debian for the 72fth time.

Mint > Ubuntu > Lubuntu > Arch (desktop) / Debian (server)

I switched away from Canonical the first time I saw an ad when running apt update & apt upgrade, fuck them forever.

I'm sticking to Arch because its easier to install something myself than to rip apart something prepackaged.

I'm curious about trying Void.

I started with like, nothing, linux 0.99 on 8 floppies and X11 on like 12 floppies... then some kind of LFS, then Debian, then Ubuntu, then Mint, then MX with Xfce (since almost 10 years)

ubuntu > fedora > manjaro > endeavor > arch > fedora > arch > nixos.

started in 2015 with ubuntu, started distrohopping in 2019 when i upgraded from laptop to desktop, but ended with nixos 3 years ago

Do people actually do this serial distro hopping? When such a meme is posted even now most people say they switched only a few times at most

Ubuntu -> Mint -> Arch -> NixOS

Ubuntu really drove me away for some time. Only when I got to Mint, I felt that Linux could be a daily driver. Arch made me strangely reinstall it every few days. Not by not working but by having the feeling of dirtying the machine on use.

NixOS is really what I want to use the rest of my life. Very complicated on first use but definitly worth it (for me).

Arch. Would love to find something better but I can't.

No hopping. Debian.

I'm a gamer who recently switched to Cachy and honnestly it is by far my favourite yet. It runs so smoothly without feeling bloated and it's perfect for someone like me who feels too noob to try pure Arch.

Fedora ended that for me. It has mostly what I want and is just kinda comfy to use.

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.

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.

Redhat > fedora > Debian > Ubuntu > mint > fedora. Been there for years now.

CachyOS. Everytime I stray away from Arch, it always finds a way to pull me back in.

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
}

Fedora - arch - nixos - arch - Debian - arch - debian

Started with Arch, landed on Artix ☺️

Ubuntu -> Pop!_OS -> EndeavourOS.

I'm quite happy here :)

Why settle? Software is a continually evolving ecosystem and grafting yourself to a certain distribution model or distribution team doesn't really make sense when you consider that. Some distribution might have the best things for you, today. Tomorrow, another may come along and do it better, or your current distribution may shift to not be to your liking anymore. Be flexible, but don't change for the sake of change. Change for a good reason.

Started with deb based distro, swicht later too arch based, now still on cachyOs

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.

No one?? Really?

72nd* time!