Eh, probably if Guix becomes significantly better I'll switch to it (from NixOS). I really like how seriously they take user freedom, bootstrapping (only 357 bytes of binary to bootstrap everything else from source!) and consistent user interfaces (scheme everywhere). But unfortunately the package repo is just not big and mature enough yet, and declarative configuration options are not as good as they are with NixOS. My job is also Nix-related, and that's another major reason I'm staying for now.
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If all the mirrors for pacman somehow got taken down, probably would switch to something corporate like Ubuntu.
Was a Ubuntu user from 9.10 until 20.04; snap shittyness caused me to hop around for a while. Settled on Mint a few years ago.
It's stable, gets out of my way and lets me get my work done.
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For the 'I use ... BTW' meme to say something else.
No, actually, I can't think of anything. I'm pretty comfortable with it at this point. Been running it since 2013...
Despite using MX only for a relatively short time, just messing around in a VM for a long period of time would increase my odds of switching to something else*.
*when I need to switch to something else or find something a lot better
Snap getting installed, ads when starting a shell. Basically the reasons I ditched Kubuntu.
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Hardware bugs/support, and Snap.
I used Fedora KDE from 2012 to 2023, then I moved to Fedora Kinoite because I like the idea of atomic distros. Don't know if that counts though since its mostly the same software, just delivered slightly differently (however you could argue that is the case for all distros)
A whim, usually.
Having broken lts-kernel and broken 6.15. At the same time. But the zen kernel saved me. So I guess if it was 3 broken kernels at the same time I would switch distro, haha. Lts was broken amdgpu kernel module, worse then sleep issue for mainline.
preinstalling snaps. i havent bothered to format my computer in years though, so i just purge it off for now.
I used ubuntu for 10+ yr and switched because of firefox snap. To fedora. Wow it is so much better here
I am
- Glad you had the courage to try something new
- Impressed you had your limit and stuck to it
- Relieved as a former security person that you're improving package validation and will reap the rewards even if you don't notice
- Disappointed it wasn't before some seriously sketchy shit has gone down with RH and trickled down to fedora.
Finally
- Overjoyed as fuck if it seemed like an easy switch, but please correct me there.
Could you elaborate on the sketchy shit? I am literally about to switch from openSUSE to Fedora, is there anything I should be aware of? Thanks for your time.
id like to know too
All I need is a sudden jolt of "I need to test other distros", distro hop for a day or 2,and then end up back in my distro of choice. This happens every couple of months give or take.
Modern desktop enviroment design, and seamless updates like in macOS
Saturday for some
I'm on Nobara for 3 years now after spending a year on manjaro. Nobara is pretty sweet, performance is top of the line, its stable and I get packages decently fast.
But I hate not being able to use discover to update.
So I'd switch if something had a cooler fetch logo and was able to fix that.
I'm familiar with the linux system ive done gentoo and arch but why I use distros like nobara and fedora is because i can't be fucked to keep up with what the latest optimisation are and then implement them.
The ability to wake up the laptop from sleep.
Damn, do I regret going with Fedora. Anything newer than kernel 6.10 (which I salvaged from Fedora 39) and my laptop doesn't wake up from sleep anymore.
But changing distros is a hassle and idiot me went with a single partition for system and data, so migrating to another distro requires me to actually backup everything, so I haven't done it yet.
what or if you have it takes for you to want to switch to a different distro?
Any meaningful difference that improves my use. I'm a pragmatist, not a distro zealot.
Moved away from Ubuntu due to SNAP. Never looked back.