Ubuntu -> Fedora -> Debian stable (and lots of flatpaks) for my desktop. Ubuntu has only gotten worse with age, and I got tired of being on the leading edge and just want stuff to work (and I use ZFS so I don't want rapidly upgrading kernels). For my home server Ubuntu -> Centos -> Almalinux
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Mandrake > Ubuntu > Debian > Mint > Arch > Artix
Settled on Artix for openrc and all the aur goodness
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Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware, Suse, Gentoo, Sourcemage, etc...
I've settled for Manjaro 6 years ago and never saw a reason to change. I'm also super happy with Debian on my server.
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Ubuntu -> Pop!_OS -> EndeavorOS
Windows, then Ubuntu when I started Computer Science, then Linux Mint, and I've been hopping back and forth between both but mostly Mint, then for a while also KDE Neon, then I decided to leave my comfort zone and tried Fedora, and never looked back.
Fedora
Like everyone i started on Windows.
From there -> Mint -> Ubuntu 16 -> Fedora -> Ubuntu 18 -> elementary -> Ubuntu 18 (again) -> Ubuntu 22 -> EndeavourOS
I've god damn I love EndeavourOS. Now just hop between the supported DEs instead :)
I went from Windows XP -> FreeBSD -> Debian -> several Ubuntu flavors -> MacOS -> Manjaro on my desktop. I ended up switching to MacOs after countless upgrade and graphics card issues in the early 2010s but switched back to Linux again after getting tired of Apples more and more restrictive environment.
For servers I've switched around between FreeBSD, Debian and Ubuntu at home and various Redhat based distros at work.
Right now I use Ubuntu because it just works for my Kubernetes home cluster and Redhat at work because its well supported for commercial software.
Fedora silverblue or rather the ublue image.
I am not a power user and do casual gaming, document reading and processing, mail checking and video watching so the ublue main image provides the simplicity and stability I need.
SuSE Linux (a German distribution), some niche, single CD distrubution, Debian for a while and, finally, since ~2006, Gentoo on my servers and since ~2015 Gentoo as my desktop.
Debian and its derivatives never felt right for me. I find too many drawbacks with binary packages (non-configurable build options, therefore dependencies that can't be disabled, relying on humans to keep ABI compatiblity, trouble integrating my own packages or unstable versions) and I just don't like systemd.
It's weird, I've seen more than enough of those "Install Gentoo" memes, but I find it the most pleasant system to run in the long term.
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I distrohopped so many times I can't even remember everything I used.
Now I'm just on Fedora for my desktops, and Rocky on my server. Everything (mostly) works, so I'm fine with it.
Debian: stability
Same. After 20 years of distro hopping and living on latest releases, Debian feels like home with the least amount of broken packages and general overall panic.
Same! Distrohopped for years, but for ~15 years Debian has been rock solid for both desktop and home minimal server.
Kubuntu on some machines, KDE Neon on others. Ubuntu Server on my home servers.
Fedora. I love Debian as well, but both of my computers needed more recent libraries, and now I'm curious to see how far I can take these installs.
Opensuse tw
Debian + Gnome: I don't game and have a limited wifi connection and Debian gives me stability, ease of use and I don't need to run an update more than once a week
Started with Arch for 2 years -> Fedora Workstation for 1,5 years -> Fedora Silverblue until now
openSUSE Tumbleweed, because real life got a little too much and I wanted something that just worked.
Windows -> macos -> pop os -> debian -> fedora ↓ Now
- linux mint(desktop)
- slackware(laptop)
- arch linux(Kvm/Qemu for gaming)
- Netbsd(older hardware/for fun)
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I hopped around in Debian-Land for a while before switching to Manjaro, converting it to Arch later on.
Now I stay with Arch because it just works and doesn't break on me.
Windows -> MacOS -> Manjaro -> Arch
I'm in love with arch so I won't be switching anytime soon.
Fedora Silverblue. Solid like Debian but doesn't break and require reinstall when I tinker around.
Arch btw
Same, though I'm (sorta) not using it now, and I don't know that I could've been considered a hopper.
I started with Ubuntu then gave Gentoo a shot. Got tired of the maintenance and went with LMDE. Switched back to Windows when I switched my gaming from console to PC.
A few years ago I read about Proton and decided to check my Steam library against ProtonDB. All the games I still played (and most that I had stopped) were rated gold or higher. At that point I was done with Windows, at least for machines I own, and gave Arch a shot.
I stuck with that until my power supply died and will be going back to it once I can afford to build a good PC. For now I'm just using my Steam Deck and hooking it up to a dock when I'm at my desk. It runs SteamOS which is Arch-based but a different experience for sure. I can still use Pacman and the AUR, but with some hefty caveats that almost make it not worth it.
LXQT on Arch
Never really distro hopped. Went from DOSLinux to Slackware and stayed put as my main. Having multiple machines, some multi booters, meant I had/tried a bunch of others. Vector Linux, Xubuntu, Debian Wheezy, several Arch-based (up to Garuda), various BSDs, and two unices (OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana, IRIX). Got an old ancient ToughBook (Pentiun II, 192MB RAM) with Arch before systemd collecting dust.
[ Those machines had multiple Windows versions also from Win2k to Win7 including XP x64 Edition ] Dem were da days. 🥰
Currently, Main laptop: Slackware. 2nd laptop: MX Linux, Void Linux, OpenBSD. Mini PC: Slint (Slackware-based).
Well, for the mini PC I did distro hop. Went through a lot trying to find the right one. Most were Arch-based (but not Arch itself) and they would indeed break at the worst time. Nature of bleeding edge rolling release I guess. Mostly I was looking for something non-systemd. Eventually settled on Slint.
Ubuntu.
I jumped from Ubuntu to Fedora to Netrunner to Arch to Gentoo to Mint then back to Ubuntu.
Did I regret it? Nah, I learned alot with my adventure but these days I just prefer the common distro denominator. Although to be fair my Ubuntu isn't exactly a vanilla Ubuntu as I did add some changes I see fit.