don’t worry, when you get tired of distro-hopping, Debian will still be there for you
Is this your current driver?
yep, plain old boring Debian Stable with Xfce
In my student years, I always ran with Xubuntu on a used thinkpad.
Although I’m a gnome guy these days, I still need Thunar as my default file manager. It’s nearly perfect…
Extremely happy. Debian Stable. Every time I open the lid of my laptop, it’s working and ready to go. Wonderfully boring and exceedingly reliable.
Gotta love debian stable. It has it’s kinks, but goddammit every day you boot up it’s the same as yesterday, until next major version
Happy lemmyversary
Thanks my dude!
I’m very content. Stopped distro-hopping a few years ago and settled on EndeavourOS.
Same here, couldn’t be happier (been using it for about 6 months).
I’m running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
99% happy, once in a blue moon there is a library issue during an update, I have to wait a few days, that’s it.
Very solid KDE experience, all of the things I wanted to do worked out of the box. Very solid.
I’m enjoying Linux Mint so far
I’m thinking I may hope around to a distro using a newer kernel but meh
Mint is pretty nice
Edit: My “meh” is because Mint has been super stable for me and I’m not really sure that the effort to switch distros is worth it given that my systems are already rock solid.
Happy lemmyversary!
EndeavourOS. Arch, but easy to install. I’m thrilled with it, although I suspect I’d be even happier if I’d have tried one of the convenience installers for the base. Endeavor is has prettier defaults, so less fussing with basic stuff.
Otherwise, I’m thrilled. I have Artix on my laptop, and while I like not having systemd on it, some things are a bit more kludgey, and I spend more time on maintenance and working to fill gaps. Like, there are not dinit entries for every service, and I have to write them myself; which is absurdly easy, but still. Maybe in a couple years Artix will be less of a chore; in the meantime I’m preferring EndesvorOS.
I do not like the frequency of reboots necessitated by kernel upgrades. I know that I could mask it, but IME that eventually causes problems with packages than make .ko kernel modules; it’s just more things to fail, and it makes me really wish Linus would have just based Linux on MINIX.
Anyway, I have 4 computers I deal with which are Debian based, and I never love Arch more than when I have to do something on Debian. Two are Mint, which are infected with flatpack, and I really hate those.
Gosh that’s a little personal, isn’t it?
my arch systems have been great for years now. had one breakage that was not my own fault though.
i also have some older thinkpads with endeavor and they’re working great as well.
i would distrohop but i’m too accostomed to the arch repos and aur at this point.
Since I installed Arch 14 years ago, I’ve never looked back. I guess I’m happy with it!
Same! I’ve had the same Arch install since 2010. It has outlasted all the original hardware, except for the case and power supply.
For me Debian is living the purpose I gave it, resisting me messing around or at least being easy for me to fix.
Really happy with EndeavourOS for the last few months - started daily driving Linux in October last year.
blendOS has caught my attention though, I’m very interested in using immutable distros more and more.
My distro hoping days are about done. I started with ubuntu -> KDE Neon -> Arch -> Manjaro -> Solus -> Manjaro -> Pop_OS -> Fedora.
I’m sticking with fedora because I love the ideology behind the project and the pace of updates works perfect for me. Not too fast but still very up-to-date. Also I used to hate gnome but after using fedora I love it, I realized I didn’t hate gnome but hated all the clunk other distro would add to it. I am interested in NixOS but for now I’m gonna continue to stick with fedora, might hop to fedora silverblue tho.
I’ve been with Fedora for awhile now because I like the project and how it pushes things forward. Changed to Silverblue and never returned.
Now I’m using Bluefin because I like the little tweaks on top of Silverblue. Would recommend.
Definitely gotta try it out. Been on the same install for years and I need a fresh start
Fedora 40 KDE. I like it. Longest I have been on the same distro in years.
Recently tried Kubuntu. It was able to successfully connect to my docking station with double 4k monitors connected too, which some other distros failed at. So pretty happy with that I suppose.
All in all, I still find most distros to be hit and miss with issues. There’s always something that makes it meh. Like missing features or inconveniences.
Sometimes I think the Linux community should try to consolidate more to focus on a few well-working distros rather than the large amount of distros that are currently there, each with their own set of issues.
I run Kinoite on my Laptop and Silverblue on my desktop. After years of “I use arch, BTW”, I decided I needed something that Just Works; and let me tell you, Fedora has not failed to impress.
