Probably like many of you i switched to Linux. I first used it in 2012 when i heard about it in School. Back then i used Ubuntu, but could not figure it out how to play my Games on CD, DVDs and Steam so i switched back to Windows.
Over the Years i often tried it out again but had various problems with it.
Now, thanks to the Trump Donald, i have a real reason to no longer use Microshaft Proudcts. Our Boycott!
So far i tried Linux Mint, KDE Neon, Kubuntu, ZorinOS, PopOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Gnu Guix, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Arch, Antergos. That is over 10 years.
What i found out:
- i dont like gnome, i find the ui weird. xfce is too cobbled together imo and ugly, lxqt too.
- i like kde and budgie
- im currently on kubuntu and gnu guix :)
Im too much distrohopping bevause of small annoyances. its not a good time spent! lol
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Honestly, I have only ever used Ubuntu and that’s it. I am seriously baffled by people that keep distro hopping because of non critical reasons. I mean that is quite the hassle, isn’t it?
Ubuntu is decent, looks decent, gives me what I expected.
I only ever would switch to arch, just to annoy people that I meet by telling them that I use arch btw.
i got annoyed by snaps
I switched around 7-8 years ago and pledged to stick it out despite any annoyances.
About a year later I needed to use windows for a job and found it incredibly annoying to use. So much of it is just what you are used to.
These days I love gnome and tend to use OpenSUSE or Fedora
Started testing Linux OS around 2003. Never really commited, until late 2020, where I removed Windows and switch to Arch Linux full-time.
Now, after 4 years of Arch, I switched to Fedora Workstation. I kinda miss the Arch repos and the AUR, but Fedora is doing a lot of work that I would have had to do myself on Arch.
Well, you gotta sacrifice something to gain something. Equivalent exchange and stuff.
Maybe something arch based works for you, like Manjaro or Endeavour. You will have Arch repos, but those distros come with some nice features to make your life easier.
Using something arch-based but not arch while also using the AUR feels like opening the door to problems. The AUR is specifically made with arch linux in mind and often package versions don’t align between arch and arch-based distros.
Also, I lost trust in Manjaro. They accidently let their SSL cert expire multiple times and told their users to revert system time to have a temporary fix. They also shipped an unstable asahi-kernel to their users without talking to the asahi devs beforehand, as well as accidentally DDoS-ing the AUR with a bug in a pamac version (as far as I know that happened twice). It just feels like their management board has / had some problems.
These may have all been issues of the past, but with the massive amount of distributions out there, I’d probably walk a lot of different roads before ever touching Manjaro again.
Switched 14 years ago and never looked back. When friends ask me for help with their windows machines I’m astounded how bad it’s gotten. Advertisements, forced tracking, forced account registration, dark patterns. Back in my day™️ people mostly switched for the performance and stability. Windows is no longer an operating system but an excuse to sell value-added services.
I think I’ve been using Linux for something like 20 years now. And Free Software (in general) has given me a lot of useful tools and nice things. Though it felt a lot more like an adventure to me when I was young. It still sometimes does, but I don’t think I spend that much time distro hopping and messing with application software and games these days. And a lot of things got easier. I feel it has always been the best option for me. I know my way around, my computer works most of the times and I’m able to do stuff with it. Occasionally I’ll have a look at other people’s computers and fix their printers or little woes and I’m always glad I don’t use those kinds of operating systems on my machines… 😅
I’m on Linux Mint since a couple of years. It took me some time to set it up and I don’t understand how you guys distrohop so casually. I’m not a huge customizer, but it takes me days to install apps, connect network drives, change settings and synchronize accounts!?
But I love Linux and I will not go back. I make music with Bitwig, edit video with DaVinci Resolve, pictures in Gimp, LibreOffice, Evolution, Syncthing, it’s all great! I ran into some minor hickups and challenges but managed to fix them reading on the internet. Yet I still feel like there is so much I don’t understand. Managed to play some games, my Nvidia was never a problem. But I’m not a huge gamer so this wasn’t a stress test. Flatpak is cool but updates are huge, a couple of GB every couple of days. I’d like to try an unmutable distro but I’m too scared to set it up and learn about it, never change a running system. So I’ll stick with Mint for now. :)Well, i started around '98 or '99 with PTS Linux (this one: https://archive.org/details/pts-1.2), and - with some duel-boot interludes - i never did go back to the Redmond-Plague. Today i run a variety of OS, mostly Debian based but also FreeDOS and some other exotics on various systems.
At work i currently run a Windows 11 PC (you sometimes HAVE to use what your users are opressed with) and on another System Fedora Silverblue.
Seeing this CD reminded me of Knoppix. I tested that in school when I was 16 or 17.
Your picture really makes me feel old. Kernel 2.0? KDE 1.0? GIMP 1? Feels so far away, it must have been a different life.
I get this feeling every time a cover of an computer magazine i bought in yesteryear appears somewhere on lemmy and i realize this issue was sold in the year 198x…
I started in the previous millennium. My longest running distro was Ubuntu. Now I switched to Mint Debian Edition.
why did you switch?
Snap was an issue, but mostly I like being closer to the really free and stable OS Debian.
I tried Kubuntu once. It was so much less annoying than Windows, that I basically forgot to go back to Windows and used it as my main OS ever since.
I started using Linux on and off a little before starting college, almost 20 years ago. For studying and working (I’m an IT engineer) was a very robust solution and I saw things getting better within time for the non initiated.
On a personal level, however, I was still on the Windows side mostly for gaming. Luckily enough, when my gaming laptop was forced to update to Windows 11 and problems started, I knew a distro hopping journey was about to begin.
I tried focusing mostly on gaming, but I also needed some general purpose tools. I started with Mint but oddly enough, it didn’t suit me well. I was thinking about Kubuntu, but before that, I tried Nobara and, out of nostalgia, openSuse Tumbleweed (openSuse was my first distro ever)
Thing is that I haven’t had a reason yet to switch again. All my games from Steam run like a breeze, so for now I just focus on enjoying and evangelizing people to make the switch.
All good, I just expanded the Linux partition that I set up a couple of years ago as a “test”. It’s sadly been a couple of months now that my GPU just dies randomly on some fullscreen games, an instability that I can’t replicate on the windows side of hell…
Edit: Pop_OS
Broke my teeth with endeavour because of the bluetooth. Using bazzite for the moment and it’s fine since.
