Which Distribution cured your Distrohopping?

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For me it's LMDE6, I love how stable it is, I have now 70 days of uptime and it's still as fast as on the first day. trough linuxmint repo, I get the latest cinnamon packages and firefox etc. trough flatpak I don't really miss any software. Also the base system is as robust as debian stable.
Which Distro cured you from hopping?
 


I don't know if there is any real cure for Distro hoping :) I just like to try out new release. But I pretty much come back to Mint or LMDE or Debian.
 
I currently run about 7 distro's, but Fedora has been my daily driver for about 5 years.
 
tinfoil-hat said:
which flavour? there are multible
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Good point, for desktop, Fedora 40 KDE/Plasma.

However, I'm doing command line stuff on my server, more than I use the desktop.
For that, Fedora 40 Server.
 
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Which Distro cured you from hopping?
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Sorry but I don't suffer from distro hopping.

When I was still Windows user I carefully examined various distros and desktops by reading reports online and did a lot of
"top 10" style google searches to determine what I'll be using.

This led me Debian/KDE and I stick with this and have no plans to change the combo because almost everything works the way I want, and the very few bugs I noticed so far are bearable and not an issue.
 
Slackware and Debian ended the distro hopping for me.

These 2 distro's are rock solid. Once I had their package management system's down 'efficiently' the ease of use and enjoying Linux was considerably easier.
 
I'm going to say that the answer, for me, is Lubuntu. However, I still use Mint on a computer and sometimes play with other distros - though usually in a VM.
 
For me it was openSUSE. 20 years ago. I still play with other distros in VMs. Four others at the moment.
 
What stopped me Distro hopping was Kali Linux KDE. The forensic parts are really good for finding faults and errors and more. I like to fiddle around to find out how things work and to add a few bits here and there. I had tried many Distros and just found four, Manjaro, Debian, Parrot and Kali that fitted me well. I settled with Kali because it has the most forensic systems in place for me. One plus with Kali Linux is that it does not break as much as others with updates.
 
NONE

« Fix once, Break many » proves true again and again and again. But at least it's FREE and there's always a new spin waiting...
 
I was never Distrohopping, I tried Mint and Ubuntu when I was moving from Windows because people suggested those to me. But then I made my own research and in theory Debian was what I was looking for, the social contract and their reputation played a role so I hopped to Debian 10. Later I found out that I can depend on it for serious tasks since it is very reliable. I have found a superior to Windows OS which was my initial goal
 
Never had the distro-hopping bug. Of course when I first switched to Linux I did try out a few distros and desktops first before settling on one.
 
ron.alan said:
Never had the distro-hopping bug. Of course when I first switched to Linux I did try out a few distros and desktops first before settling on one.
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Which one did you settle on?
 
kc1di said:
Which one did you settle on?
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Linux Mint 17 with Mate. At some point a few years back I made the switch to a Devuan based distro, still with Mate. That doesn't count as distro-hopping, does it? :)
 
Learned on Slackware for a short time, then Redhat until they abandoned the free market after RH9, then switched to Debian 3 and KDE way back (Early 2000's maybe) and other than using XFCE on some performance-challenged boxes (Raspberrys) have stayed with it until now. At the moment I am slowly bringing up a Linux box with Db/KDE to eventually replace my Apple programming desktop, as the fruit company becomes ever more hostile to code not approved by their gatekeeper.
Tried many of them over the years, but never used any for real use except Debian.
 
CptKrf said:
Learned on Slackware for a short time, then Redhat until they abandoned the free market after RH9, then switched to Debian 3 and KDE way back (Early 2000's maybe) and other than using XFCE on some performance-challenged boxes (Raspberrys) have stayed with it until now. At the moment I am slowly bringing up a Linux box with Db/KDE to eventually replace my Apple programming desktop, as the fruit company becomes ever more hostile to code not approved by their gatekeeper.
Tried many of them over the years, but never used any for real use except Debian.
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I followed a similar path to yours started out on Slackware also then Redhat, remember when you could get Redhat in a boxed set at my office supply store, until like you said they went to Fedora, Then went to Mandrake for a bit but distro hopped for a few years. Finally settled on Debian and Mint But have used many distros over the years. Always end up back on Debian, Bookworm now. It's just been solid for me. And KDE. Liked mint but they dropped KDE some time back, and even though KDE can be installed on mint is a mix of Mint and Kubuntu. I still like to try out other distros though so never been cured of the hopping bug.
 
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kc1di said:
I followed a similar path to yours started out on Slackware also then Redhat, remember when you could get Redhat in a boxed set at my office supply store,
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Actually, I fondly remember the days when you would buy a book at Barns or Books-a-Million (from an entire section for computers) about Linux and it always came with three CDS in the back for some version of Redhat, mostly 7.x. I had a pile of RH book-supplied disks, and probably still have them stuffed in the back of my storage. Those were the fun days - No viruses, Gatekeepers, copy protection, ads on your desktop, UEFI... I will stop here, but the time was simpler and far less dangerous and if your system crashed, you knew exactly who caused the problem.
 
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