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involution@reddit

about the same for me but started in the late 90s. I don't change distros unless they get in my way. I've used about 7 different linux distros and 5 different unices as workstations - If they stop doing what I want, I'll spend the time to migrate but my \~ follows me. The only things I really 'customize' are my text editor and terminal - I never did understand the whole 'ricing' fad. I suspect things are easier when you consciously avoid deviating from default configurations - at least I think this has helped me avoid needlessly wasting time.

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gosand@reddit

This is pretty much my path since '98. Redhat5.1 (Gnome/KDE) -> Mandrake (KDE) -> Kubuntu (KDE/XFCE) -> Xubuntu (XFCE) -> Mint(XFCE) -> Devuan (XFCE). I only reasons I ever switched was when I need to switch.

I do a little configuring of XFCE to my liking, but that's pretty much it, other than installing the tools I prefer. Life is good.

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gaijoan@reddit

+1 on ricing. Function over form IMO.

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neonsphinx@reddit

Hell yeah. I used to distro hop annually or so. Using mint cinnamon for the past 6-7 years, and really love the pack of headaches I've had. It might not be "optimal" in some areas, but optimizing usually means breaking things and having to fix them.

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phobug@reddit

Amazing, a heroes journey in modern terms!

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ptpcg@reddit

Absolute cinema

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turbokungfu@reddit

I laughed. I cried. I’m a fan.

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jeremyckahn@reddit

I've been daily driving Ubuntu for a few years now. Its been the only distro I've really used. I can't imagine switching to a different distro! It's Linux and and it does Linux things. That's all I want. :)

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vim1729@reddit

Ubuntu is fine but I just use Debian, love its stability and community. Its just clean with no say of corporations, no snapcrafts or anything. Just a vanilla linux experience with the biggest package repository

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UPPERKEES@reddit

You confuse stability with slow upgrades. Fedora is also stable and gets fixes and features fast because upstream still supports the software. A big software repository, full of unmaintained packages, yes.

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Fox3High369@reddit

I use both, people say ubuntu is stable because of the slower updates. But I experienced the opposite. Fedora rock solid, ubuntu stable but small issues here and there.

Maybe 20 years ago it was the case to wait longer for updates but currently, I think fedora got it right.

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vim1729@reddit

Fedora lol it doesnt have reputation for being very stable, unmaintained? With every debian release most packages are updated to their newer stable versions. You must try Debian first before saying these things. I have tried Arch,Fedora,Void,Ubuntu and Nix and Debian us by far the best community maintained extremely stable distribution. Fedora is just a test bench for their RHEL, their repository doesn’t even have half the packages Debian has and redhat still has most of the say in what happens to fedora, opensuse is killing yast etc? You cant trust them corporations to do things which are in favourable to user. Fedora is free because it make millions if not billions for IBM and redhat. Debian is community maintained and doesnt listen to any corporations.

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UPPERKEES@reddit

I have tried Debian, because people were praising it's stability. But things were messy. Then I went to Ubuntu, it was better, but still mehhh. Then, 10 years ago, I switched to Fedora. And damn, everything just works. I can just focus on my work instead of fixing my own laptop. Using Silverblue by the way. Rock solid.

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I_Arman@reddit

I switched away from Debian to Ubuntu just because it was so slow to jump to new versions - though I use KDE and no snap, so it's a lot closer to Debian than the usual Ubuntu user, I suppose.

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jeremyckahn@reddit

I've considered the switch to Debian for similar reasons, but I feel like it wouldn't be his turnkey as Ubuntu (at least on my hardware, Framework 13).

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gaijoan@reddit

Good for you! I'm also on the distro I like, and have never felt like hopping.

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Bl1ndBeholder@reddit

Yeh, once I landed on my ideal distro, I haven't deviated. I don't regret my distro hopping phase, because I feel like that's part of everyone's journey. (Or at least a majority). You don't know what you're going to like until you learn what you don't.

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noisyboy@reddit

I used Ubuntu for a very long time. Switched to Pop!_OS for their excellent Nvidia integration but they diverged from Ubuntu somewhat (not dist upgrades in parallel but backports). Had a case of a borked system so took the opportunity to go back to latest Ubuntu but the quality has definitely regressed - many paper cuts. Decided to try out Fedora (KDE edition) even if it felt weird switching away from debs - honestly it is just great. The most seamless experience I've had since the days of Ubuntu Dapper Drake. Everything just works and works cohesively. Fingers crossed I think I'll just stick to it as far as I can.

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Murky-Breadfruit-671@reddit

i really liked ubuntu and got the urge to try this mint cinnamon i'd heard so much about, and it looks like old school windows, and it runs like a striped ass ape (no idea why i know that phrase, but it means its fast - thanks dad for that one) too!

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emad07306@reddit

What would you suggest to someone who wants to learn Linux from scratch thank you

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FLJerseyBoy@reddit

Also: note that you can (at least with Mint, maybe other Ubuntu flavors) just run it from a CD-ROM or flash drive to see how it feels. There are limitations to what you can do with the test-drive version, but it'll give you a good idea of the experience.

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emad07306@reddit

Thanks 🙏👍

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SparkStormrider@reddit

as setwindowtext suggested, just pick one and go with it. Learn it inside and out, don't fear breaking it, if you do, there's great learning opportunity to get it working again. Lots of folk for workstation use like to start with Linux Mint. But don't try to stay tied to just one distro. Go try other distros see their strengths and weaknesses. But to get yourself a bit grounded at first start with Linux Mint, Ubuntu, or perhaps Debian. Or give Fedora a shot. Also give yourself a project to do such as trying to installing a webserver so you can put a page up on it. Snag yourself a raspberry pi or something similar and put Linux on it and go from there. Tons of projects out there to get you going and learning.

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emad07306@reddit

What does it mean when someone says don't fear breaking it please advice I don't do not understand that part

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ASC4MWTP@reddit

Broadly, it means if you make good backups, there's no reason to fear "breaking" your installation by trying something new or by experimenting with what you have. That often helps someone learn something new. It's something to keep in mind, if playing around with your OS is one of your pleasures.

Recovering is, at worst, just a process of reinstalling the OS and reloading your backup. Maybe 30 minutes to an hour from the point where you realize that you've borked your system, to the point where you're done with a full reinstall and reload of your backup and operational again.

Lots of people seem to end up with what amounts to a hobby of Distro Fiddling. Nothing wrong with that, if the goal is to learn, in depth, your particular flavor of OS, or because you enjoy customizing and it makes you happy. Make sure you've got good backups and have at it.

But if your goal is to accomplish other sorts of things, the OS that's best for you is the one that works when you install it, feels comfortable to you in use, and then stays the hell out f the way and facilitates accomplishing what you really want to do with your computer. At that point the OS (and distro, where applicable) you use is completely irrelevant.

Windows? Mac? Some flavor of Linux? Pick one. They all work. The endless debate over which OS, which distro, which hardware is as futile as arguing which ice cream flavor is the "best". The answer is always, "It depends..."

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emad07306@reddit

I do have about 20 gigabytes, on the same computer that I have windows do I still have to remove windows please advise thank you

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ASC4MWTP@reddit

You don't "have" to remove Windows. Many folks dual boot, and select which OS to use when they start up. NOT dual booting is generally simpler, long term. YMMV.

The short answer for so many questions, is. "it depends". It's a question best answered by first determining what your main goal is with your computer, then choosing a path to get to that goal.

For many, many people the main goal is pretty simple: online, web browsing, email, banking and shopping, and little more than those. In those circumstances, buy a chromebook, Dead simple to use, updated, safely, often. If worse comes to worst and you don't know what to do, just powerwash, and when it's done, enter your credentials again and you're good to go. Cheap, easy, meets the goal, and no fuss at all.

For anything more, you've basically got 3 choices: Mac, Windows, or Linux.

Gaming your main thing? Still probably "best" on Windows (meaning it's what lots of game producers expect people will use). Thanks to Steam, however, gaming on Linux is improving rapidly.

Want lots of flexibility and apps that a chromebook can't provide, but also lots of "insulation" from the nuts and bolts of computer use? Buy a Mac, but you're gonna pay lots more for the "privilege" of Apple hardware and also be far more locked-in. Apple's main goal is keeping their users totally within their ecosystem.

Want extreme flexibility, total control of your OS, and the benefits of an OS ecosystem that has variations which run everything from tiny IOT devices to literally almost every supercomputer in the world? Then it's Linux.

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emad07306@reddit

My main goal is to learn Linux learn the Linux environment thanks again

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ASC4MWTP@reddit

You're welcome. With that goal, I'd just bite the bullet and abandon Windows entirely. It's what worked for me some 20+ years ago. Pick a Linux distro that's fairly mainstream and then go for it. If your goal includes potentially finding work via Linux knowledge, it may also be best to choose a distro that is also commercially supported, Like Fedora, because it's a direct path to Red Hat Linux, or Ubuntu, because it's gained a fair bit of business use.

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Neopacificus@reddit

Be ready to lose all your data and wipe out everything

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handlebartender@reddit

As u/skaldk suggested, I would also recommend Linux Mint. That's the short answer.

The longer answer will depend on things such as:

- do you have a dedicated machine, or will you want to dual-boot?
- are there any apps you use regularly that you absolutely must have on Linux?
- do you have the option of running it in a VM?

It's been a good number of years since I've done this, but at one point in the past I had a PC set up so that I could boot either Linux or Windows from the GRUB menu, but if I got as far as the Windows partition, that also offered me the option to continue booting into Linux or boot into Windows. But that's not an approach I would recommend for you immediately.

The safe, nondestructive approach would be to get a short list of 3-5 distros that people have been recommending to you, find the "live CD" image for each, burn each to a DVD, pick one, boot into it, and play around. At any point you can just say "I'm bored" or "this sux", pop the disc out of the drive and reboot, and you're back into Windows. Or, pop the next DVD into your drive and reboot.

If continually swapping DVDs is something you want to avoid, check out www.ventoy.net as an option. Format a USB thumb drive with Ventoy, mount it, copy the ISOs of your choice to the drive in the appropriate dir, reboot into Ventoy, select an OS and go.

Bear in mind that your overall experience will likely be influenced by the desktop that that particular distro defaults to, eg, Gnome vs KDE vs a number of others. The actual package management details will be something you're not likely to care about for a while (despite the protests of many of us, lol). And that's fine. Over time, you'll start leaning into one as a particular favourite. Then one day, something might go terribly wrong (eg, after a major update/upgrade) and you'll be sat there wondering wtf. Possibly to the point of saying "screw this, I've been wanting to try this other distro out for a while now". A tale as old as time, lol

Everyone here making recommendations are doing so based on 2 forces: positive experiences, and negative experiences. That's it in a nutshell.

If I had to make one single recommendation, it would be to figure out as early as possible how to back up files to another device. Ideally network storage, but an attached USB device is a good start. I don't mean applications, I mean actual files, documents, mp3's, videos, pictures, etc. Backup options/strategies are many, whether it's a simple "copy from A to B" or something more automated and complete. This way, even if your Linux choice crashes and burns, you've still got your irreplaceable files; you can pick another distro to install, mount your USB drive, copy them back, and heave a sigh of relief.

Before I forget: once you pick a distro, note that you'll have a few options for running VMs on it. And being a Linux-on-Linux VM, it can be surprisingly snappy.

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emad07306@reddit

Thanks 🙏 for the advice I do have a very good computer I bought it for 4500 Corsair, do so just I install on it or use virtual please advise thanks again

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handlebartender@reddit

So first of all, I know nothing about a 4500 Corsair. Or pretty much any hardware you might happen to name. I’m less concerned with the branding and more concerned with the fundamentals. If it’s a recent vintage with at least 4 GB RAM and a working hard drive with at least 10 GB, it’ll be a fine machine for learning. If it has a lot more disk and RAM, then it’ll be a more pleasant experience.

Next, do you already have Windows installed on it? Do you care if you completely erase the disk? If you don’t care (eg, it’s a spare machine) then I wouldn’t bother fiddling with a VM at all. Just download an ISO and burn it to a DVD, load it up and reboot / power on. Or the likely more popular choice, burn it to an unused USB thumb drive.

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emad07306@reddit

Ok thanks 🙏👍

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aqjo@reddit

Learn Linux TV on YouTube.

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mmmboppe@reddit

YouTube

FML

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emad07306@reddit

Ok thanks 🙏

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Brillegeit@reddit

Do everything in virtual machines. Make snapshots.

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skaldk@reddit

Linux Mint.

Install, use, done.

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RebTexas@reddit

Linux from scratch

Try Linux from scratch (LFS) :)

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Restruh@reddit

Disregard this comment, u/emad07306. Linux From Scratch (LFS) is, unequivocally, the hardest choice you can make. Try the most widely used distributions: Mint, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora... Perhaps, if your computer allows it, install a VM and use one of the distributions I mentioned above. Do the stuff you usually would, but in the VM.

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bapfelbaum@reddit

Literally anything works, it's unlikely you will find your home right away anyway.

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setwindowtext@reddit

Start using it.

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Moo-Crumpus@reddit

I like it, have been using arch since 2003-12-01.

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Known-Watercress7296@reddit

Have you considered running beta grade crapware with eyebleach on a tamagotchi style base with no partial upgrade support that could snap at any moment?

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Abject-Ad9398@reddit

Why did I read that and now I'm left feeling strangely aroused?

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UntoldUnfolding@reddit

Wtf is a “partial upgrade”?

I don’t understand why people pretend like they need the distribution to handle their operating system for them. Did you switch to Linux to keep thinking like a non-programmer?

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Known-Watercress7296@reddit

wtf indeed

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_Screw_The_Rules_@reddit

Damn, that sounds awesome!

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Jff_f@reddit (OP)

No, but the way you put it really makes me want to try!!

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FarJury6956@reddit

My last change was Switch from mandrake to Ubuntu

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Icy-Childhood1728@reddit

TBF, once you found your confort zone and you know why you picked this distro over the others, distro hopping is plain stupid. Linux is just Linux, you could treat Linux Mint the same way you'd treat Gentoo and compile everything from tarball.

For instance, I use Arch on my main station because I like tweaking it to the peak and I like having control over everything that is installed there. I also don't mind having to fix it once in a month when some packages fucks something. I don't feel like switching distribution would give me anything more from Arch as if something exists on another distribution, I could just install and configure it there.

I use ubuntu server on some production environment because it just works and has up to date enough packages for what I do with them. No need for cutting edge stuff and if by any chance there was a need, I could just compile it there. It's not as if compiling stuff was only a Gentoo or linux from scratch thing.

My last point is that every distribution that are just forks of another fork (every Ubuntu-based distribution, Every Fedora-like, Every Arch+something [this doesn't apply to Debian-->Ubuntu for obvious reasons]) are quite useless. Just take the base distribution and install what you need there... Adding some intermediate to maintain packages between the OS and the software is just asking for troubles at some point.

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jacek75@reddit

+1 for me it's Fedora Workstation

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Jff_f@reddit (OP)

This is going to be an unpopular comment,bit here goes…

For my personal computer I switched to Mac. (No regrets). But I do have a Windows 11 and I have Fedora 42 in a VMs in case I need them. I love Fedora. Works really well.

I do have a home server that uses Ubuntu LTS. Can’t remember which version, but it’s still LTSing, so it’s good, I guess.

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Puzzleheaded-Sky2284@reddit

I switched from my macbook to a windows laptop (hp elitebook dragonfly g4). Beautiful hardware but Windows isn't great - won't make that mistake again

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mind_pictures@reddit

ok, what do you like about fedora? :)

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dennycraine@reddit

I dropped my last Mac during the early m chip transition. I had to support some really old rails and it was just a huge pain to get anything working. now, if I was buying, I’d think about adding a MacBook back in. I’m not sure how I’d handle the lack of real tiling but I’m sure I could manage.

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armady1@reddit

I'm switching back to Mac as well this next week for a laptop. Security, hardware capability and software support are just too good to pass up.

Still using a security focused distro on my PC for now, maybe I'll move to windows or bazzite soon. No idea though.

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gaijoan@reddit

Unpopular? Whatever floats yor boat...personally I'm done with apple and I'm never going there again, but if you're happy with it then that's what counts.

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jemimamymama@reddit

This is it. Just be happy with whatever makes you happy and productive, so long as you're not going online and in public belittling people who steer away from certain companies/OS/distros for their own reasons.

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jemimamymama@reddit

This is it. Just be happy with whatever makes you happy and productive, so long as you're not going online and in public belittling people who steer away from certain companies/OS/distros for their own reasons.

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dark_mode_everything@reddit

I've been using Mint for 10+ years, never had the need to switch except to experiment with the debian mint. I tried Fedora once but quickly gave up because I didn't like the way it did updates. Reminded me of windows a bit too much.

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arcoast@reddit

I used to be Team Ubuntu but when snaps started to take off and especially when Firefox got ungodly slow I jumped to Arch, got fed up with Arch and tried Fedora and been there since.

I like the release cadence and getting up to date packages, especially with KDE and it's fairly rapid development.

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TwistedNinja15@reddit

Fedora 42 for the win! What a smooth experience honestly its wonderful

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Quiet-Arm-641@reddit

Did you know that “Ubuntu” is Swahili for “can’t install Debian” ?

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araujoms@reddit

Sounds like you're a Debian user.

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etyrnal_@reddit

fvckyeah

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toadi@reddit

Using linux when kernel was 0.x....

Slackware -> Redhat (pre-fedora) -> Debian -> Gentoo -> Ubuntu -> Macos -> Arch

Yes I side tracked a bit as I got tired of crappy laptops and issues of stuff not working. These days I don't hop much just arch on a thinkpad. Have an old one t480 and new one t14 gen6. Everything works out of the box. All tools and workflows I need work. I don't thinker much with it. It all works and I'm productive.

I also have a razer rtx4090. Tried linux on it but razers are crappy laptops for this and for gaming always had issues with the gpu and fans. So I just run windows on it. I mostly use it to game. I do have wsl2 with arch on it if I really need to do something and don't want to switch laptops at that moment.

In the end I stopped following the shiny new things and just use it as a tool to get my work done.

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jack1ndabox@reddit

Lmao the post that this is referencing was irritating to read.

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ZeroHolmes@reddit

Do you use Linux Mint?

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KidouSenshiGundam00@reddit

I was testing Fedora 42 with KDE on my Lenovo until the Motherboard decided to crap out on me 😭. But the experience I've had with it was amazing and will be my daily driver on my Desktop come Windows 10 EOL

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GexCodeRipper@reddit

Hello everyone!

For my part, I have trusted Linux Mint since 2016 and it has never disappointed me. I tried many other distros, like Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Mx, etc, etc... but for me day to day and working on backend development, nothing beats Mint.

Stable, no weird stuff, I don't know, it's so simple that I just forget about everything else and just use it. Of course, every day I throw 3 commands at it, apt update, apt upgrade and apt autoremove.

I have made a thousand modifications to it (from the kernel to blah blah blah) and it has never failed me.

So hey, I still choose Mint.

all the best, Gex

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IamGah@reddit

Tell me you don‘t have to use Citrix without telling me you use Citrix…

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freaxje@reddit

Been using Linux for 27 years, this is my story: apt(-get) update && apt(-get) upgrade

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mmmboppe@reddit

by which I conclude that it takes at least 33 years to learn building a proper Debian package from source. and that means I still got some time

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freaxje@reddit

Oh no I actually made several debian packages from source. Even maintained some of the official ones. But it's a lot of work. IMO rpm packages (spec files) are more easy.

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mmmboppe@reddit

a lot of work as in it feels unnecessarily complex?

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freaxje@reddit

I'm a software developer myself, and make-installing it into /opt is what I often did. Nowadays there are often better options (containers come to mind).

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handlebartender@reddit

I think that's also roughly around the time that I started regularly using Linux.

While I did get my hands on Yggdrasil (I wonder if I still have that media), I don't think I was bold enough to install it on the only PC I owned.

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Odd-Translator-2792@reddit

I tried switching to Devuan because of Systemd. That didn't work well for me. I guess nothing to be won tilting at that windmill.

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mmmboppe@reddit

still plenty of Systemd-free distros

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dhsc19@reddit

My therapist told me that distro hopping was usually indicative of a weak or non-existent father figure or an overbearing mother.

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mmmboppe@reddit

becoming a therapist is usually indicative of latent voyeurism :o)

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Jff_f@reddit (OP)

Hahaha. I actually laughed out loud with this.

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bobj33@reddit

Yeah. I never understand the people who are constantly distrohoppung

I installed Slackware in 1994. Moved to Red Hat in 1998. When they transitioned to Fedora I went along which I still run now.

I want something stable, up to date, and works. I don’t have the time to constantly mess around or fix stuff

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mmmboppe@reddit

I'm so lucky for going in the opposite direction

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loserguy-88@reddit

It is the smelly nerd equivalent of new car smell.

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noisyboy@reddit

It is fun for people like me who are tinkerers by nature. However, as one gets older and time is in shorter supply due to commitments, stability and just works take priority. I'm in that camp now with Fedora and honestly, unless they mess up bigtime, I'm staying put.

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dennycraine@reddit

similar journey. I‘ve been tempted by arch and nix the past couple years. tried arch twice for about 4 hours and just swapped back because it solved nothing for me. nix though…. I can dig the fully declarative config concept but still doesn’t really solve any problem I haven’t already solved with config management tools.

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orcacomputers@reddit

That's a win

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T0PA3@reddit

That's your story and you're sticking to it

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maceion@reddit

I have using ' openSUSE LEAP' and its predecessors for at least two decades. No problem just works on the two computers in the house.

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seiha011@reddit

But you could have described it more briefly. ;-)

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Jff_f@reddit (OP)

I tried! I wanted to! … but the subreddit kept telling me I needed 200 characters minimum. :-(

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seiha011@reddit

👍😎

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Jak1977@reddit

I refresh windows more frequently than Linux

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cl4r17y@reddit

Been dualing fedora and suse for over a decade. 🙌

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Federal_Sock_N9TEA@reddit

This was an OPERA!

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skinnyraf@reddit

It was me for 15 years. I installed Debian in 2000 on my personal PC and the university PC that I was using for my PhD. I stayed with Debian for almost 20 years. It was Valve and Proton that forced me to look for alternatives, as Debian was lagging behind during the rapid evolution of gaming on Linux. I switched to Ubuntu and was happy with it for 6 years, until mixing optiscaler with VR on Linux broke pipewire beyond repair. I spent way to much time trying to fix it before I realised that it would take me way less time to reinstall.

That was a trigger I needed to do some distro hopping. After trying a few distributions, I settled on Tumbleweed on my PC and CachyOS on an old laptop I had lying around. While I am not 100% happy with Tumbleweed, it's good enough, so I am going to stick with it for a while now.

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pythosynthesis@reddit

Mint + Cinnamon for many, many years. Upgraded regularly. It works, I do work.

Second machine with Debian + Plasma. Only one problem in the past when upgrading to Bookworm. Except for that, smooth as they go.

Only touching Win through VirtualBox to use some old hardware that runs on Java. Never touching Win for anything else at home.

Very happy. The end.

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mooboyj@reddit

I've always had a random Ubuntu laptop in my life. Started on 10.04 and have just kept going. Have played with Suse Tumbleweed and Sid along with a brief period of frustration with Fedora.

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SkyBeneficial7696@reddit

wow

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whattteva@reddit

If it ain't broke, why fix it? Obviously the formula has worked well.

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Sufficient-Print3964@reddit

I LOVED THE ENDING!
i admit im a "hopper" . i like to try them out , learn each distro for awhile , or some not lol... but i do Enjoy Fedora KDE , Bazzite is cool ( im a gamer and server owner) , and i do love Arch ! I started years ago with red hat and yellow , Mandriva , Knoppix ( it saved my a$$ and a lot of other soldiers in Iraq) , Loved Ubuntu ,Especially Studio! but now im on Garuda Gamer... gotta tone down the eyewatering colors , but then its awesome ! as i said im a gamer... played Skyrim for years on Ubuntu Studio , same with a few other games...Rust has been the last 10 years of gaming , and it uses EAC ..so naturally there's issues with servers and such , but the game itself runs flawless ...
i say use what ya like ... thats why there are so many! Game ON!

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jradlak@reddit

Three words: Debian + KDE + Flatpak. My one and only daily driver since Bookworm (that's more than two years)

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mind_pictures@reddit

i replaced kde with xfce because i was running it on a conservative machine, and i found an mac os 9 theme that really brings me back.

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takingbackmilton@reddit

I really like Debian. Currently using Trixie on my surface laptop 3. I think I’m going to buy a new laptop to run trixie on it as this one has slowed down a lot. Still usable, just a bit slow.

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ben2talk@reddit

Boring is the goal, like your basic electronic devices... It's good to be able to turn them on and use them.

Imagine if you had a car key then you couldn't just push the button to unlock the car...

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Amate087@reddit

The same thing happens to me, I install one that works and updates, I never usually change distros, now I use Kubuntu and I haven't even thought about changing it for 5 or 6 months because everything works. I used Ubuntu until I tried Kubuntu in Live through KDE and I decided to try it and I love it.

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BrianaAgain@reddit

Nice! I've been using Linux since 1998, but not exclusively. I've had moments of weakness with Mac laptops.

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aqjo@reddit

I hopped until I find Bluefin. Now I just do my work.
If I want to try things out, I have an old Dell for that.

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debacle_enjoyer@reddit

That’s exactly why I use Debian. I want to use my computer for work, browsing the internet, and playing overwatch. All of which it does great, and will continue to do exactly the same for the next few years until I upgrade.

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Noisebug@reddit

I’ve done this and not changed from Ubuntu in like 10 years. Upgrades still go brrr.

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kalzEOS@reddit

"a wiping" made me chuckle. Sorry English is my second language and some things sound so funny to me. 😂

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UntoldUnfolding@reddit

Okay boomer.

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3vi1@reddit

I've been using Linux the same amount of time. You skipped over the part where we maybe fight with wifi drivers for some stupid chipsets when trying dongles (and then ignore it when it works), and the early days when printers where actually difficult... but I agree with you.

I just did my first complete re-install in 5 years. Even though I jumped from x11 to Wayland, I found most problems minimal. I think the biggest thing I did was switch from Flameshot to Spectacle (because flameshot + wayland + multimonitor + nvidia = sad). Everything else, "just works".

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pr0misc@reddit

I use Ubuntu since 6.10.

"..then I just use my computer": someone give an award to this fellow because he speaks the truth.

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FattyDrake@reddit

I've only been on Linux desktop for about a year, but even with servers I think the "forget about it" might go too far. Just recently updated my NAS after 560+ days of uptime. My home assistant server has like 30 update notifications queued and I'm just like, "Eh, I'll get to it sometime."

(Before anyone says it, they're all internal with no direct exposure to the outside world. The router gets updates regularly.)

Before Linux I had a Windows install for about 10 years, only upgraded once from Win 7 to 10.

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Skizophreniak@reddit

Attention! DANGER you are all being infected by a virus!

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Useful-Painting8480@reddit

is this a post?

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Curious_Kitten77@reddit

I am using Zorin OS for 3 months and its been satisfying experience.

Then end.

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vloshof28@reddit

same, simple, it works\^\^ I tested way too many distros :)

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Brillegeit@reddit

My mother has been using the same install of Ubuntu LTS since 2011 (10.04) when she got her first computer. The install survived her first $200 laptop and was cloned to a newer SSD in a Thinkpad 420s 7-8 years ago which she uses several times a week for email, Google Drive for images (Android phone), and word processing.

The install has been updated all the way up to 22.04, and will be updated to 24.04 when I visit this Christmas.

She has ~1-2 problems per year she needs help with, usually they're solved by turning the printer/scanner/router off and on again.

People who have never used Windows are the best Linux users!

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hektabyte@reddit

Inspiring.

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Linestorix@reddit

I leave when I get annoyed. Happened twice, left SuSe, left Ubuntu, don't see it happening with Mint soon.

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Square_Channel_9469@reddit

I honestly taught of the law and order intro when I read the title.

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cyrixlord@reddit

me too! I decide what apps or stack I want to use, and then I select a distro. server ends up Ubuntu by default, docker containers end up being mariner/azure linux and desktop linux is split between my ububtu nvidia dev laptop and kubuntu, my adorable little dell intel laptop that I use to tell people on discord that they are wrong

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vetgirig@reddit

I do the same. Been using Linux for 30 years.

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Ok_Party_1645@reddit

I’m inspired ! I can’t wait, please tell us s about your marriage !

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sublime_369@reddit

BASED. I like it.

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throwback1986@reddit

I’m in the middle of converting a couple of PC due to Win 10 EOL. I am always amazed how well this old hardware runs once on Linux.

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TheBackburner@reddit

They hated u/Jff_f because he told the truth…

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SoftwareSloth@reddit

Finally a real Linux user. Distro hopping is not stable user behavior.

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atgaskins@reddit

This is normal right? I mean I assume anyone reinstalling regularly is just tinkering every now and then. I started in the 90s when it was truly a hobby thing, and now most distros are just stable reliable OSes that only need reinstalling for the same reasons windows or mac users might (hardware fail, refresh years bad organizing, etc.).

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0utriderZero@reddit

I’m crying. Such a beautiful story that’s true! It hits close to home.

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mhplog_4444@reddit

I started out in 2005 playing with Knoppix (https://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html) and moved to Ubuntu a few years later. Still dual-booting. I distro hopped a lot in the early years. Also, on the Redhat side of things. I also tested OpenBSD and FreeBSD until I moved to Debian for good. That was around 2015. And this is a perfect place for now. It just works. I'm on Gnome but use Cinnamon, xfce or KDE for other machines.

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Jff_f@reddit (OP)

Me too! 2005 Knoppix xD

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prosper_0@reddit

I'm comfortable with various distros, but generally prefer Debian or a Debian derivative. Ironically, Debian was the first distro I tried in '97, and I hated it. Granted, it was kinda shit back then - but all the other distros were too. There was no such thing as a distro that 'just worked' at the time, unfortunately.

I remember being amazed by Knoppix when it came out - boot a working linux OS from a CD? Magic! It was Debian based, and was pretty easy to use it to bootstrap a decent Debian system with little effort.

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amnous@reddit

Weird. I change my distro whenever I change my underwear and then I break it and switch again. /s

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tose123@reddit

Ken thompson is it you?

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l1s4ng3l0@reddit

I wish be like that. Unfortunately I'm a distrohopper. I cant help to try a new one, specially with an exotic DM

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gaijoan@reddit

Everybody needs a hobby...

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Buddyh1@reddit

I've been using Debian for gaming for 6 month's, not using steam to avoid American products. Next up is my TV laptop which needs to have Mint installed.

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SDNick484@reddit

I guess I'm a simple man. I dived into Linux after my Windows XP and saw s*** the bed and I needed to use Linux to recover my data in 2003 and have been using the same distro, Gentoo, for over two decades. If it ain't broke...

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smallproton@reddit

Yes. No drama.

Been on SuSE since 1996.

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Sirusho_Yunyan@reddit

It's almost as if we're getting older and have less time for stuff that breaks or cuts us.. Whether it's Debian or Mint or, dare I say it, EndeavourOS (fabulous distro, solid as a rock if you leave it alone), use what works for you and gives you the least stress.

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I use debian and will use it till the end of days.

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