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 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 have trisquel on my laptop :D
everything works expect: wlan; when the laptop goes to sleep the keyboard doesnt work anymore.
On my 26th year of using it, and I think I’m beginning to get the hang of it
Broke my teeth with endeavour because of the bluetooth. Using bazzite for the moment and it’s fine since.
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… 😅
in october when windows 10 is eol i can switch a laptop to mint or ubuntu… or maybe 10 ltsc if the person doesnt want.
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
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.
Swapped to Linux 3 or so months ago, and have loved it. Doing Arch Linux, wanted to see every component go into the OS and just get a slightly better understanding of my computer - even though I think most educated people could use it with little complaint.
Games mostly just work, most software I use is there, I’ve found some fun new programs like an ASCII art and dithering image converter which has just been fun.
Last night I broke my system by trying to use my yubikey as the sudo requirement following some instructions that weren’t explicit about the caution I should have had. Loaded a backup via the Konsole and was back to before my fuck up in 5 minutes - mess up to fix (through freakout). That’s given me a lot of confidence in the stability of the system.
I also got to play the Arc Raiders Alpha test. I’ve written about this story before but it didn’t work the first day but it was clear to me it was a server issue or proton issue. Second day a patch came out and I was able to play it no problem. That gave me a lot of confidence that good games, even good online PVP games, will come to Linux without much issue.
Between those two events I’m pretty confident I’ll be on Linux for the rest of my life and if Arch continues to get support that’s where I’ll be for the foreseeable future (which it seems like it’s only speeding up and not at all in question of their funding).
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
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.
Started with slack, hopped around for a few years as new distros began to pop up. Stopped using Gnome after… We’ll call it a philosophical disagreement with a Gnome developer. The main issue persists, so I still won’t use it.
Eventually landed back on Debian, and I stay there with a mix of Debian based (proxmox), Debian stable, and one box running Sid for testing/reporting issues. I have two “main” desktops, deb stable and arch.
Most have no GUI, except for my main desktopss, a laptop, and the one running Sid, all are KDE.
I’m pretty well settled on the Debian side, arch is a more recent bit of fun. I may move the arch box to something else at some point, but the Debian boxes are basically here to stay.
Funnily, I also started with slackware 1999. Had been using FreeBSD since 1996 though … Currently mostly using GhostBSD privately.
I was a brief user of the Beastie going back some time, though I guess a longer semi-user of it as I had in on a sparc I picked up from a computer show for a few years. Didnt do much with it other than have a few dbs on it though!
I just love mint. Had win10 before but couldn’t be bothered to upgrade to 11, which I have to use at my job.
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. :)Adventure ended a while back. Been on bazzite (Fedora atomic spin) for a few years and can’t see myself moving far from it.
Been dual booting Linux for a long time (was cutting my teeth in the 2010’s on Gentoo) and only kept windoze for games, which ive thankfully just totally ditched.
