for gratis or other reasons ?

  • Have you been a distro hopper ?
  • What is your favorite Linux distro ?

EDIT : Thanks for all the comments so far. Heartwarming really!

  • lemmyreaderOPEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I like Vanilla Gnome nowadays and when I want to see a new distro, I just check it out in a VM.

    I liked GNOME 3, and first disliked GNOME 4 but with the gnome-tweaks tool (to get the two extra window buttons back) and the easy to enable Night Light feature, I got used to it and appreciate it more and more.

    I think Chrunchbang (R.I.P.) was my favorite distro when I was all-in on distro hopping and customizing everything.

    btw, there’s a new life : https://www.crunchbangplusplus.org/

    But at some point for a developer, your OS becomes more of a tool for opening an IDE and/or terminal and you value stability over customization or having the very latest software. In the Flatpak era, that’s even more true since you can run the newest versions regardless of the system.

    Agreed.

    • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I had the most elaborate Conky scripts for CrunchBang. That was a fun era for experimentation. Even the closed source OSes were trying new things because of the transition to smartphones.

      It’s probably just as fun today but everyone likes the music that came out when they were young and experiencing it for the first time.