Distro hopping is often seen as a sort of sickness. Something that you should strive to stop. But why is that? Many Linux experts have done it, and it doesn’t seem to have done any harm. In fact, I happen to believe that distro hopping is something that, while you shouldn’t probably continue to do forever, is deeply beneficial to anyone attempting to learn Linux. So, I will go through some reasons why you, yes you, should consider distro hopping.
just to get KDE/GNOME packaged in a certain way or one with a slightly more automated installer.
I agree that type of distro hopping is useless. But experimenting Debian, Arch, Gentoo, NixOS, Slackware, Void, those are all very fundamentally different.
As someone who packaged software for a living for almost three years, I cannot agree more. Even though it was just some packages for something like 10 different distros, not a full maintainership for a distro!
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I agree that type of distro hopping is useless. But experimenting Debian, Arch, Gentoo, NixOS, Slackware, Void, those are all very fundamentally different.
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As someone who packaged software for a living for almost three years, I cannot agree more. Even though it was just some packages for something like 10 different distros, not a full maintainership for a distro!