This is kind of the anti-distro hopping thread. How long have you stayed on a single Linux distribution for your main PC? What about servers?
I’ve been on Debian on and off since 2021, but finally committed to the platform since April of this year.
Before that I was on OpenBSD from 2011 - 2021 for my desktop.
Prior to that, FreeBSD for many years, followed by a few years of distro-hopping various Linux distros (Slackware, Arch, Fedora, simplyMEPIS, and ZenWalk from memory).
How long have you been on your distribution? Do we have anybody here who has been on their current distro for more than a decade?
I stayed on Ubuntu on my main computers for 14 years from 2007 to 2021. Ran into some dependency problems and switched to Fedora on my main device, it has been working as a charm.
Not entirely sure, started with Ubuntu in 2007 or 8 I’m guessing. Still on Ubuntu, but the shine is very much off with all their pushing away from .deb files & several other frustrating issues.
It’s been a few years since I tried Fedora but I’m kinda still angry at RedHat for the RHEL & Fedora split, that was some bullshit right there. That was a good chunk of why I went away from them, and being purchased by IBM & killing off CentOS hasn’t won any popularity contests.
I’m thinking I may have to give real Debian a shot next cycle. I don’t want bleeding edge anything, I stick to LTS for about a year past the release of the latest LTS, so Debian’s “slow” cycle works fine for me.