Just curious to know if anyone has been using the same distro for multiple years/decades and what or if you have it takes for you to want to switch to a different distro?

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    1 month ago

    Probably nothing. I’m currently in the process of starting to distrohop a lot. I want to try out lots of distros, for fun and in order to recommend distros to other people. I will probably eventually settle on arch or nixos though, the customization seams really awesome.

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    1 month ago

    Having broken lts-kernel and broken 6.15. At the same time. But the zen kernel saved me. So I guess if it was 3 broken kernels at the same time I would switch distro, haha. Lts was broken amdgpu kernel module, worse then sleep issue for mainline.

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    Not sure… I really like Arch, except for one thing that is also a problem on most other distros : packages creating files everywhere and leaving a mess behind when uninstalled. I’d rather have them isolated like NixOS does, and being able to switch easily between several versions of the same package is neat. Declarative configs are also very cool… but I really don’t want to use a weird language for making packages, I’m just stating to learn how that work and I like that Arch packages are very straightforward and easy to understand.

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      1 month ago

      I half the point of package managers was so you could easily uninstall them. Do package managers usually not fully uninstall?

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        From what I understand the package managers remove files they themselves created but not files created by the application itself like config files and other stuff

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    I usually try out a couple of new distros whenever I am either setting up a new computer, or something happens with my current machine that requires a fresh OS anyway.

    I’ve been married to Pop!_OS for a couple of years now. however, for the past couple of months I’ve been booting exclusively into KDE Plasma on my desktop computer; almost everything works really well for me in that environment, except the built-in Pop!_OS stuff itself, such as the pop shop, does not work very well. so I might end up switching to a distribution that’s built around KDE, such as KDE Neon.

    I’m also pretty curious about the Nix package manager and the concept of immutable desktop systems, so I guess I might try NixOS at some point? I don’t know much about it yet.

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    I’ve been running Slackware for a long time and have no intention of switching unless Pat steps down and Slackware goes down with him. As long as my base install receives updates, I’m good. I take care of the rest.

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    I used to distro hop all the time until I settled on Tumbleweed. I used that for eight years until Suse bared their corporate teeth and I got fed up with being two generations behind on the Nvidia drivers. I’ve been using EndeavourOS for almost a year and don’t see me moving any time soon.

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      Right? My flake is pretty complex at this point. I use it for over 6 computers, my storage server, compute servers, VPS etc etc. Been perfectly stable for over 3 years. I update with the release cycle every 6 months. Never needed more than a small change here or there and it usually warns me of the depreciations ahead of time.

      Thankfully I’ve only needed to roll back twice and it was perfect. Lost no data and kept working while I waited for a fix. If my flake ever blows up completely I’ll switch… but I dobt that will happen lol

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      1 month ago

      Did they settle that confusing governance drama that happened a little while ago?

      As a outsider looking in, I thought that was very much the “falling apart” moment

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    The repo servers going down or some unacceptable change to the system defaults. Starting to distribute my browser (or anything else) as only snaps / flatpaks would absolutely do it. Yeah, I’m looking squarely at you, Ubuntu.

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    At this point i think nix would have to die. I like the declaritive way of doing things, and invested a lot of time in learning how to use it.

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    If all the mirrors for pacman somehow got taken down, probably would switch to something corporate like Ubuntu.

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    I’ve been using Artix Linux for 5 years. Its great, minimal, and does everything I need for my day to day tasks.

    If I were to ever change, it’d probably be because the devs could no longer maintain it. In which case I’d probably just hop to Gentoo.

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    Other than massive breakage, I’m not sure. Completely reinstalling and reconfiguring my setup is a pain in the ass, in part because of my slow internet connection. But damn if Ubuntu isn’t trying to find out.

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    I’ve been using Arch (BTW) for a few years now. I would only consider switching to something non-Arch if they started enshittifying like Windows. I don’t see that happening though.