What's the longest you've stayed on a distribution?

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?

Glome,

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. It's surprisingly stable for a rolling release distro.

unix_joe,

How long? I remember seeing some people have used it since the mid-2010's on the same install.

Glome,

I used it on my gaming rig for about a few months before giving up due to frustrations with nvidia 😔. I guess it's not considered distro hopping because I was forced to hop back to windows. Never had any other issues besides nvidia. I've only ever used rolling release distros and the problems I had to deal with on Arch for example never came up in Tumbleweed.

michael,
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Yes, I was a distro hopper up until I tried Tumbleweed for the first time. Been using it for two years now, hopped around for a year prior.

JRepin,
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Couldn't agree more. Probably because they have some automatic QA going on on their CI and if some package does something wrong that this QA catches the package does not get included into update until it passes. Also if there would be something that would go wrong you still have automatic BTRFS snapshots created before and after and update and a boot entry automatically added to GRUB so you could simply reboot into old working state in such an unfortunate case.

SpaceCadet2000,
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head -n1 /var/log/pacman.log

[2014-10-11 14:33] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -r /mnt -Sy --cachedir=/mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg --noconfirm base base-devel'

Almost 9 years it seems

Justaregulardude2001,

I’ve been on Fedora Linux for almost a year now. Considering that I started using Linux when the pandemic started, you can figure out that it’s my distro of choice now. Also, I like that Fedora is, for the most part, quite developer friendly and had great packages and software installed when I first started using it.

Uno,

I’ve been on Ubuntu ever since I switched to Linux 7 months ago, tbh I don’t understand distro-hopping. I’m not any tech wizard, and Ubuntu fulfills all my criteria: worked out of the box, worked faster than Windows, hasn’t broken yet 👍

All I do is run Firefox and Steam on my laptop anyways :/

KelsonV, (edited )
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My main desktop has been upgraded continuously from RHL5 (no E) in ~1999 to Fedora 38 today.

Well, almost continuously. I've done at least one fresh install, when I switched from 32-bit to 64-bit hardware.

Edit: I have used a lot of other distros on other boxes, both physical and virtual - I've just stuck with Fedora on that one.

guigs44,

Two years, Arch. Idk why but it feels comfy. Rolling release for the most up to date bugs + the AUR 👌🏼

antikaon, (edited )

As my personal day-tp-day system, It looks like 8 years of Ubuntu. I have a file server that just will not die that's been running Ubuntu LTS since 2008 though.

Here's my Distro journey:


1996-1997 - Debian (Still dual booting Windows)
1997-2002 - RedHat Desktop 5.0-7.3 (Linux became my main day-to-day OS!)
2002-2003 - Crux
2003-2008 - Gentoo
2008-2012 - Ubuntu / Ubuntu LTS
2012-2014 - Mint
2014-2022 - Ubuntu / Ubuntu LTS / Xubuntu (I switched back to Ubuntu as my personal OS since I had deployed Ubuntu to over 100 systems at work, and I had a little netbook with Xubuntu) 
2022-???? - LMDE 5 (Linux Mint - Debian Edition)

Still loving LMDE.

SexualPolytope,
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I used Manjaro for 3 years 2018-2021 on my laptop. I think that's the longest yet. Been using EndeavourOS since, almost 2 years now.

qkall,
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@SexualPolytope @unix_joe

are you me? same story

SexualPolytope,
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I think a lot of people switched when the started messing up. Something was breaking every couple of months, and that too for very stupid reasons. When they forgot to update their signing keys, that's when I decided that I couldn't trust them anymore.

unix_joe,

This is the first I've heard of Endeavour OS. It looks quite nice; I'll have to give it a try now.

SexualPolytope,
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It's the spiritual successor of Antergos and arguably the best Arch derivative at this moment.

unix_joe,

I have the i3 version spun up in a VM at the moment. It seems like something I might jump to. Thanks for mentioning.

SustainedChaos,

It’s vanilla Arch with an installer. Fast and stabile.

EugeneNine,

Slackware in the late 90's then went away from Linux for a bit until back to Slackware in 2002 or 2003

falx,

Been on Arch for the past 15 years or so. Distro hopped a lot before that

Spewpid,

First one was SuSe, but I've been with Ubuntu since the early days... Sometimes I'll install another distro to have a peek, but I always revert to Ubuntu after a short while...Only time I felt the urge to change, was when they shipped it with unity as default...

AndyPanic,

Debian for more than 15 years now.

AceLucario,
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My current one, Fedora, since 36 had just released. I'll probably continue to use it as I wasn't as much of a distro hopper as most people anyway.

pap1rus,
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one and a half year with Manjaro Gnome on my desktop.

thepiguy,

Almost 2 years on arch. It is mostly stable for me, I am just afraid of Nvidia updates. Nothing else ever broke for me.

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