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?
Was a Ubuntu user from 9.10 until 20.04; snap shittyness caused me to hop around for a while. Settled on Mint a few years ago.
It’s stable, gets out of my way and lets me get my work done.
It has been a really long time (20? years) since I’ve been on nix. Kind of torn by Mint and Deb. I want the ease ootb but the flexibility of Deb.
Similar here. Left Red Hat for Ubuntu Warty because reviews suggested it was great (it was). Left Ubuntu for Debian because of snaps (not so great). Left Debian for Fedora because immutable sounded like less system admin and more using apps (it is).
I ditched FreeBSD and Slackware when I got tired of installing everything from scratch on every major release. Compiling stuff from source was interesting for learning and seeing how amazing open source can be, but it wasn’t fun long term.
Then I ditched Ubuntu because there was always something not working on laptops, usually related to hibernation/sleep and/or webcam/wireless. I was frustrated with how little care was put into making sure such basic things would simply work.
I’m currently very satisfied with Mint. Everything just works out of the box and Mint X is a lovely theme for old folks like me, who appreciate a proper good looking desktop and can’t understand what all the hype is with dark/flat themed UIs these days.
Shadow updating their Linux app to support anything other than Ubuntu 20.04…
It’s the only reason I use it, and it’s weird and bad that they only support that distro and version (which has reached EOL). I’ve talked to them about it and all they say is “We see the need from users for support of newer Ubuntu versions and other distros” which is such a nothingburger of an answer. I spent three days with several other distros and Ubuntu versions trying to figure out a fix but sadly never found one. I just wanna use Linux Mint or anything other than Ubuntu, especially a 5 year old version.For the ‘I use … BTW’ meme to say something else.
No, actually, I can’t think of anything. I’m pretty comfortable with it at this point. Been running it since 2013…
Similar to other users - repos go down or corporate stuff starts to creep in.
As long as I get to maintain agency over my system I’m pretty content.
Ubuntu 20.04 running out of support. Things start to break slowly now and I sure as hell will not go with the corporate asshattery anymore. Might switch to arch but still deciding.
If gentoo stopped being maintained, I guess I’d find something else.
My first distro was debian and why I switched was that I wanted up to date packages.
I used ubuntu for 10+ yr and switched because of firefox snap. To fedora. Wow it is so much better here
I am
- Glad you had the courage to try something new
- Impressed you had your limit and stuck to it
- Relieved as a former security person that you’re improving package validation and will reap the rewards even if you don’t notice
- Disappointed it wasn’t before some seriously sketchy shit has gone down with RH and trickled down to fedora.
Finally
- Overjoyed as fuck if it seemed like an easy switch, but please correct me there.
Could you elaborate on the sketchy shit? I am literally about to switch from openSUSE to Fedora, is there anything I should be aware of? Thanks for your time.
id like to know too
Last time I did, it was thanks to canonical pushing snaps and other things no one asked for.
Same here. I had been sticking to Ubuntu flavours for over 15 years.
I stuck with Ubuntu over a decade, but eventually Arch had several packages I was interested in that Ubuntu did not, plus the Arch wiki. I wanted to use Sway with several rofi/dmenu type utils, and Arch had a lot more of those packaged.
Same. I had been using Ubuntu for over a decade for all of my Desktops, but had used CENTOS/Rocky for servers. Now I switched to Fedora for desktop which simplifies things since now only my Raspberry Pis use deb vs rpm.
Snap is super frustrating and the gate-keeping of updates and features behind the Pro subscription is annoying. I don’t want to have an account if I dint have to. It’s just one more privacy violation waiting to happen with no real benefit to me even if it is free for personal use.
Modern desktop enviroment design, and seamless updates like in macOS
what or if you have it takes for you to want to switch to a different distro?
Any meaningful difference that improves my use. I’m a pragmatist, not a distro zealot.
I use Fedora Asahi Remix currently, and I want to switch to NixOS but am uncertain about the MacBook support, and even if it was good switching would take longer than it’s worth unless my current installation stops working for whatever reason
Moved away from Ubuntu due to SNAP. Never looked back.
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.
