Just curious to see what people are up to. I’ve been using Nixos for a while. It’s fabulous and I have absolutely no reason to switch, but part of me is itching to hop to Debian or maybe OpenSUSE. How about you?
I’ve never really understood distro-hopping. Unless you have a reason to switch, why to do it? Or, why to bother?
If you want to check it out, read/watch a review, or test it on a virtual machine. You don’t really – IMO – have a reason to have it on bare metal.
Yes, if you’ve found your distro, I also don’t see a point in switching, there’s more important stuff than learning how to install and setup your distro everytime you hop. I only hopped, when I wanted to have a clean install because my previous was kinda broken (dirty state over time), and/or wanted to have more control, or try a different desktop-environment. I have now found a distro (NixOS) where I can have all of that at the same time (so no point in hopping anymore for me too).
I don’t. I just use Debian, because it’s the oldest, most popular, most (API) stable distro out there. I have zero needs to switch. I’m sick of OS’ (i.e. Windows) that keep moving/switching/changing things around in massive ways, just for the sake of change. I know they do it to stay fresh in the market, but that’s simply not it for me anymore.
Somewhere along the lines of 10-15 years?
Never… isn’t that normal?
I run a variety of VMs, and the VMs can run any distro, I’m pretty agnostic about it.
As far as my user interface goes once I’ve got it tweaked and set up I don’t want to ever change it. But I’m one of those crazy people who runs macOS as UI, and a fleet of VMs below it.
And at various companies I work for, I run Windows, with a fleet of VMs below that.
On my secure console I run Qubes with a fleet of VMs below that.
I did about once a year until 2018 when I settled on Arch.
But now I’ve got a server on NixOS and loving it, so I might be switching my laptop soon.
I use NixOs btw Its awesome. Having a stable system config with home-mangere for the user env is pretty nice to just play around with the security of always being able to switch back to a working generation (some exceptions may apply).
I was messing with the hardware config (which has a warning not to mess with it if you dont know what you are doing) and corrupted my drives.
I got my previous system back from a clean install in 30 minutes.
Yes, it certainly invites you to tinker and experiment with the system without having to fear a broken state. I got multiple forks for different applications (e.g. helix-editor with a few merged PRs), and configured the system in a detail not comparable to any previous distros I was on. Really like how I can e.g. carelessly switch between different desktop environments (without VM)…
