How to Stop Distro Hopping and Why You Do It!

[mentalmarvin]

Hello, I'm Ko, and I'm a distroholic

[appenzell]

Fedora stopped me from Distro Hopping, I love how clean the system feels with stock gnome. I love their stance on packaging mostly free software by default, but are not overzealous and also have a repo with proprietary software for when you need it. I also like how they are pushing forward modern technologies like wayland and flatpak.

[MasterSam]

Hey. I've been struggling with this distro-hopping process. Add to that that I have OCD, so it's been annoying. Hopefully this is the last time I change the OS. I'm switching to Ubuntu. Thanks for the video. It helps and gives encouragement to people like me ❤

[angrymoose]

It happens to everyone. It’s kind of a rite of passage among Linux users, everyone has, at some point, done some hopping. It’s quite beneficial, actually. You don’t wonder what it’s like on the other side after you do it, because you’ve seen all the sides. The smart Linux user dual boots for their distro-hopping journey. They have one distro that stays, it is concrete, and retains all files and programs. Usually it’s an Ubuntu-based distro, either it’s Ubuntu itself or it’s Pop or it’s Mint. Easy, stable, old reliable. Then they have their other partition where they boot up Arch or Manjaro or Kali or whatever this weeks distro is.

[thedanmethenyshow.]

I appreciate your perspective on this. There are definitely differences with Linux and BSD. BSD does have more choices now than before there are many versions of BSD based operating systems that are out there and they are not defined as distributions such as Linux are so that is correct. Also IMHO most important thing or things I should say to me in my operating system of choice is the init system and the Shell I decide to use. That differs some people may just be happy with the default system d and bash shell. For me there are better choices. I would say for myself I would switch a lot due to wanting to learn more about how certain operating systems work and what they can do. I think most people will go through that phase who are alternate operating system users. Learning about what they like and don't like and what components they want to use what software they prefer there's a lot of great tools in both operating systems of Linux and the BSDs. Both use gnu software even though the Linux is the primary for gnu components you can still use them in BSD. Also we live in a world where things change everyday and a lot of these operating systems change all the time. That's my two cents on the subject.

[hypensterisk]

I'm going to choose archlinux and challenge myself to use it in a few months, thanks for the advice.

[mehdiyahiacherif]

well, i like benchmarking distros, and it is true that they are 95% equivalent
but then thing is i want a distro that is clean, minimal and help me as a sap dev too
this is why i tend to choose
fedora / OpenSUSE more
but for CI/CD i like to go with debian / ubuntu

for a personal pc advanced : Endevour / arch / fedora / Suse
beginer : mint / Ubuntu

[Jacob]

Ok I duo boot. I run a Distro for work and a distro for play and gaming.. Ok I'll do Linux mint for work and Manjaro for gaming... No no wait, I'll switch to Linux mint for work and Pop Os for gaming... Nah nah nah, wait! I'll do Fedora for Work and Pop OS for gaming... Nope that don't do it... Fedora for Work and Garuda for gaming.... Literally a month in my life while knowing deep inside I could google how to make any distro do what I want....

[btiphotography]

I really wish I could stop distro hopping... Everytime I try another distro apart from Linux Mint, I end up getting very frustrated with the distro I'm testing... Then regret hosing my system. So I go back to the first distro. Then I watch a distro review video. Then I think "Oh, that person uses X distro. Maybe I would be happier if I used that distro as well". Then I hose my system for X distro. Then I get dissatisfied. So I go back to Linux Mint. Then rinse and repeat....

Meanwhile I have so many other things I *should* be doing e.g. using my system for Photo Editing, especially as my Photography Club has started up again after 2 years being closed due to Covid. The way things are going if I don't stop Distro Hopping, then I'll end up wasting all my time distro hopping, rather than getting Photos edited for my photography

Fingers crossed Timeshift to the rescue and I can get my Linux Mint 21 working again!

[Ryan.Lohman]

You have no idea how Debian turned by life right-side up. Here is how I distro-hopped over the years
Mid 90's MacOS 9 / AUX and SGI Irix
Late 90's - early 2000's Mandrake Linux
2000's Ubuntu
late 2000's Mac OS Tiger - Snow Leopard running CentOS virtualized
2010 Mint Linux
2012 back to Ubuntu
2015 Slackware
2016 back to Ubuntu
2018 PopOS!
2022 Debian - this is the least locked down Linux - I'm staying here

[siutcasepower]

Tried to stop distro hopping and instead got a degree in Psychology

[kdato]

Well, not every Linux user distro-hops.