Distro-hopping In Linux May Be Bad For Your Mental Health

Tired of distro-hopping and breaking your Linux setups? In this video, I break down my struggles with Arch, Pop!_OS, Fedora, and a whole lot more, while hunting for the perfect distro. From quirky package issues to GNOME gripes, I'm ready to stop the madness and settle down—maybe with Bedrock or Blend OS. Stick around to see if I finally kick the habit!

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00:00 Getting the most out of your Linux Distro
00:22 I Still Hate Archlinux, kinda...
00:47 I Love Pop_OS, but...
01:09 Fedora Is Awesome Too, Sort Of...
02:18 I Need A Better Linux Distro
03:32 Will Vanilla OS or Blend OS curb my distrohopping tendencies?
06:09 Blend OS just doesn't work for me
07:07 Can Bedrock Linux curb my distropping tendencies?
08:27 Fix For Google Chrome not finding my passwords when using a window manager
09:12 Wayland Still Sucks, Change My Mind
09:55 Back To Fedora XFCE4
10:22 Will I Ever Need Bedrock Linux? | Install multiple Desktop Environments on Blend OS
11:13 Should Google Continue To Manage My Passwords?
11:36 Blend OS vs Bedrock Linux Isn't Happening

[leggysoft]

I've noticed linux youtubers don't match the actual usage statistics for linux distros. Normal people want an OS that just works. Ubuntu Xubuntu Kubuntu Mint Mint
And SteamOS is huge now, once it's on more devices, it'll be in the top few, it already has millions of users.

[wimvanhooff]

I am grateful to all the people who contribute to Linux. They make beautiful designs, software, information magazines, videos and reviews. Distro-hopping for me means discovering what these people have to offer and what fits well with my personal preferences.
Distributions already tried: Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, OpenSuse, Manjaro, Fedora, Solus, Linux Mint with desktops like Cinnamon, xfce, Plasma. All beautiful!
At the moment I am trying Debian Gnome and I like it very much.
Fast and easy.

[StookyDoo]

I have given myself a rule that the only thing I can switch away from Mint to is Fedora KDE. I had too many people say it directly to me that it was good to not continue considering it. If I don't like it, I'll go back. That's it for now.

Enjoying Mint Enough not to switch, though

[DanielClear]

I distrohop because no desktop environment is still fully ready for me, yet. I try them, set them up, then reboot to Windows because I have to.
I just like to keep myself up-to-date with Linux desktop's progress.

[Contmotore]

Lol, this is so relatable! No distro seems to be perfect. Eventually you just have to pick one and use it for at least a couple of months. I usually end up using Arch again btw. ;-)

[esphilee]

Distro hopping is for fun.
Customising desktop is for fun.
I keep a computer for works, it has Linux Mint installed. It has some minor tweak for productivity purpose, nothing fancy.

[_BLANK_BLANK]

Glad I distrohopped after starting with mint. Eventually it led me to Gentoo and arch. And I love both of those.

And Gentoo is something I found out I liked after using arch and distrohoppjng a good bit but always installing arch again because I wasn't happy.

I will definitely try more distros in the future. Just got the fun of it though. I know at this point I'm just always going to come back to arch and Gentoo.

Edit: as far as I know btrfs and grub is one of the idea ways to do it. At least I used to have a set up with grub btrfs and snapper and I could boot into snapshots from grub.

[Staravora]

Bizarre problems that you can't figure out is probably the main problem that causes distro hopping lul
The solution imo is to settle for the one that causes you the least headaches and the fewest compromises because there simply isn't a perfect distro and that's why there's so many

[raf.nogueira]

My distro hopping problem is all about Fedora -> Ubuntu -> Arch Linux, I can´t stay more than 1 or 2 months in some of these distros, and this problem is hurting me for years

[d_sanu]

xfce is the best when it comes to any distribution, be it Arch or Debian.
Package management is top notch both in apt and pacman, but it's up to me to pick the important packages and how to omit unimportant ones.

[PerfMonk]

Add Nixos to your immutable distros list. Very nice distro but it comes with a lot of reading on nix. I tried blendOS too and put it aside for same reasons. 🤯

[JohnDoe-ipoq]

CachyOS if you want Arch. Tumbleweed if you want the best "just works", but with slow updater. NixOS if you want to ditch dependency hell. Mint if you're old and need to switch off windows XP. Everything else is a joke, and you're wasting your time. Have fun with that, which I question if people are picking garbage distros on purpose, because there's enough reviews out there to know better.

[BlackMage_]

If I could get Debian Stability with bleeding edge packages for gaming's needs (drivers, etc.) I would use that distro until it, or I die. I'm currently on Nobara and I enjoy my experience. things just work, i mean really they do, but I don't like the idea of being reliant on a very small team of maintainers who if they decide to do something else or can no longer upkeep the project i'm on a timer to move. So, I think i'll try Arch next and do my best to just, be very selective with packages and use Timeshift to keep things from being too unstable for my day-to-day. But yeah I don't like the idea of relying on the AUR for important items, but I consider the people who maintain packages there as well as really any distro's repositories to be saints. whether or not they know what they're doing lmao i appreciate them all the same.

[peterschmidt]

My distro hoping pretty much stopped when I started using Fedora KDE (and then Ultramarine KDE). I'd tried a few others previous to that but as you said, so many distros have issues. I was sick and tired of manjaro's constant bad updates, Ubuntu and derivatives are generally that far behind everyone else. For all the shenanigans of Red Hat, Fedora KDE just seems to work. Haven't had issues with update or upgrades in a few years now.
I still try out other distros from time to time but that's usually in a VM or on another PC

[grayghost]

This has got to me one of my most favorite backgrounds for filming a video in... Nice dark room, with some light illuminating you just enough. I experimented with vanilla OS and if it weren't for the forced Gnome... I'd probably stick with it if they give you options. Still looking for that perfect distribution lol. I get sick of linux and have to just chill in the Windows hot tub for a bit. I absolutely hate to say it but for the most part, Windows works. I know the disadvantages. I also know much of the world is powered on linux. It can be very purpose built for lightweight scenarios. Much more versatile than windows. Just can't do it all as good.

Small Edit: Windows 11 is my predominant system on a daily basis. Most things just work fine. You can't install a minimal windows setup on just anything though. Like linux has surprised me on what it can boot up on. Linux has a huge advantage for things like servers. Hosting web pages and such. You can have a very lightweight system even compared to a windows server setup that has no desktop.

[MyAmazingUsername]

I think mental health (ADHD?) is the reason for distro and app hopping.

[ZE_TRVTH_NVKE]

Try Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre and CRUX. I have also used Debian, RHEL, Arch and some of their derivatives, but didn't like them, because of their needless complexities and abstractions.

[TrustJesusToday]

...moved all PCs to CachyOS. AUR with paru is a superior experience. Hyprland 0.44.1 at this writing is awesome. Distro hopping should be fruitful not a syndrome of futility.

[StaceyAyodele]

I used Debian, then to Kubuntu because i needed newer packages. Then i moved to Fedora and stayed here cause Kubuntu killed itself

[johanb.]

Never been much of a distro hopper and I don't care about the latest and greatest. And that's why I use MX Linux. Stability is much more important to me. I use flatpaks if I want the latest.