The Phenomenon of Distrohopping!

Distrohopping is one of the most ridiculous and fascinating phenomenon in the beautiful history of Linux

[OnlyCitrus]

Bro finally found his youtube password

[Noice.]

Babe wake up, Reluctant Anarchist uploaded a new video

[OveRaDaMaNt]

Looked up this channel yesterday to see if you uploaded anything and saw only old uploads. And now you release a new one!

[группа-тд]

It's like choosing a car : different models with different features but at some point you have to realize : the process of moving is more important.

[theotheratticus]

This man just dropped some banger videos and disappeared for half a year
Glad you're back!

[LorenzodeSequera]

Love your videos! Top notch content right here.

Been exploring Linux myself lately, and I've hopped once from Pop OS to Linux Mint. It's good fun looking at what fits my personal use case.

[skelebro]

Let's Gooo!!!!
New Reluctant Anarchist Video!!!

[cllve]

>>3:32
>obscure linux distro
>nixos
You can say that a person is a true Linux enthusiast if they show nixos as an obscure distro, not gentoo or LFS.
Nixos is a coolest and strangest disto that I have never used.

[LillyAnarkitty]

Someone needs to make videos about the connections between FOSS and anarchism and socialism. I hope that person will be you.

[Aruneh]

I’m one of those people who just want my OS to sit in the background and I don’t have to worry about it. Distrohopping is definitely not me, but I can understand why many do it. :)

[akshatsingh]

Yippee! You're finally back after so long!

[lasdernas]

I did hop a bit when i was learning about linux, but I got into gentoo pretty early on. The freedom it gave me was amazing, and also learned quite a lot during that time. After that i even jumped to the bsd world for a bit. Then Arch came around the corner and was pretty much the same, but with less compiling. Right now I don't even know who needs anything other than arch. I've installed in in laptops, desktops and RPIs over the years and don't remember any real issues. The only issue is not reading the wiki usually, which obviously for newcomers might be understandable. But once you know the general idea how linux works, arch (and specifically pacman, or paru for aur support) is all that you need. I sense people have a phobia of the console, especially coming from win/mac world where a lot of stuff is done using mouse.
From my perspective, and remembering all the distros i tried before, it's usually just a reskin. Nice gnome theme, nice kde theme, maybe a theme and some custom utilities that look "nice". In some cases, some distros come with custom utilities and/or automation of some stuff. But why are those utilities specifically for that single distro, that is more times that not based on ubuntu, which itself is based on debian. It just makes no sense to me, given the effort required to maintain it all.
I can understand maybe someone wanting to use debian for "stability", but then people still use sid to get the newest stuff or use some other repos that someone compiled the newer stuff for the older, stable distro.

[gil_L]

Distros I tried in the last year: Ubuntu, Linspire 14, Xandros Enterprise Linux, Rocky Linux 8.10, Rocky Linux 9.3, PopOS, Oracle Linux. The ones I kept on hardware are: Rocky Linux 8.10 as my main daily OS, Linspire another desktop daily driver on another system (mostly because I have software installed and projects that can’t be moved to another system at this point) and Oracle Linux 9.4 for experimenting on another computer which I’m enjoying right now.

[anon_y_mousse]

I did a lot of hopping when I first got started, but after finding Slackware I haven't hopped since. Though, if someone is really keen on learning how it all works, I would suggest doing LFS because it'll teach you the most, but before attempting it, definitely watch Rob Landley's talk on a minimal Linux install. If you haven't seen it, give it a watch, it's a great video, regardless of whether you're going to do LFS or not.

[EHKvlogs]

I started with ubuntu, then i tried xubuntu, and kubuntu, now i am using debian 12 with kde as i don't like snap packages because they need to be closed to update.

[salfordqoutes]

we want a hyprland themes video either pre configured or manually configured;

[gimcrack]

In my 20 years with Linux. I distro hop to 44 Linux distro's. Not because I chosen the wrong one. I hop to learn more about Linux, plus all those choices of all those Linux applications as well. When you first start you don't know your wants or needs. You can't just choose one. Because there are many choices out there. You have to hop to know what you like and dislike. After you know them, you can start settling down and you diffidently learned something about Linux for sure. I'm not going to a 45th Linux distro. I stopped on MX and staying for life. So no more distro hopping for me. I might fiddle around with one in a VM. But that is close I'm going to get to distro hopping. I know all my wants and needs and know all my favorite Linux applications. I'll switch to a different Linux application, if it's better what I have now. But that don't happen much. I like what I like.

[sshivam]

Distro hopping made me learn many things and now i can live on any distro without hopping.

[nikithegamer]

I am gonna have a pretty clear path to Linux, first master Linux mint, then fuck about in Arch in a virtual box until I feel good enough with it to make it trully my own

[sumitkhatri]

So, I started my Linux journey in January this year.

Used Pop Os for 5 months.

Switched to Arch Linux Manual install, And have been using it for more than a month

Did I do it right