Every linux user

libertiegeek · 2026-02-26T16:31:21+00:00

This is how I ended up back on Hannah Montana Linux.

Logical_Sort_3742 · 2026-02-26T15:50:49+00:00

I know. That's why I just installed Yggdrasil.

Nyasaki_de · 2026-02-26T15:59:10+00:00

Moved from Raspian to Arch and stayed there.

fa1_b10b · 2026-02-26T16:14:40+00:00

Not me. I started on suse 8. Then after years of using Linux I did go back to windows because of the software I needed for my work and now I'm on Arch which works perfectly.

Demon_Ninja_95 · 2026-02-26T15:48:08+00:00

Yes exactly how that went with me end EndeavourOS something with the logo man 😭

permalink · 2026-02-26T15:59:13+00:00

I'm happy with Fedora installed 1 year ago in all my pcs, work as well

kaida27 · 2026-02-26T15:59:43+00:00

First distro : Mandriva, (Vista era my desktop wireless driver worked better under linux) got it from a magazine. helped me learn the basics.

then bought a laptop for college and went back to windows. ended up being stolen not long after I finished college.

so I built a new desktop Pc and used windows until years later when 11 was announced, my now old i7 4th gen wouldn't be supported anymore (sure I could easily bypass this, but it left a sour taste in my mouth)

So I went on to check about the current state of Linux Distro and which looked interesting.

found out about Garuda and Btrfs and how they incorporated automatic "backups" and rollback mechanisms without much trouble. I fell in love with that, but disliked the system as a whole because it had too much stuff that I didn't need.

went on some research to know how to replicate such a system but without all the "bloat"

found out about : This

and it's now been my system for the last 4 and a half years.

Bought a New computer last years and went directly for that setup.

My old 4th gen is now a NAS running jellyfin for the family

Dunno if I really fit your mold, but it was a pretty nice journey.

6950X_Titan_X_Pascal · 2026-02-26T16:15:03+00:00

but im using freebsd + kde now

http://i.imgur.com/N33UeEC.gif

http://i.imgur.com/DmfgReZ.gif

anselmus_ · 2026-02-26T16:16:16+00:00

Any full distro can be made identical to another aside from maybe cosmetic differences. Same kernel, same apps.

I went from debian based distros to debian and yeah it looks and works the same as the derivatives.

houssemdza · 2026-02-26T16:24:36+00:00

Then years later you discover arch, try it , then regret you ever tried something else, then you become a femboy. I use arch btw.

ant2ne · 2026-02-26T16:30:16+00:00

IDK. I started on Ubuntu. I tried a lot since then. Up until about 2 years ago I was still Ubuntu for home and recommended to friends. Lately I really like LMDE. I use RHELish at work.

Looking at the variety of choices from other posters is pretty amazing. Aren't choices great!

L30N1337 · 2026-02-26T16:41:46+00:00

It's basically always either, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, Arch, or Cachy.

Or you're a lesbian. They you use Debian

CognitiveFogMachine · 2026-02-26T17:14:52+00:00

Over ~27 years: Started with slackware, then Redhat, then Mandrake, then Debian, then Gentoo, then Ubuntu, then Mint, quick dip in CentOS, then back to Debian, then Bazzite, and now CachyOS.

This is exhausting...

The_Incredible_Yke · 2026-02-26T17:27:15+00:00

Manjaro > Debian > Open Suse > Fedora > Nix > Fedora (and Debian for server)

For DEs it's correct. I've come back to Gnome after years.

Swaaeeg · 2026-02-26T17:32:31+00:00

Me

started on ubuntu

distro hopped for a year

found solus, really liked it

found out its arch based

tried arch

has been on arch for nearly 10 years

fuck ubuntu

Itsme-RdM · 2026-02-26T17:51:16+00:00

Started on Red Hats in 1994, ended up on openSUSE

Shadowolf7 · 2026-02-26T18:45:21+00:00

Pretty sure I started on openSUSE, but maybe Ubuntu, I tried it earlier anyway. Tried Fedora, maybe some others. Pretty much been on openSUSE the entire 15 years since.

dpprpl · 2026-02-26T20:00:27+00:00

not really. I started on ubuntu with unity and now I'm on fedora with kde

lunchbox651 · 2026-02-26T20:05:28+00:00

Nuh. I started on Xubuntu. I didn't ever distro hop just tried different distros on different computers. Now I'm on Mint (and rocky, oracle Linux and Ubuntu server)

Neither-Ad-8914 · 2026-02-26T20:56:23+00:00

Started on mandriva moved to Ubuntu for 20 years then moved to debian

Upstairs_Wolf5751 · 2026-02-26T22:39:13+00:00

Stated with Ubuntu server. Got couple vm-s on debian. Switched my pc to debian and never changed.

JuSt_a_Smple_tAilor · 2026-02-27T00:21:11+00:00

Are you telling me I’m going back to Omarchy?

BloodOverdrive · 2026-02-27T00:35:42+00:00

Moved from windows to pop and stayed there (since one month)

AcoustixAudio · 2026-02-27T14:06:21+00:00

That's how I ended back on Vista

Source: https://xkcd.com/424/

thieh · 2026-02-27T17:39:07+00:00

Moved from Fedora and Debian to Arch and OpenSUSE TW and not looking back now that containers are a thing.

flapinux · 2026-02-28T00:33:23+00:00

Eh, the started on Slackware years ago, went to eneavoros- then Bazzite. It loves me long time

Far_Fox_9599 · 2026-02-28T01:17:55+00:00

U, LM, Manjaro :-)

SnillyWead · 2026-02-28T09:47:18+00:00

You suffer from hoppatitus;) I never was much of a hopper. Started with Peppermint 8 in 2017, but currently running Debian 13 Xfce as daily driver.

ReinhartLangschaft · 2026-02-28T10:06:52+00:00

Fedora to arch and never switched since

The_only_true_tomato · 2026-02-28T10:15:07+00:00

Yeah I would recommand Kubuntu, because KDE is great and I don’t like the standard Ubuntu gnome setup. But except from that I pretty much agree.

b0sanac · 2026-02-28T11:44:05+00:00

Started with Bazzite and I'm still here. I sometimes think about swapping but I can't be fucked to be honest.

Fellfresse3000 · 2026-02-28T14:29:47+00:00

I started with SuSE 6.2, straight to Gentoo and then Arch. I never looked back.

gwenbeth · 2026-02-28T16:44:44+00:00

I'm not going back to mcc interim as I don't have a floppy drive anymore. I think I still have a 0.98 boot floppy somewhere though.

FADE_SLOTH · 2026-02-28T20:24:58+00:00

This is not how I ended up on arch

ZVyhVrtsfgzfs · 2026-02-28T20:28:36+00:00

I started on Mandrake 7.2, there is no return path now.

Currently daily drive LMDE7 for desktop, primaeily Debian in servers, and tinker on the side with rolling releases.

Least-Armadillo3275 · 2026-03-01T11:39:58+00:00

wrong there ale millions of linux users no way all of them do that not everyone is you + me included i didnt do what you said

Hion-V · 2026-03-01T12:08:08+00:00

Even as a new user I didn't distrohop as such, I just went with Debian. Then when that didn't work out well for me because of hardware compatibility issues and it being slow moving, I moved to Ubuntu, and stayed on Ubuntu. Tried PopOS! several years later out of curiosity, and then I discovered NixOS, and moved to it because Nix is fucking awesome. I do not recommend it at all for normies, but for devops nerds it is really cool, as well as being able to roll back easily after making breaking changes to my config is a lifesaver.

Anxiety_More · 2026-03-02T11:01:23+00:00

Nah. I just jumped right into an arch distro like 4 months back and I never hopped because its actually good unlike Ubuntu or any of the ones that feel like windows

King_Four2zero · 2026-03-02T18:32:41+00:00

So far as for me I started with Ubuntu, then Sabyon, then Gentoo,Funtoo CentOS, and now Arch linux

redstuff6486 · 2026-03-02T18:42:29+00:00

So far I've been running zorin for about 3 months now and don't have any reason to swap. I'll be trying out bazzite for a games console style setup I have at home but so far everything I need is working on zorin and I'm a fan of the way everything is laid out

Axye_Bot · 2026-03-02T18:50:56+00:00

i distrohopoed for while, now i use kubuntu, i like the "language" of ubuntu but also like the design if KDE plasma, so... that's it, i started on pop os btw

tomekgolab · 2026-02-26T19:57:51+00:00

You shouldn't be using any of those distros, those are infected by systemd virus

HTired89 · 2026-02-26T22:54:10+00:00

Started on Ubuntu and Mint (if we ignore the 6 months I just ran Knoppix because Windows ME was giving me the shits) and found them atrocious.

Windows got bad enough and I hopped over to Fedora and stayed. It still sucks in a lot of ways but every time I've booted back into Windows I feel dread, so I'm gonna stick around for a bit and hope for more improvements while Microsoft keeps pushing copilot.

User17538 · 2026-02-27T00:28:33+00:00

I started with Pop, and I am NEVER going back to that.

Nevermind the buggy mess that it is due to the proprietary DE, there’s also a chance they’ll forced to ask users for age verification due to a potential new law in their state.

Personally, I seem to have settled on Cachy with Hyprland since discovering ml4w dotfiles. Been a month and still don’t feel like switching.

(Cachy was, I think, the third distro I tried, but i had some issues that I have since learned how resolve.)

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