What did yall end up settling on?

  • MorPolitics@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    I was like this before I tried regular Arch. I probably would’ve settled on NixOS if I had tried that first. I feel like Linux Mint could be the end of the line because it just works on a lot of old machines & does so quickly.

  • TeaWithDani@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 day ago

    Distros are tools for a job. I stick with the ones that have the most helpful communities and/or the best documentation. I avoid communities that tell you off for asking help or documentation that is obtuse.

    Still successfully troubleshooting stuff through 10 year old Ubuntu forum threads. Meanwhile learning the most through the FreeBSD handbook and it’s not even Linux. lol

  • ikt@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 days ago

    Ubuntu 7.04 -> 7.10 -> 8.04 -> 8.10 -> 9.04 -> 9.10 -> 10.04 -> 12.04 -> 14.04 -> 16.04 -> 18.04 -> 20.04 -> 22.04 -> 24.04 -> Fedora J/K Ubuntu 26.04

    I like how sh.itjust.works

    • OR3X@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 day ago

      Haha, I feel that switch to LTS only releases. I was upgrading to every release in the beginning as well but it started to get old real fast. I run Mint nowdays. In the early days I loved testing new distros and tweaking around with my system, but after over a decade working in tech the last thing I want to do in my free time is have to fix my own computer.

    • TeaWithDani@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 day ago

      Hell yeah! I was using Ubuntu 10-14 in college and now back on the train with 24, 25 and 26. Everything just works every time and all the professional apps I need are first class citizens and well supported.

      Ubuntu Server, FreeBSD and OpenBSD are my server distros of choice as well. FreeBSD for a NAS. Gotta pick the right tools for the job!

  • Jaberw0cky@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 days ago

    I’ve tried hundreds, I have a laptop I just use for bare metal distrohopping… but I’ve just hit 6 months using NixOS on all my PCs and laptops. I strongly recommend everyone give it a go.

    • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      3 days ago

      Ubuntu -> Mint.

      Mint works for me. So, I use Mint.

      I suppose it’s partly because I’m old and have built something like nine PCs for myself over the years, and the novelty of all that wore off long ago. I just want something that works.

    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
      3·
      2 days ago

      I settled years ago on a setup I like, but until that point I bounced around like a rubber ball. That said, my current setup is built on Ubuntu and I think it’s about time to switch to Debian to get rid of the corporate bullshit.

          • Elting@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            Last time I think it updated through the update manager. Might have reinstalled itself in that process.

              • Elting@piefed.socialEnglish
                1·
                2 days ago

                I think one of the whole reasons the mint team stick with Ubuntu is it grants them the ability to use the kernel manager which makes these things more seamless.

                • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
                  1·
                  2 days ago

                  Sure, but that’s not what “reinstalling the OS” means in general use. I’m talking specifically about the kind of reinstall that overwrites everything on your root partition, and doing that for major updates seems to be a fairly common recommendation for certain kinds of distros; MX Linux says to do it like that, too.

    • this@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      I used to distros hop a bunch, not so much anymore.

      Not really much point for me these days, arch based distros are so well documented that I can change basically anything I want without reinstalling the os, and Debian is similar for my homelab servers.

    • festnt@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      2 days ago

      same. not having those big version updates and having control over everything i want from the start just feels so good

      and how incredible stable it is

  • Fridgeratr@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    1·
    1 day ago

    Ubuntu, then Pop OS, and now still on Mint. It really just works and is still really easy to customize.

    I’m thinking of trying Cachy OS though, but I’m not sure