Linux

About two years, running Manjaro KDE. Runners up are Linux Mint, every major flavor of Ubuntu, and I briefly tried elementary OS. Manjaro has been my favorite for a while now!

I was on Debian from around 1996ish to 2019.

Been on Pop OS since then.

My longest was when i went 100% linux full time on my main machine (no dual boot), I stopped distro-hoppping. I Installed Debian stable when it first came out (Jessie) and stayed with it until it shifted to "old-stable" which was a little bit over 3 years.

A lot of people give Debian stable a hard time but i found it worked well. Most software that i needed to be a little bit newer i could get from the backports repository. It was only at the end of it's lifecycle that i started running in to software being a little to old for what i wanted to do. Then i went back to distro-hopping for a while until i found my next home. :-)

Linux Mint, 7 years. If it ain't broke....

@unix_joe: I've been using SUSE with KDE since SuSE Linux Personal 7.0. So, 20+ years?

I distro hopped quite a bit before I settled. Now been running Arch coming up a decade. Before my current PC build, my previous continuous install was 6 years old.

I've DE hopped a number of times throughout that time though. Now been using KDE for several years and happy to stay.

5 or 6 years using ArchLinux, I'm very happy :)

Linuxmint here for 14yrs or so. Hopped around a lot but have been using LM as my primary OS and daily driver for personal, work AND gaming. (proton is a god send)

EDIT - to clarify I've been consistently on LM now for about 3yrs, not too bad.

Probably Debian from 2014 to 2019, when I switched to GNU Guix System. I don't really intend to switch any time soon though so I'll stick with Guix for the foreseeable future.

I've been on Ubuntu ever since I switched to Linux 7 months ago, tbh I don't understand distro-hopping. I'm not any tech wizard, and Ubuntu fulfills all my criteria: worked out of the box, worked faster than Windows, hasn't broken yet 👍

All I do is run Firefox and Steam on my laptop anyways :/

I've been using Linux Mint (Cinnamon) as my only operating system since 2016. No dual booting.

Lets see. Debian since 1997... so 26 years. Back then you had to order 12 CDs through the post.

I downloaded Ubuntu 5.04 and have mostly stuck with Ubuntu for almost 20 years. I've tried other distros over the years but I've always come back to Ubuntu.

Going on year 3 of Manjaro. Looking forward to many more.

I’ve been on Fedora for about 7 years. My server flips between Ubuntu and CentOS every couple of years.

I used the same Ubuntu install since at least 18.04, possibly back to 16.04 (can't quite remember if I upgraded to 18.04 as a fresh install), up until my upgrade to 22.04 from 20.04 failed. I took that opportunity to try a different distro, which eventually led to my current KDE Neon install.

Used a bunch of distros since somewhere around 2001, but I've kept at least one Gentoo - or Gentoo derivate - machine since 2008. Nowadays my personal machines are all pure Gentoo, with a mix of Debian and *EL for servers.

Started on Mint properly in about 2019, but hopped around a little via Manjaro, Garuda, Endeavour and finally came back to Mint full time. These days if I want to try another distro I just install on a separate disk and leave my Mint as my every day install. So full time on Mint since about 2021.

I have been trying Fedora as my secondary too.

On Fedora since 2018. At first my main pc, then my laptop and at last my tablet. Never had big issues with it.

2008->2012 : Ubuntu, loved it until Unity and the bloatware started

2013->2014 : Arch, as a learning experience, left because kde stuff broke all the time and i really liked the new plasma5

2014->2019 : Opensuse Tumbleweed, loved how they handled packages, the default configs, and how well KDE ran on them, i switched to it mainly because it was at the time the best distro for plasma5, hated btrfs because it kept taking a lot of disk space for it's snapshots.

2019->2023(today) : PopOS, loved how they implemented tiling, and being on a debian based distro is very convenient, don't realy like the outdated repos, and started to like gnome more.

On servers i never left Ubuntu, and have only a couple of projects on CentOS.

• Ubuntu: 2007-2010
• Mint: 2010-2013
• 5 different distros in 2014
• Distrohopped every few months until 2018
• Manjaro: 2018-present

My one desktop is 5 years on Manjaro now.

Before that I had Ubuntu for 8 years across several installs, although I also dual-booted Windows back then.

But I've had a freeBSD file server for at least 20.

Since roughly a decade I use Arch Linux with i3/sway for all my daily computing.

I've been using the same Arch Linux installation now since 2018.

I've been on debian since around the time jessie came out, so 8 years it seems. I don't see myself switching anytime soon.

Debian for more than 15 years now.

I've been hopping between Gentoo and Arch for at least a decade and you can't stop me from doing it again >:P

(Currently using Arch on two systems, bytheway :'D Already thinking of hopping back to Gentoo on the desky one. Maybe try Funtoo. Unless there's a Funthree :thinkyface: ;P )

My current one, Fedora, since 36 had just released. I'll probably continue to use it as I wasn't as much of a distro hopper as most people anyway.

My main PC has been running Arch without interruptions for about 12 years. I've run Debian on my server for around 15 years now.

It just works. Why change?

I started with Linux like many, I guess, by distro hopping. My first experience was with Knoppix in the late 2000s (because I didn't know what a live CD was), then I tried OpenSuse, went on to Fedora (is SELinux still such a pain in the ass as it was back then?) and then to Kubuntu.

If I remember correctly I switched to Arch some time after Plasma 4 came out. About 11 years ago. It was, back then, one of the only distributions that shipped the newest stock KDE that "just worked". Actually that might be wrong, but I didn't know what I was doing with Linux anyways and somehow I liked Arch enough to stay. I used it at home, for work (software development) and at college. And it serves me well in all those areas (minus some minor hiccups).

It's still fulfilling my needs but lately I've been flirting with NixOS. I might change my daily driver once I get a new laptop (still rocking a Thinkpad T430 from 2012 but it's starting to show its age).

Ubuntu since Warty.

Probably like half a year on Mint. Don't know for certain.
I'm currently on Tumbleweed which is pretty good, though I do have some minor issues which make me want to just switch to Debian. I do work on this machine, so even minor issues are pretty damn annoying for me.

I started out on SuSE back in 94 and spent a while checking out rpm-based distros like Mandrake, RedHat, etc. Even stuff like m68k Linux, Slackware and the BSDs. Debian at that time was a pain to use. Used Gentoo for a while until I switched to Mac. After that I used Ubuntu, Mint, Antergos, Manjaro, Arch and Fedora.

And then I started noticing a pattern that I would always get frustrated with whatever I was trying out and go back to Fedora. So now it's been around five years I've stuck with Fedora for my gaming machine and my desktop.

Linux Mint for AMD, Pop_OS! for Nvidia. Former is workstation, latter is gaming.

Probably ubuntu from 05-16. Switched to arch around then, and been on manjaro since 2020.