Just curious to know if anyone has been using the same distro for multiple years/decades and what or if you have it takes for you to want to switch to a different distro?

    • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
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      1 month ago

      I got the impression Mint isn’t best for KDE. For the reasons you mentioned, I guess, because it’s not been set up with all those options right for KDE.

      I’m also on Mint, and happy to stick with it for some time, but sometimes I’ve wondered about going back to OpenSUSE, or even trying KDE’s own distro. But by then I start thinking about Nix and Guix also, as well as old faithful Arch. Then it’s too much choice and I remember how nicely Mint works for me and the family!

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    1 month ago

    Other than massive breakage, I’m not sure. Completely reinstalling and reconfiguring my setup is a pain in the ass, in part because of my slow internet connection. But damn if Ubuntu isn’t trying to find out.

  • Trimatrix@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    When the Distro starts talking about enterprise features during the installation process (looking at you canonical)

  • hypeerror@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    An operating system is a means to an end. I’m not looking to critique a package manager, I’m looking to get work done. If it can support the applications I need it’s perfect.

  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    Previously? Some schmuck changing all the windows to be left-handed, immediately before a long-term-support feature freeze.

    Zero percent surprised by many other comments throwing shade at Ubuntu.

  • Naz@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    I wait and let everyone figure out what the least broken Linux distro is.

    Debian is stable. Stable is good, for an operating system; because I actually want to use my computer.

    Not play with the operating system for 4-6 hours per day.

    • Peffse@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      I tried so hard to get Debian working on my new build. Problem being: it’s a new build. Debian’s glacial pacing meant my hardware won’t see support for a while. I might try again when Trixie finally releases, but I’m not getting my hopes up.

      So I guess my answer is… I’ll distro hop when stability & support reach equal levels.

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Trixie is usable right now. My server is running it. The final release is expected this summer.

  • Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Similar to other users - repos go down or corporate stuff starts to creep in.

    As long as I get to maintain agency over my system I’m pretty content.

  • chaosCruiser@futurology.todayEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Switched from Fedora to Debian. Here are my reasons:

    1. That computer doesn’t need the latest versions. Debian is new enough for me.
    2. The update GUI has been broken for years. I fixed it once, but then it broke again after a year. I’ve been installing updates from the terminal, because I can’t trust the GUI. I realized I appreciate reliability, and that’s exactly what Debian is all about.
    3. Can’t be bothered to do much admin work like that.
  • deadbeef@lemmy.nz
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    1 month ago

    I’ve changed distro’s a bunch of times personally and for business I have influence in a bunch of times in the last 30 odd years.

    Slackware -> Redhat -> Suse -> Ubuntu -> Debian.

    The reasons for each were ( as best I can recall ).

    Slackware to Redhat was just because a proper package manager made sense at the time. I think the Redhat releases were a bit more up to date too.

    Redhat to Suse was because Redhat stopped doing the free long term releases, the short term ones were too short to be workable.

    Suse to Ubuntu was a similar thing to Redhat with Suse trying to push you into the enterprise version.

    Ubuntu to Debian most recently was due to the Ubuntu releases coming with more and more unwanted crap, we had been running mint on desktops to avoid whatever their mutant gnome reskin was called and then their regular gnome releases, but we were still running regular Ubuntu on servers. Eventually when they started putting pretty core stuff in snaps we decided to move to Debian.

    Hopefully that is the last migration we have to do for a while.

  • wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    The repo servers going down or some unacceptable change to the system defaults. Starting to distribute my browser (or anything else) as only snaps / flatpaks would absolutely do it. Yeah, I’m looking squarely at you, Ubuntu.

  • WFH@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    On my laptops: Debian -> Fedora. Mostly because I couldn’t reliably use my external display on Debian, and because I needed wanted shiny new things. Also new hardware.

    On my gaming rig: Manjaro -> Nobara -> Bazzite. I left Manjaro because the system was slowly getting worse with each update, and I wanted to game, not maintain my system. I ditched Nobara after a botched version upgrade. Bazzite is fine for now.

    • Übercomplicated@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      Lol, I had the same Nobara issue recently. Had to completely reinstall 😭… Installed openSuSe Tumbleweed instead, which I can highly recommend though.

  • ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I made the jump from Manjaro when a bunch of their maintained repos started to … corrode? for lack of a better term, other than that I tend to adapt to whatever my workplace chooses, last place loved Ubuntu, current workplace is all about RHEL, so i’m not going to argue

  • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    I’ve been using Artix Linux for 5 years. Its great, minimal, and does everything I need for my day to day tasks.

    If I were to ever change, it’d probably be because the devs could no longer maintain it. In which case I’d probably just hop to Gentoo.