mmm… I am scared to say the truth (for me)!
Some distros survived only for a few minutes!
Some for 3 or 4 days.
But most of them lasted for like 3 to 4 weeks.
The longest was 2 months!
The only distro that really “survived” was EndeavourOS, honestly 6 months or more before I hop for another 1 or 2 for a few days each.
I hope I won’t be doing it again, I need to relax a little at “home” (i.e. EndeavourOS).
Sometimes I get the feeling that all the distro-hopping I did through the last few decades was really desktop-environment hopping.
But, having settled on KDE Plasma after fully dropping Windows at Version 8, where they threw every visually impaired person under the bus by obfuscating the UI, I have to say, EOS has been incredible. I did try Arch for a while, but came back to EOS because it just smooths out so many of the rough edges you don’t have time to deal with as you get older.
Really enjoying computing again, and that’s on top of the general benefit of actually owning your hardware without the telemetry and adware. Here’s hoping EOS goes from strength to strength, it’s an absolute gem.
100% where I’m at. Like I said above, I’m already very familiar with all the major players in the Linux distro world. DE’s are where I fall when testing, hopping.
It’s pretty much the same with me. I was checking out DE setups. I wanted to see what others did with their DEs. I’ve been mostly disappointed, though there were some that were really really nice.
I really don’t have an artistic bone in my body.
Distro-hopping was a means for me to see who was doing what, and why to improve their DE’s.
It was fun, and a good learning atmosphere to see what the Linux community at large was doing to improve and move Linux forward. I enjoyed doing this very much and it gave me a better insight to how distro’s evolve. It wasn’t wasted time by any means I think. EndeavourOS has been my final resting place it seems now. I tried CachyOS a few weeks back and decided the EndeavourOS community was well established and was up and running real well. It doesn’t hurt trying other distro’s now as things are moving along at a quicker pace then they have in the past because of the new hardware being developed along with the kernal being reformulated to handle all this new stuff. So in short what am I saying? I’m happy here but I still like to see how others are doing so I do occasional venture out to give them a try only to return here to a place I feel more comfortable.
BTW I’ve distro-hopped about 20-25 yrs. now and Linux has never looked better in my opinion.
Rich;)
That’s true…I never imagined I would be running KDE so smoothly ten or fifteen years ago and having HDR (did that tech even exist then?). I even kinda know my way around Plasma now (that’s too big a claim to say I do)
Yes, if I see something interesting I’ll give it a test drive.