Well, having gotten bored and/or feeling like my 8 GB mini server was getting overwhelmed as the RAM was filling (mostly cache admittedly) rather quickly, I plunged into rebuilding it. It’s currently running Alpine Linux and seems to be stable at a very low memory usage (less than 2 GB) for days on end. Perhaps Alpine is less aggressively caching or something. It’s been less than a week, but it seems to be running snappily.
And it’s always good to have an alternate OS on the PC in case of distro breakage. And, while my heart would love the other distro to be Arch-based, it just seems prudent to be on another ‘family’. I had been on Pop_OS for months, but I just wasn’t quite happy there, so I went on a distro hopping marathon (Aurora/Fedora->Nobara/Fedora->DraugerOS/Debian->Aurora). Having tweaked the immutable distro, I think I’ll let it ride for a while. I haven’t spend hardly any time in an immutable distro, so I might learn something new. Despite my hatred in the past of Flatpaks, it seems to be going pretty well.
Anyone else doing the season of distrohopping ? 
Nope … my stockings filled with EndeavourOS. I’ll be hopping over to install it on another system filled with joy! 
I have Alpine Linux in a VM and thinking of moving it to bear metal on one of my older computers.
… and Distro-Hopping is my middle name. 
Very recently, I have decided I want to give Debian a spin. It didn’t work all that well at first. I moved to openSUSE Tumbleweed and while that worked nicely, between EndeavourOS and SUSE, the difference isn’t that large, I felt like, so I went back with EndeavourOS. Now, I wonder if I should go back to openSUSE… Distro hopping is really weird, not gonna lie…
After a couple years on Arch, I moved my main machine back to Debian. I vacillate between Arch and Debian every two years or so. Debian should release its next stable version sometime this coming summer if they keep to their usual routine.
Not really anymore. My desktop is, and will always be EndeavourOS only. I had been doing a bit of distro-hopping on my laptop (Arch, CachyOS, Garuda, and a few others). Then I realized, “why am I hopping through these Arch based distros, and Arch itself, when I have a perfect Arch based system with EndeavourOS already?”
So I’ve settled on Debian on the laptop, the distro that got me started with Linux more than 20 years ago. I’m using Unstable (SID). No intention of hopping around any longer.
Sometimes I almost make myself sick with distrohopping…but I keep doing it.
Oh, I’m quite happy to keep EndeavourOS around, but I gotta see what else is out there
And maybe I’m working on speed records to install things lol.
Yeah @winnyace It is weird…it really is. But darn I can install Linux distros so MUCH faster than Windows…hah.
@eznix, I just can’t keep my shudders down with apt-based systems…so slow…so dated (usually).
@UncleSpellbinder & @ricklinux No no…no…you can’t make me settle down. I’m happiest on Arch based myself, but I have more than one hard drive and more than one machine. I must hop and see what the other side is doing better. And Arch doesn’t seem the best for servers (imo), especially because I use zfs and it’s always lagging behind…and breaking with updates.
OS is just a tool i learnt and you can rice your desktop if you feel bored or play some games , if you still feel bored , go touch grass it would be very useful for your mental health
@rudy-in You’re right. My hobby profession is gardener. I’ve been ordering packages (soil mixes) to launch into seeds by end of month, plus soil for newly arriving (Friday) cacti and succulents. It’s relaxing, but frantic with so many things to do in early spring.
I used to try out a few distros, but somehow the time has passed for me where I tried something new every now and then. Maybe because I don’t have the energy who knows.
But I have to say that I am quite happy with EndeavourOS and I won’t be “hopping” to another distribution any time soon.
I still have the energy and being now retired, I can indulge. I tend to learn something from most distros, hopefully the accumulation of knowledge will help me somehow. I’ve been into Linux since before the 1.0 release, and still learning. I used to enjoy going to conferences and have met most of the luminaries of the early days of Unix (and Linux), but being retired, can’t afford the travel any more.
There are things to be learned from what others know (the maintainers) even if they don’t tend to write books (or…err any documentation at all lol). I learn stuff by reading these forums too, not every day, but very frequently.
Basically, that’s what I do with gardening too, learning exactly what conditions make certain plants flourish. Too bad you can’t take it with you (the knowledge)
I understand that and I think it’s nice that you still have this energy. My comment wasn’t meant to be negative, but unfortunately I don’t have the energy at the moment due to an chronic illness and have to make do with what energy I have left.
Totally understand, I’m just now coming off a two week ‘must resolve heatlh issue’. I thought I felt fine, but realize it was sorta like slowly heating water for frog/lobster, but only after I really did feel better.
Youthful energy is wasted on the young…ha
I’m already tired of trying 
EndeavourOS is running on our computers (mine and my wife’s). It works great! 
And plus, the same EndeavourOS are installed in the virtual environment (for safe “experiments”) and pure Arch 
Everything else is unworthy of my attention 
Reinstalling Endeavour on my 2-in-1 today. “Hopping” back from Mint lol
EndeavourOS is my main OS but I keep another PC with Fedora updated and ready to go in case something breaks with my arch based main distro. No more distro hopping for me on purpose.
That’s kinda what I do…but I do get itchy fingers sometimes when I get an idea in my head
I think I have done my distro-hopping for now. Although I will always have soft-spot for Debian and it’s derivatives, especially Ubuntu, which as some of you may know, is my first Linux and will always be in my heart.
I think openSUSE could safely be considered as a plan B if the EOS devs ever throw in the towel.