This is kind of the anti-distro hopping thread. How long have you stayed on a single Linux distribution for your main PC? What about servers?
I’ve been on Debian on and off since 2021, but finally committed to the platform since April of this year.
Before that I was on OpenBSD from 2011 - 2021 for my desktop.
Prior to that, FreeBSD for many years, followed by a few years of distro-hopping various Linux distros (Slackware, Arch, Fedora, simplyMEPIS, and ZenWalk from memory).
How long have you been on your distribution? Do we have anybody here who has been on their current distro for more than a decade?
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.
Yeah, I gave openSUSE Tumbleweed an honest try. Even put the sticker on my daily laptop. But it was annoying enough at just the most inconvenient times to get work done. Things like codec repos not being in sync, or the times that my wifi stopped working after an update (turned out to be a problem with KDEWallet).
When Debian bookworm updated to the latest KDE Plasma, I decided to go there and stay, because it was KDE that I was after, not the rolling release or anything tumbleweed specific. So now I am locked in to a stable system for the next two years, and the flatpaks let me have newer Firefox and Thunderbirds.