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What's the longest you've stayed on a distribution?
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I stayed on Ubuntu on my main computers for 14 years from 2007 to 2021. Ran into some dependency problems and switched to Fedora on my main device, it has been working as a charm.
Not entirely sure, started with Ubuntu in 2007 or 8 I'm guessing. Still on Ubuntu, but the shine is very much off with all their pushing away from .deb files & several other frustrating issues.
It's been a few years since I tried Fedora but I'm kinda still angry at RedHat for the RHEL & Fedora split, that was some bullshit right there. That was a good chunk of why I went away from them, and being purchased by IBM & killing off CentOS hasn't won any popularity contests.
I'm thinking I may have to give real Debian a shot next cycle. I don't want bleeding edge anything, I stick to LTS for about a year past the release of the latest LTS, so Debian's "slow" cycle works fine for me.