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What's the longest you've stayed on a distribution?
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Archlinux. Many years ago, not sure exactly when, but more than 10years. Last distro I really used before Arch was ZenWalk, slackware based. Arch was the only one that after many tries and over the years remains the most consistent, simple and reliable that I can manage without much effort.
After using on my personal computers Arch I still tried and used on the work machines Ubuntu lts releases. It gave so much problems that I just now use Arch everywhere and anytime I get a new work machine it's what gets installed too.
I have to say that I was a serious heavy distro hoper back in the days and tried basically everything that existed. Just not gentoo. But fedoras, mandrakes, mandrivas, knopix, slackware, bsd, suse, etc, I regularly spent time with them all and was changing a lot and tried many new releases. The longest I've been with a distro was ZenWalk, more than a year or 2 and then Arch appeared on my radar and once I jumped ship, never got the need for anything else.
Edit: Checked some math I think I use arch more than 15years now.
That's the first mention I've seen of ZenWalk. Yes, I used that in the 2007-2008 timeframe. I actually cleaned out of storage some old computers and found one that still booted ZenWalk last summer.
I liked the philosophy. As a distro, it died for a few years, and then was reborn a few years ago.
It really was solid and a pleasure to use at the time. The philosophy of it was really nice and felt clean. After transitioning to Arch I didn't keep up with its changes, so I didn't know it died for a while😔