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What's the longest you've stayed on a distribution?
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I don't do distro hopping, because I don't believe there is any significant difference between the capabilities provided by individual distro. So, I switched only when changed jobs (2000-2006 Debian, 2006-2018 various RedHat/Fedora distros, 2018- various SUSE distros (Tumbleweed, now Greybeard).
Agreed. Hopping never really made sense to me unless you like to tinker. To me, the distro or operating system is just a means to an end. As long as all the hardware and apps I need continue to work as intended I won't budge. I've been on Ubuntu LTS for 10+ years.
Same. I'm a programmer, but not really a tinkerer anymore. I was on OS X for a long time because it was "a Unix machine with a nice GUI", and it really did "just work". Since switching to Linux in ~2016 or so, I ran Ubuntu on my work machine for a while until Windows Update borked itself and then the installer tricked me into formatting the wrong disk because the labels weren't in the same order. >< I installed PopOS on a lark and couldn't really tell the difference. More recently when upgrading a hard drive I tried Fedora on a lark and it too seems nearly identical. I guess I type "dnf" instead of "apt" now. >< Otherwise everything basically worked out of the box on all the distros and I haven't really cared to look into the differences. (shrug)