Linux

I was on Arch for 4years. Been on Fedora for 3 now. Same install.

I've been on Solus for my office computer for just over 5 years. Works great! I was worried that was going to change when they had a leadership crisis a few months back but that resolved well and Solus is stronger then ever.

The attraction to Solus is that it is rolling and stable. That combination is not common elsewhere.

When Mint had a KDE version I used that for almost four years. Then went to KDE neon and found that to be unstable. Hopped hither and thither, finally made it back to mint.

Having used Linux for 15 years, I just want stable now. Even user cinnamon mint was getting glitchy and updating too frequently. So I've been using the mint Debian edition for more than a few months and love it. IF I had to switch now, I'd just go to Debian.

Fedora for 4 years. Currently playing around with nixOS and ublue

If constantly reinstalling every LTS counts, then I've been on Ubuntu for 7 years, followed by Xubuntu for 6. Then Manjaro for three years (rolling, ofc), and now Steam OS on the Deck for al less than half a year with no plans to switch?

Fedora for over a decade now. I started with Ubuntu in 2007 used it until I installed Fedora 17 in 2012. haven't felt the need to switch.

Linux Mint for AMD, Pop_OS! for Nvidia. Former is workstation, latter is gaming.

I've been on debian since around the time jessie came out, so 8 years it seems. I don't see myself switching anytime soon.

I've been using the same Arch Linux installation now since 2018.

I've been on ubuntu for quite some time now. Experimented with it from 12.04 onward and then fully embraced it since 14.04. I always use the LTS version and it has been rock solid the entire time. I've run kububtu or lubuntu on low end laptops and secondary machines, but nothing comes quite close to normal ubuntu's stability and ergonomics. It's very polished.

I do miss some unity features, like the top bar of windows merging with the top panel (the one with the clocks). Having that extra screenspace was always very useful on modern 16:9 screens. If you open Firefox and look at the size of the web view compared to the screen size, you'll know what I mean.

The recent move to snaps is actually a welcome one security wise. I much prefer closed source software to be bundled as snaps. The startup time for snap programs is drastically better with the newer versions too, so I don't mind it at all on my systems, modern or low end.

The only pet peeve with snaps is that Firefox can't open local files right now. It stops me from using local documentation generated by Rust's cargo and rustup tools.

I initially started out with Puppy Linux on a stick, experimented with fedora at some point and even considered trying arch. But at the end of the day there is only so much time and effort I am willing to spend on my productive system. Ubuntu LTS has just been the perfect fit throughout. So yeah, it's been 10 solid years of ubuntu!

Almost there with OpenSUSE, 9 years and counting. A new machine is running Manjaro for 2 years. I don't think I'd spend a decade with Manjaro.

Thanks to this post i just realized I've been using arch for 9 years. I did hop DEs a bunch up till about 3 years ago when i settled for plasma on Wayland (on? with? Idk), but the arch ecosystem has proven the perfect balance of flexibility and stability (yes i find arch very stable). Before arch i distro hopped almost annually since about 2006.

I started with Linux like many, I guess, by distro hopping. My first experience was with Knoppix in the late 2000s (because I didn't know what a live CD was), then I tried OpenSuse, went on to Fedora (is SELinux still such a pain in the ass as it was back then?) and then to Kubuntu.

If I remember correctly I switched to Arch some time after Plasma 4 came out. About 11 years ago. It was, back then, one of the only distributions that shipped the newest stock KDE that "just worked". Actually that might be wrong, but I didn't know what I was doing with Linux anyways and somehow I liked Arch enough to stay. I used it at home, for work (software development) and at college. And it serves me well in all those areas (minus some minor hiccups).

It's still fulfilling my needs but lately I've been flirting with NixOS. I might change my daily driver once I get a new laptop (still rocking a Thinkpad T430 from 2012 but it's starting to show its age).

I've been using openSUSE since it's early days when it was S.u.S.E. I started using it in the spring of 1998... so what, 25 years? I've used other distros on a second machine, but my main machine has always been SuSE in some form or another. Today it's openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Manjaro ended my distro hopping itch +10 years ago. I occasionally test distros in VM, but nothing has made me want to switch so far.

I originally started with Knoppix in 1998 used that unitl i9 switched to ubuntu warty warthog and following versions until unity came out in then I switched to mint as unity constantly crashed my machine. stayed with mint for like 5 years, then moved to fedora for a year, switched to tumbleweed because I got tired of the SELinux in fedora causing issues.

Been on endeavourOS for a year now, and if i do decide to migrate a gain I will be going full vanilla arch.

I've been hopping between Gentoo and Arch for at least a decade and you can't stop me from doing it again >:P

(Currently using Arch on two systems, bytheway :'D Already thinking of hopping back to Gentoo on the desky one. Maybe try Funtoo. Unless there's a Funthree :thinkyface: ;P )

Many years on Arch but I've been on Fedora since 35 and I'm reasonably content with it.

I was using openbsd for a while but my work required fully functional slack.

I have used Mandrake / Mandriva for over 10 years. Since 2010 I use Arch. So also already for more than 10 years.

Personally, I have never understood why some people regularly change the distribution. When I am interested in a distribution, I simply install it in a virtual environment for testing.

I've been running crux on my main workstation since 2014 now, and never looked back. Though nowadays, OpenBSD feels pretty appealing to me (I run it exclusively on my ~6 VPS).

First one was SuSe, but I've been with Ubuntu since the early days... Sometimes I'll install another distro to have a peek, but I always revert to Ubuntu after a short while...Only time I felt the urge to change, was when they shipped it with unity as default...

Several years of Linux Mint on desktop and Ubuntu LTS on server.

Initially my Linux journey started with Debian. Then I tried various things for both desktop (Mandrake, SuSE, Gentoo...) and server (like FreeBSD) but ultimately went back to Debian-based things mostly out of lazyness.

I used Manjaro for 3 years 2018-2021 on my laptop. I think that's the longest yet. Been using EndeavourOS since, almost 2 years now.

As my personal day-tp-day system, It looks like 8 years of Ubuntu. I have a file server that just will not die that's been running Ubuntu LTS since 2008 though.

Here's my Distro journey:

1996-1997 - Debian (Still dual booting Windows)
1997-2002 - RedHat Desktop 5.0-7.3 (Linux became my main day-to-day OS!)
2002-2003 - Crux
2003-2008 - Gentoo
2008-2012 - Ubuntu / Ubuntu LTS
2012-2014 - Mint
2014-2022 - Ubuntu / Ubuntu LTS / Xubuntu (I switched back to Ubuntu as my personal OS since I had deployed Ubuntu to over 100 systems at work, and I had a little netbook with Xubuntu) 
2022-???? - LMDE 5 (Linux Mint - Debian Edition)

Still loving LMDE.

I dabbled with Linux/Unix (Suse, Gentoo, Debian, Slackware, Arch, NetBSD, a little Solaris, a couple of those long-dead floppy/livecd/liveusb systems... and some less-unix things like BeOS) starting in about 1998 and slowly moved fully over to Linux as the daily driver. My usual distro for personal machines has been Arch since about 2004, though I've typically had *buntu, and/or CentOS (starting at cAos, now migrating to Rocky) machines for some things I do professionally, and at least one personal Debian server.

I did a lot of environment hopping early on, but settled on XFCE from about 2007-2017, then KDE from about 2017-current once Plasma5 got its resource consumption under control. I've been playing with Hyprland a little bit recently, just because it's the least-broken way to fiddle with a Wayland environment I've found, but I like floating+snapping better than tiling so I doubt it'll become my daily driver.

I think my first Arch install was off 0.2 or 0.3 media in mid-2002, and there are probably only a month or two in that time that I haven't had at least one Arch box, so that's two decades.

Two years, Arch. Idk why but it feels comfy. Rolling release for the most up to date bugs + the AUR 👌🏼

MX and Opensuse

Pop os, for well over a year, though i wanna switch to arch, just gotta get my nas setup first, so i can move my pirateted movies and roms, and then i just gotta get the arch iso to actually work, plenty of other Linux distribution isos work, just not arch, even most arch based isos work, the reason why I'm only talking about isos is that im just building a big collection of isos but yea pop os it great just looking to change so i can get a lot more experience with Linux

I've been using OpenBSD on my desktop since about 2006ish.

I've been on Ubuntu ever since I switched to Linux 7 months ago, tbh I don't understand distro-hopping. I'm not any tech wizard, and Ubuntu fulfills all my criteria: worked out of the box, worked faster than Windows, hasn't broken yet 👍

All I do is run Firefox and Steam on my laptop anyways :/

I've been on Fedora Linux for almost a year now. Considering that I started using Linux when the pandemic started, you can figure out that it's my distro of choice now. Also, I like that Fedora is, for the most part, quite developer friendly and had great packages and software installed when I first started using it.

I stopped having time (or inclination) to mess around with multiple distributions after getting out of college and into real life. So... Since at least about 2002, with Debian.

Ive been on Linux Mint with XFCE for about a year now, I think that's a new record for me lol

I distro hopped quite a bit before I settled. Now been running Arch coming up a decade. Before my current PC build, my previous continuous install was 6 years old.

I've DE hopped a number of times throughout that time though. Now been using KDE for several years and happy to stay.

Been using Slackware since just prior to Slackware 15 coming out. I've moved almost everything I use over to it as well besides one Fedora server I keep around.

I used the same Ubuntu install since at least 18.04, possibly back to 16.04 (can't quite remember if I upgraded to 18.04 as a fresh install), up until my upgrade to 22.04 from 20.04 failed. I took that opportunity to try a different distro, which eventually led to my current KDE Neon install.

I downloaded Ubuntu 5.04 and have mostly stuck with Ubuntu for almost 20 years. I've tried other distros over the years but I've always come back to Ubuntu.