Linuxmint here for 14yrs or so. Hopped around a lot but have been using LM as my primary OS and daily driver for personal, work AND gaming. (proton is a god send)
EDIT - to clarify I've been consistently on LM now for about 3yrs, not too bad.
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Started on Mint properly in about 2019, but hopped around a little via Manjaro, Garuda, Endeavour and finally came back to Mint full time. These days if I want to try another distro I just install on a separate disk and leave my Mint as my every day install. So full time on Mint since about 2021.
I have been trying Fedora as my secondary too.
openSUSE Tumbleweed KDE since 2019, it never breaks and if you break it you can easily roll back. Yes, there are a lot of updates, but I have a secondary system that I upgrade only once every six months and it works like a charm!
Same, Tumbleweed GNOME since 2019
Probably Debian from 2014 to 2019, when I switched to GNU Guix System. I don't really intend to switch any time soon though so I'll stick with Guix for the foreseeable future.
Used a bunch of distros since somewhere around 2001, but I've kept at least one Gentoo - or Gentoo derivate - machine since 2008. Nowadays my personal machines are all pure Gentoo, with a mix of Debian and *EL for servers.
2008->2012 : Ubuntu, loved it until Unity and the bloatware started
2013->2014 : Arch, as a learning experience, left because kde stuff broke all the time and i really liked the new plasma5
2014->2019 : Opensuse Tumbleweed, loved how they handled packages, the default configs, and how well KDE ran on them, i switched to it mainly because it was at the time the best distro for plasma5, hated btrfs because it kept taking a lot of disk space for it's snapshots.
2019->2023(today) : PopOS, loved how they implemented tiling, and being on a debian based distro is very convenient, don't realy like the outdated repos, and started to like gnome more.
On servers i never left Ubuntu, and have only a couple of projects on CentOS.
I kind of wish Pop!_OS would just dump the Ubuntu repos already and rebase on Sid.
It really is a good windowing environment.
The delta between stock Debian and whatever Ubuntu is doing on top and then having to remove the Snap bits can't be more work than just rebasing on Sid.
On Fedora since 2018. At first my main pc, then my laptop and at last my tablet. Never had big issues with it.
What kind of tablet are you running fedora on? Is it a good experience? What do you do on it?
Ubuntu from 5.04 to 18.04. The memory usage and Gnome redesign got too annoying. I switched to Arch and KDE.
Ubuntu from 16.04 to 22.04. Fedora 36 to whenever that's not the best distro for my needs. Tried NixOS but it wasn't ideal.
I've been using linux for a long time. Typically stuck with Ubuntu and upgrading when the next LTS was released. I did try other flavors like ubuntu budgie as well. Also liked ZorinOS for a year or two.
Then things like elementary were fun to use, but for a daily driver, I like a little more main stream OS and desktop experience.
Currently using Fedora cinnamon for the last year. I have some VMs that probably stay the longest, but for my personal laptop, I usually spend a year or two on it.
Since roughly a decade I use Arch Linux with i3/sway for all my daily computing.
I hopped on Manjaro back before people started flaming it to kingdom come. I'm still using it 4 years later and still loving it 😊 I play with other distros on another computer for funsies, but my home rig stays the same
20+ years on openbsd and debian evenly spread out on different machines, also 5+ years of arch usage.
5 or 6 years using ArchLinux, I'm very happy :)
My main PC has been running Arch without interruptions for about 12 years. I've run Debian on my server for around 15 years now.
It just works. Why change?
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I've only really used Gentoo, Debian and Ubuntu (in that order!), each for years at a time over the past two decades. I suppose it shows how progessively fewer fucks I give about the inner workings of the system.
I also tried to install a copy of... TurboLinux 6, I think? that I got from a Ham Radio swap meet as a kid sometime in the '90s, but I never got it to work.
I've been using Void almost exclusively since ~2019.
Been on Artix Linux for about 3 years. Occasionally there’s a package that breaks, but nothing serious. Been very happy with a minimal environment using Bspwm/sxhkd and the st terminal mainly.
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I've been using Linux Mint (Cinnamon) as my only operating system since 2016. No dual booting.