Yes, if you’ve found your distro, I also don’t see a point in switching, there’s more important stuff than learning how to install and setup your distro everytime you hop. I only hopped, when I wanted to have a clean install because my previous was kinda broken (dirty state over time), and/or wanted to have more control, or try a different desktop-environment. I have now found a distro (NixOS) where I can have all of that at the same time (so no point in hopping anymore for me too).
Comment on How often do you hop distros?
eruchitanda@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve never really understood distro-hopping. Unless you have a reason to switch, why to do it? Or, why to bother?
If you want to check it out, read/watch a review, or test it on a virtual machine. You don’t really – IMO – have a reason to have it on bare metal.
philm@programming.dev 1 year ago
thingsiplay@kbin.social 1 year ago
Especially testing a distro for short period of time makes no sense, because most differences are long term differences. Because installing a new and fresh distro with KDE in example is not very different one from another. Maybe the installation itself differs, if it's Archlinux in example, but most other distros use those graphical, easy to to use installers. They use a different package manager, but in the end it does not matter what it uses; they do all the same job. Most packages are available on most systems.
I really think distro hopping makes no sense, if you just use it for a very short period of time to test it. It's waste of time.
eruchitanda@lemmy.world 1 year ago
… and all of that was a really long way to say I’m very satisfied with my distro.