My main desktop has been upgraded continuously from RHL5 (no E) in ~1999 to Fedora 38 today.

Well, almost continuously. I’ve done at least one fresh install, when I switched from 32-bit to 64-bit hardware.

Edit: I have used a lot of other distros on other boxes, both physical and virtual - I’ve just stuck with Fedora on that one.

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.

MX and Opensuse

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 using OpenBSD on my desktop since about 2006ish.

I’ve settled on Ubuntu in 2008, but jumped between Gnome, KDE, Unity and LXDE. Then I got a Steam Deck last year and it became my main machine, so now I am not only with its Arch based OS, but I a secondary Arch SD card that I occasionally boot, if I need something not immediately available in SteamOS.

Servers? Debian Since 2019.

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 used Kububtu between 2008 and around 2013, then got so fed up with KDE4 bugs I switched to Xubuntu, and am using that ever since.

So that’s 10 or 15 years depending how you count.

When I want to play, I start a VM, base OS needs to be rock solid.

I personally started on Mint back in 2017. Loved it, but then started getting into virtual machines. So I started disto hopping (installed them in a VM), tried Ubuntu, Tumbleweed, Arch, Fedora, and KDE Neon. Fell on love with KDE Plasma and now I happily use KDE Neon as my daily driver. Tried switching to another distro but found myself missing the many features (the clipboard applet was a game changer for me) and customization that Neon offered so I switched back. Havent found a better distro yet.

I’ve been on Ubuntu since I first got their CDs in the mail. Sadly, they’re determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, and I’m now moved over completely to NixOS. It’s like what they’re trying to do with snaps, but competently executed.

Probably like half a year on Mint. Don’t know for certain.
I’m currently on Tumbleweed which is pretty good, though I do have some minor issues which make me want to just switch to Debian. I do work on this machine, so even minor issues are pretty damn annoying for me.

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).

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…

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.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. It’s surprisingly stable for a rolling release distro.