I haven't really given those a try, ArchLinux happens to have ended my distro-hopping 10ish years ago.
Started with Ubuntu 7.04, bailed when they released the first Unity, went through a few Ubuntu spins, then Debian, then Fedora 15 (that one had lots of issues, the installer repeatedly crashed on me and all, it corrupted my partition table forcing me to testdisk to recover, they didn't have Chromium or any proprietary codecs and apps). I ended up back on Ubuntu for a bit and then took the Arch dive, and been happy ever since and never felt the desire to learn another distro if it doesn't have significant advantages.
My next distro will probably be something like NixOS, the concept is quite appealing but my VM experiments so far haven't convinced me to get rid of Arch just yet. Might start using it on my servers for that sweet immutability and centralized config.
Haha I'm right there with you. The timeline isn't as vast but Arch ended my distrohoppong and NixOS is the only thing really catching my eye these days.
I jumped around various Ubuntu spins, settled on Linux Mint for a while, tried out ElementaryOS for a brief moment, went back to Ubuntu spins then eventually went with Arch in 2019 and haven't looked back.
The immutability and configuration of Nix seems so appealing but at this point I'm really comfortable with Arch and it does everything I need in a pretty sane way so idk if I'd switch anytime soon.
The immutability and configuration of Nix seems so appealing but at this point I’m really comfortable with Arch and it does everything I need in a pretty sane way so idk if I’d switch anytime soon.
Back in 2018, I had the experience of using NixOS. At that time, I noticed that the Nix language had a striking resemblance to Haskell, which stirred up feelings of anxiety within me.
Do you also dislike openSUSE and openMandriva?
I haven't really given those a try, ArchLinux happens to have ended my distro-hopping 10ish years ago.
Started with Ubuntu 7.04, bailed when they released the first Unity, went through a few Ubuntu spins, then Debian, then Fedora 15 (that one had lots of issues, the installer repeatedly crashed on me and all, it corrupted my partition table forcing me to testdisk to recover, they didn't have Chromium or any proprietary codecs and apps). I ended up back on Ubuntu for a bit and then took the Arch dive, and been happy ever since and never felt the desire to learn another distro if it doesn't have significant advantages.
My next distro will probably be something like NixOS, the concept is quite appealing but my VM experiments so far haven't convinced me to get rid of Arch just yet. Might start using it on my servers for that sweet immutability and centralized config.
Haha I'm right there with you. The timeline isn't as vast but Arch ended my distrohoppong and NixOS is the only thing really catching my eye these days.
I jumped around various Ubuntu spins, settled on Linux Mint for a while, tried out ElementaryOS for a brief moment, went back to Ubuntu spins then eventually went with Arch in 2019 and haven't looked back.
The immutability and configuration of Nix seems so appealing but at this point I'm really comfortable with Arch and it does everything I need in a pretty sane way so idk if I'd switch anytime soon.
Back in 2018, I had the experience of using NixOS. At that time, I noticed that the Nix language had a striking resemblance to Haskell, which stirred up feelings of anxiety within me.