This is kind of the anti-distro hopping thread. How long have you stayed on a single Linux distribution for your main PC? What about servers?

I’ve been on Debian on and off since 2021, but finally committed to the platform since April of this year.

Before that I was on OpenBSD from 2011 - 2021 for my desktop.

Prior to that, FreeBSD for many years, followed by a few years of distro-hopping various Linux distros (Slackware, Arch, Fedora, simplyMEPIS, and ZenWalk from memory).

How long have you been on your distribution? Do we have anybody here who has been on their current distro for more than a decade?

  • Gatsby@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    What are the selling points on endeavour over Manjaro? Or endeavourOS over arch?

    I’ve been on Manjaro a hot minute, and if I were to switch, I think I’d just go to arch. But I don’t personally know anything about EndeavourOS

    • Spunky Monkey@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      EndeavourOS is more or less Arch with an installer. It uses the same repos has Arch, Manjaro has their own repos that they delay the packages update.

      I really don’t have data to prove it, but EndeavourOS seems to run smoother than Manjaro.

      But just use what works best for you.

      • Gatsby@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Oh okay for sure, so if i can install arch than in your opinion should I just use arch instead of Endeavour?

        • Spunky Monkey@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Sure, why not. I choose Endeavour at the time because I couldn’t be bothered (mostly lack of time) with the installation and configuration of Arch. Now Arch comes with an install script, that takes care of that for you.

          • Efwis@lemmy.ml
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            1 year ago

            archinstall is still not the recommended way to install Arch.

            Warning:

            The recommended way of installing Arch Linux is still to follow the installation guide. archinstall stores all user and (secondary) disk encryption passwords in plain text. [1] archinstall offers different defaults than the regular installation process. When using a system installed with archinstall, please mention so in support requests and provide /var/log/archinstall/install.log.

            https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Archinstall