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

    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