3 years on EndeavourOS and no end in sight
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Been using Ubuntu, or more recently, Kubuntu since 2006. Not sure that counts as a distro change. Can't say enough good things about KDE these days though.
I’ve been on Fedora for about 7 years. My server flips between Ubuntu and CentOS every couple of years.
About two years, running Manjaro KDE. Runners up are Linux Mint, every major flavor of Ubuntu, and I briefly tried elementary OS. Manjaro has been my favorite for a while now!
I'm on Debian since 2012 and before that it was Ubuntu from 2008 to 2012
I have been on Archlinux since the end of 2008. I've only installed it three times though. So i guess i fit the more than a decade thing
Yeah, I used Arch for a while in those days. It still had a curses-based installer. I had KDEmod and oss4 because PulseAudio was hot garbage.
My longest was when i went 100% Full time on my main machine (no dual boot), I stopped distro-hoppping. I Installed Debian stable when it first came out (Jessie) and stayed with it until it shifted to "old-stable" which was a little bit over 3 years.
A lot of people give Debian stable a hard time but i found it worked well. Most software that i needed to be a little bit newer i could get from the backports repository. It was only at the end of it's lifecycle that i noticed started running in to software being a little to old for what i wanted to do. Then i went back to distro-hopping for a while until i found my next home. :-)
Workstation: Ubuntu approximately 18 years. (2004)
Servers: Debian approximately 25 years. (1998)
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.
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.
Started with Ubuntu for just a year on desktop and Debian on server for nearly 10 years. Desktop switched in this time from arch to Debian, back to arch, and finally to Fedora. This will never change. Debian - server, Fedora - desktop.
I tested some others in VM: elementary, SuSe, Archcraft, kubuntu, lubuntu, xubuntu, PopOS, manjaro. None of these passed my expectations for a bare metal install.
On phone: mobian, manjaro, postmarket and the winner danctnix-arch. But I want to give postmarket a second chance.
Archlinux since 2009
So 14 years
I used Manjaro for 3 years 2018-2021 on my laptop. I think that's the longest yet. Been using EndeavourOS since, almost 2 years now.
My main PC has been running Arch without interruptions for about 12 years. I've run Debian on my server for around 15 years now.
It just works. Why change?