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Considering switching away from Fedora and to another distribution. Does anyone have any suggestions for distributions I should consider?

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[–] allywilson@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Here's an incomplete list of my daily drivers since...well, I'm old.

  • QNX Neutrino
  • Mandrake 7.2
  • RedHat 7.1
  • Went back to Windoze for quite a while
  • Gentoo
  • Ubuntu (quite a leap there)
  • OS X
  • Linux Mint
  • Debian
  • LMDE
  • Fedora
  • KDE Neon
  • macOS
  • Fedora Asahi

I'm sure I've missed the odd one or two (and I regularly jumped back and forth with Debian/Ubuntu/Mint for years and years).

I used to distro hop a lot, so if I only used it for less than a month, I haven't bothered to list it.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Love that list. I am also old. I used SLS, Slackware, and stuff with the .99.x release numbers I switched to Red Hat around 4.1 I think and went to Mandrake from there. And then…

You never used Arch? Not even for Asahi?

[–] allywilson@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I built Arch (twice I think) but only ever in a VM to have a look around, never made it my daily driver. Used Manjaro for a couple of weeks, but I wouldn't say it was a daily driver either.

[–] PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago
  • Speak & Spell
  • 150 things in 1 from Radio Shack
  • Simon
  • CP/M
  • DOS 2.1 - 6.22 ?? (DoubleDOS)
  • Dos + Desqview X (I spell that right?)
  • Slackware (Linux 0.99pl13) (home)
  • Windows 95 & Linux
  • DEC OSF-1
  • OS/2 Warp (work) / Slackware Linux (home)
  • Windows 98, 98se & Mandrake Linux
  • Domain Aegis (Apollo workstations) (w) & Mandrake and maybe Redhat Linux (h)
  • HP-UX (w) & Mandrake Linux (h)
  • SunOS & Solaris & HP-UX & Aegis & AIX & os/390 (zSeries) & IRIX (w) & Redhat or Mandrake Linux (w & h)
  • PClinuxOS
  • Gentoo
  • Linux mint / Ubuntu