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What's the longest you've stayed on a distribution? (lemmy.sdf.org)
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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?

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[–] carlwgeorge@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Workstations:

I've been using Fedora since 2014, so coming up on a decade. Runner up would be Arch for about three years from 2011-2014. Before that it was a blur of distro hopping.

Servers:

Been using a combination of RHEL and CentOS since 2011, so about twelve years. And yes, I'm still using CentOS even though it's no longer a rebuild of RHEL. I actually think it's better now, because bugs can actually be fixed instead of being closed as "reproducible on RHEL".