How often do you hop distros? - eviltoast

Just curious to see what people are up to. I’ve been using Nixos for a while. It’s fabulous and I have absolutely no reason to switch, but part of me is itching to hop to Debian or maybe OpenSUSE. How about you?

  • Gamma@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    I did about once a year until 2018 when I settled on Arch.

    But now I’ve got a server on NixOS and loving it, so I might be switching my laptop soon.

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      1 year ago

      I use NixOs btw Its awesome. Having a stable system config with home-mangere for the user env is pretty nice to just play around with the security of always being able to switch back to a working generation (some exceptions may apply).

      I was messing with the hardware config (which has a warning not to mess with it if you dont know what you are doing) and corrupted my drives.

      I got my previous system back from a clean install in 30 minutes.

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        1 year ago

        Yes, it certainly invites you to tinker and experiment with the system without having to fear a broken state. I got multiple forks for different applications (e.g. helix-editor with a few merged PRs), and configured the system in a detail not comparable to any previous distros I was on. Really like how I can e.g. carelessly switch between different desktop environments (without VM)…