What did yall end up settling on?

  • ikt@lemmy.world
    13·
    6 days ago

    Ubuntu 7.04 -> 7.10 -> 8.04 -> 8.10 -> 9.04 -> 9.10 -> 10.04 -> 12.04 -> 14.04 -> 16.04 -> 18.04 -> 20.04 -> 22.04 -> 24.04 -> Fedora J/K Ubuntu 26.04

    I like how sh.itjust.works

    • OR3X@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 days ago

      Haha, I feel that switch to LTS only releases. I was upgrading to every release in the beginning as well but it started to get old real fast. I run Mint nowdays. In the early days I loved testing new distros and tweaking around with my system, but after over a decade working in tech the last thing I want to do in my free time is have to fix my own computer.

    • TeaWithDani@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 days ago

      Hell yeah! I was using Ubuntu 10-14 in college and now back on the train with 24, 25 and 26. Everything just works every time and all the professional apps I need are first class citizens and well supported.

      Ubuntu Server, FreeBSD and OpenBSD are my server distros of choice as well. FreeBSD for a NAS. Gotta pick the right tools for the job!

  • FrederikNJS@piefed.zipEnglish
    19·
    7 days ago

    Ubuntu -> Debian -> Linux Mint -> Fedora -> Arch -> Manjaro -> EndeavourOS -> SuSE Linux -> NixOS

    I’m pretty happy on NixOS now…

    • rethnor@lemmy.zip
      3·
      7 days ago

      I’m close to you, skipped a few intermediate steps though. Ubuntu -> Mint -> Manjaro -> CachyOS

    • festnt@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      6 days ago

      same. not having those big version updates and having control over everything i want from the start just feels so good

      and how incredible stable it is

    • hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      6 days ago

      Same. But I went atomic, bluefin.

      For a stable every day driver? It’s gonna take a lot to get me to switch away.

      Still Debian for my proxmox VMs though

  • A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl
    8·
    6 days ago

    Linux mint and often LMDE.

    is funny, I always end up back at mint.

    It just good, it just works yet let’s me customize.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
    7·
    6 days ago

    At least we can distro-hop. Different needs, different preferences, and we can choose what works best for us. Heck, you can even go hardcore with Yocto and create your own distro!

    Compare that to the poor sods on the Apple and Windows side of the fence. They have to cope with whatever some bigwig thought was best for them. A mediocre one size fits all solution, stuffed to the brim with whatever they fancy. Including ads, malware, and AI everywhere.

  • Jaberw0cky@lemmy.world
    5·
    6 days ago

    I’ve tried hundreds, I have a laptop I just use for bare metal distrohopping… but I’ve just hit 6 months using NixOS on all my PCs and laptops. I strongly recommend everyone give it a go.

  • ItsAlwaysDNS@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    7 days ago

    Ubuntu -> Mint -> Arch -> NixOS

    Ubuntu really drove me away for some time. Only when I got to Mint, I felt that Linux could be a daily driver. Arch made me strangely reinstall it every few days. Not by not working but by having the feeling of dirtying the machine on use.

    NixOS is really what I want to use the rest of my life. Very complicated on first use but definitly worth it (for me).

  • TwilightKiddy@programming.devEnglish
    6·
    6 days ago

    I have this handy little bash function, I think you should use it.

    get-english-ordinal-ending() {
  case "$1" in
    *11 | *12 | *13) printf 'th' ;;
    *1) printf 'st' ;;
    *2) printf 'nd' ;;
    *3) printf 'rd' ;;
    *) printf 'th' ;;
  esac
}