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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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What is/was your distrohopping journey? (feddit.nl)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by VitabytesDev@feddit.nl to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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For me it was:

Windows (for many years) -> Ubuntu (for a year) -> Arch Linux (for half a year) -> Void Linux (literally 2 days) -> Artix Linux with runit (a month) -> Gentoo Linux (another month) -> Debian (finally, I don't plan on changing it).

Also, when trying to switch from Gentoo to Debian, I fucked up all my data with no backup.

What was your journey?

EDIT: Added Windows

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[–] DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Started on a Windows Vista machine, but I dual-booted Mint on it when it started to run slow.
The software broke or got corrupted, so I installed Lubuntu.
Lubuntu started to freeze, so I installed Mint again.

The hardware was really outdated at this point, so I got a new machine. Windows 8.1.

Got a different new computer with Windows 10. Started trying out lots of distros of VMs.

Switched out the drive and installed... OpenSUSE, I think?
Catastrophic system error during an update, left the system corrupted. I installed Debian.
Another system error (which may have been caused by me) led me to install FreeBSD.
FreeBSD was usable, but not super usable. I installed OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
Catastrophic system error during an update, left the system corrupted. I installed Debian (again).

tldr: Windows Vista -> Mint -> Lubuntu -> Mint again -> Windows 8.1 (new computer) -> Windows 10 (new computer) -> OpenSUSE Leap -> Debian -> FreeBSD -> OpenSUSE Tumbleweed -> Debian again