I was on the same distro for ~10 years, roughly 2010-2020, before I got pulled into the "Apple ecosystem". (Still use Linux on all my servers, though!)

I use(d) Arch, btw 😛

Probably ubuntu from 05-16. Switched to arch around then, and been on manjaro since 2020.

3 years on EndeavourOS and no end in sight

@unix_joe: I've been using SUSE with KDE since SuSE Linux Personal 7.0. So, 20+ years?

Whatever the LTS Ubuntu server version is for the last 8ish years and Arch as my desktop for the last 2.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. It's surprisingly stable for a rolling release distro.

Two decades.

Probably Debian for six or seven years, but my time on Manjaro must be close by now and I see no reason to change

Been using Ubuntu, or more recently, Kubuntu since 2006. Not sure that counts as a distro change. Can't say enough good things about KDE these days though.

@unix_joe I stayed on Linux Mint Cinnamon from 2018 to 2023. I just recently changed to Fedora/Endeavor with Gnome.

About two years, running Manjaro KDE. Runners up are Linux Mint, every major flavor of Ubuntu, and I briefly tried elementary OS. Manjaro has been my favorite for a while now!

Been on Linux Mint since v17.3 (Released on December 4, 2015) Why change? It works for me ;-)

I've been staying with Arch for a while now, maybe a few months. Might switch to NixOS in the future but right now I'm happy. I used Fedora, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, etc before that.

I was on Debian from around 1996ish to 2019.

Been on Pop OS since then.

I've had an HP Dev One with Pop!_OS for right about a year now. I've done plenty of hopping and testing of other distributions prior to last year, but started with Ubuntu in 2009/2010 and have always felt most comfortable with Debian based OSs.

I was on Arch for a couple of years on and off (had only 256 GB of storage on my old laptop, so I didn't dual boot), stopped using Linux for around a year, and now I've been on Fedora for a year and a half.

Though I thinking of going back to Ubuntu on their next LTS release, part of the reason I wanted cutting-edge distros was because I wanted updated packages, especially Gnome as every update brought big (positive) changes. Most of it seems to have stabilized with only small creature comforts being added now, so I want a stable distro that doesn't cause Windows to ask me to enter my encryption key every couple of weeks due to a kernel update.

Lets see. Debian since 1997... so 26 years. Back then you had to order 12 CDs through the post.

Ahhh, when did Windows 10 come out? I've been on mint since then, though I've tried live discs/drives of the major distros here and there. I like mint, it works for me.

Probably Linux Mint or Solus, the problem with Mint was the older package base. I loved all of the built-in tools they had, but everything else was so far behind and Cinnamon doesn't even support Wayland. Solus was the next one I tried, but it has slowly been dying, with their lead dev resigning and the guy maintaining Budgie taking over again, I'm not sure how trustworthy they really are at this point. I'm also aware of the whole serpentOS deal they have with Ikey right now, but honestly that doesn't really bring me any comfort. I switched to endeavor and I can't see myself moving away from it any time soon. I did have a brief run with Nobara, but the fact that it was based on Fedora and Fedora usually takes some hoops to jump through for extra package repos and there are some packages that require compiling from source, so I didn't really want to mess with it anymore.

I have been 11 years on Fedora.

Before 2009 I was getting used to Linux with Ubuntu. By 2009 I switched to Fedora. Since 2020 I'm on Manjaro. Inbetween I payed many other distros a visit such as Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian and Puppy.

On servers I am for no specific reason on Debian and Ubuntu.

Been on Manjaro for about 4 years for my gaming PC but been running a Debian flavor for servers since Woody.

For servers I’ve been using Ubuntu Server since ~2016. For my desktop I used Ubuntu up to 2019 when I switched to Arch.

I've been using debian since around 1995 or so. Guess I'm coming up on 30 years of using debian. Heh. I believe it was the pre 1.0 version, on the 1.x kernel line and using the pre-elf binary format. I remember that there wasn't an installer - a friend had gotten it cobbled together, and we installed my 80mb hard drive into his computer and manually copied stuff over until it "worked". I've been using it ever since. I just installed debian bullseye on a new laptop on Friday.

I'd say archlinux. Been a arch user since 2016 I believe, and honestly really like the distro :)

Ubuntu since 2008. I like the large selection of software in their Apt repositories. And I have never felt a need to use anything else, as it gets the job of an operating system done just fine.

I started with Gentoo in 2007 on old Apple hardware (my laptop which was getting old, but I didn't want to replace it). I soon realized that it was kind of a waste of time trying to get all those little details, like device drivers for obscure Apple peripheral. All I really need is an OS that just works, so I can get my work done. I bought a netbook that officially supported Linux (Dell Inspiron Mini 10) and used it for a good 5 years as a daily driver, then eventually upgraded to a more powerful machine, but kept using Ubuntu, and have been ever since.

I've been on Debian for about 10 years now. I know there's plenty of other great distros, but now I want one that's stable and just works.

Debian (testing) at least since 2018 and I don't plan to switch. Before that I was hopping a bit between ubuntu based distros and manjaro. On servers I always use debian stable.

I'm not much of a distro-hopper. I think I've been on just four distros on my daily-driving desktop & laptop since about 1999:

• RedHat (around 1999, starting with 6.0)
• Mandrake (around 2001?)
• Ubuntu (around 2006)
• Arch Linux (around 2012 - today), and no intention to hop. In fact, I recently bought a new PC and installed Arch again. On the previous machine, I installed it once and it rolled nicely its entire lifetime.

My personal server has been running Ubuntu LTS for ages, I might have run debian a long time ago, but I'm not sure anymore. Nowadays I run a container setup, and those are running on Alpine Linux.

I switched 2010 from Windows to Linux.

• Ubuntu (2010)
• Linux Mint (2012)
• Arch Linux (2020)

I have been using the Debian-based Open Media Vault on my home server for... probably four, five years now, at first just for a cheap dumb "NAS", which has slowly featurecrept itself into being my personal replacement for damn near everything except E-Mail.

On my daily driver(s) though... tough to say, because I was distribution-hopping for a while. But currently, I seem to have found my home on Arch. I had tried Ubuntu, Linux Mint and a few others every now and then, but at the time always went back to Windows for one reason or another.

But... ironically, since I am now working for a Microsoft Partner and thus play a lot less games and no longer have to send out applications or use specific tools for vocational school or uni or something, I am no longer bound to Windows in my time off, so I have been using Manjaro for a few months at first, before I reinstalled and went to Arch proper.

Every laptop I've owned since ~2015 has been running Kubuntu.

Archlinux since 2009
So 14 years

I'm on Debian since 2012 and before that it was Ubuntu from 2008 to 2012

On servers I've stuck with Ubuntu LTS's since 2017. They've always been rock solid, even if the 2-4 year upgrade can be time consuming, it's not often enough for me to try something else. The support and documentation is excellent. I find it hard to think of a single reason to even try something else.

On the desktop I probably have spent most time on Ubuntu, or Ubuntu derivative like Kubuntu, but I now use EndeavourOS and I have no plans to switch or hop or try anything else. So I'll likely end up on Endeavour far longer.

I have been on Archlinux since the end of 2008. I've only installed it three times though. So i guess i fit the more than a decade thing