According to my accounts, I have been using GNU / Linux for almost 2 years. It is a negligible amount of time when compared to the existence of the kernel, or of the older distributions; and of course two years have not made me an expert. But if they made me a hopper distro and I must accept that much of my knowledge about the system comes from that era. But in the long run it was not a pleasant thing.
I don't think I have to explain what he is hopping distro at this stage. Jump from distribution to distribution looking for something you never find. The following is only my personal experience and in no way should correspond to that of other users.
The rite of passage
Years ago I came across a website that explained the advantages of free software and invited you to switch to a Linux distribution as soon as possible. To this date I have a high regard for that page today abandoned and lacking self-control. So I downloaded, how I think most of us started in this era, Ubuntu; in its version 8.10 Intrepid Ibex. At that time my esteemed coffee maker ran with 256MB of RAM, so it was impossible for me to test it.
But I didn't give up. Every day I would see snapshots of the prettiest desktops I could find, read about layouts, and learn how to burn ISO images. As I recall, it took days to download the image. It wasn't until my computer had a memory upgrade that I was able to test it, but by then I had already exchanged my disk for a more current one (9.04) with a teacher, a trade-off more than advantageous for me.
I started using Ubuntu sporadically, mostly because of how surprised the system left me. And there the adventures began. When I installed my first distribution, Fedora 14 Laughlin, a series of strange things started that caused me to switch distributions.
From various Fedora installations, I have switched to Ubuntu, Xubuntu, OpenSUSE, Debian, LinuxMint, Crunchbang, Trisquel, Mageia, ArchLinux, Archbang and others whose names have been lost in the gaps of my memory; and in countless desktop environments and window managers.
Eventually I got tired of this. I recognized that this was not advantageous for me and not even for the community that gave me so many options to try. What happened?
Doom and foolishness
To get rid of distro-hopping the first thing I had to do is think about why I started. Fedora was fun, but every once in a while it would send me an incomprehensible error and that surely other people would have ended up kicking back to Windows, or whatever they will use. Even today I have no idea what happened or why the television screenshot it haunted me in every distribution I played. I asked and informed myself as much as I could, but then the only solution that appeared to me with my limited knowledge was to escape to another distribution.
One day Crunchbang came along and the mistake was almost magically over. And from then on it was not to migrate from distribution due to the Error, but to try everything that crossed my mind. There was no longer a remedy.
Make things cost you
One of the main drivers of distro-hopping is the lack of cost of distributions. Before I get beaten up for asking for expensive distributions, I must say that I love that there is nothing to pay for a system like this. It is the dream of every consumer: indisputable quality and an exaggeratedly good price.
But the vast majority of distributions want to make it too easy for you. Modes live, distributions out-of-the-box and other things that make it easy to migrate between popular distributions in a few hours. My personal best is to have switched from OpenSUSE with Gnome to Fedora in 3 minutes after almost an hour of installation. The fátidic error haunted me.
When one successfully installs ArchLinux for the first time, things change. Every time he tried, he failed miserably. It was long after that I was able to put together my first full environment on my coffee maker, and the Error was far from showing. All of those bugs have made it possible for my last clean Arch install to be fully functional in less than 24 hours, so my new record is far from the weeks of hitting the table.
When I swapped my first hard-to-build Arch for Archbang I couldn't help but feel like it wasn't worth wasting so many hours on that. If things cost you, even symbolically; you feel more attached to them.
Valuing my working hours to leave Debian in my coffee machine and ArchLinux in my laptop functional has been the first step to not change distribution anymore.
There is nothing good in it
Using distributions so little time leaves us nothing. I used Mageia a few days and I can't say more about it than I liked the configuration center. Do I know what it is called? No. Did you know how to use your package system? Neither. Did I learn anything? Maybe, but it wasn't something he didn't already know.
This knowledge does not help anyone. You stop using the distribution and forget about it, and you can't help who needs it. Total loss.
Also, we spent time leaving things as they were. I am a Vim user, and after a while the ~ / .vimrc file becomes more and more indispensable and valuable. Losing it was not pleasant at all and being constantly putting it on a USB or respándando in Dropbox was not pleasant. Now multiply it by all the programs you can use, and many whose settings are lost because you don't have a file like this.
I was able to leave the / home partition alive and well, but I've always found it weird to leave the old configuration files and delete them afterwards doesn't seem to solve anything. But regardless of this, installing the packages we need means wasted time. Time does not return.
Not following the fashions
Beyond any impulse hispter, not following the latest fad distribution is good. You guarantee yourself a more unbiased view if you get to try it, waste no time in case something goes wrong, and other benefits, such as some form of loyalty to your penguin color and flavor. As subjective as it may seem.
In this last era I switched from Chakra to Aptosid, then to SolusOS, and then to Cinnarch. Since they didn't work, I went to Crunchbang Testing, which I do accept my picky video card. But I switched to ArchLinux. Because I no longer wanted to change, because it is no longer the distro fashionable or by the AUR. I can argue a thousand and one reasons, but I decided to stick with this one.
Remember that the mode Live and virtualization are our friends.
Tips and conclusions
I consider jumping from distro to distro a bad habit. There will be those who will contradict me and everything, but I believe so. Anyway, I have some tips for you jumps be more pleasant:
- Verify that the distribution meets your needs, or rather; have the packages you need. There are distributions so new - and attractive - that no.
- Do not rush to install. Test your hardware first. I had problems with the video card, the wireless internet and the sound. Not checking it and not knowing how to correct it are fatal mistakes
- Do long-term tests I tested Chakra for 15 days to see how long it could hold up in KDE. I got a good impression, and I have a much better criterion to think about it.
And before I get lynched, the sea is big enough for all the fish. That perfect distribution must be there, but I'm far from finding it. And I'm not in a rush.
Well, we must admit that many of us had this problem when we were newbies, it is something that changes over time and it is very normal that it happens as well as that we stop trying and testing although there are exceptions.
There are people who trying one stay with it forever. The problem is not testing, but rather that it becomes a problem. I don't even remember how many Fedora discs I have.
There are people who trying one stay with it forever <- it happened to me with Slackware 😛
Nice article colleague. It is in many points very true. Before finally staying in ArchLinux, I went through all the known distros: Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Chakra, among others. Now, that I spent a few days with several of them, I can give my opinion, more or less subjectively, to some of them.
In addition, I fully agree with what you say. One of the ones that has given me the most mistakes 'in my life' is Fedora. And well, not to mention that sometimes, when you update the system, everything breaks, and it does not start again.
Very good this ..
We have been talking about this topic on this page 😀
http://www.lasombradelhelicoptero.com/2012/06/confesiones-de-un-distrohopper.html
http://www.lasombradelhelicoptero.com/2012/09/confesiones-de-un-distrohopper-ii.html
One starting in Linux enters this disease grabbing his own. After using, studying and installing several distros, from what I see, you always get to Arch. The syndrome "Once Arch is installed, you never leave it" is true, by the way I found a similar one, contagious Slackwaritis.
Long live Arch syndrome
I had not read these articles. I'm afraid we are more affected than I expected.
Over here there is another. I always end up going back to Debian, even though I'm really looking forward to Arch. About two weeks ago I installed it and it walked out the first time, but due to lack of time to "fix" it I had to go back to Deb. Lately what makes me most noisy are the desks, none of them convince me, except for Gnome 2.30 🙁
I do not know if it is unfortunate but I also suffer from this same disease although I give more time to the distros normally 1 or 2 months, although the one that has lasted the least has been fedora, it is good that there are bugs with external packages but it is that with Fedora skipped errors even with the packages that came in the iso, even opening the calculator, it is something unacceptable, it lasted a week on my hard disk, but what if this has helped me is to find wonderful distro like mageia or sabayon that maybe one day one of them remain by default on my hard drive, well I don't know if it's so much disease.
One question: one of the consequences of being a distro hopper is the constant formatting of partitions, does this affect the health of my hard drive?
Every piece of hardware has a useful life ... I don't know, but I imagine that cleaning (formatting) and writing too much to the HDD shortens its useful life a bit, these are just my assumptions 🙂
It is a very good reflection. Many of us can feel identified with your experience on various points. The truth is that without this journey we would not be where we are, nor would we know what we know. And the truth is also that, despite so many distros, all this time we have been using Linux.
What a beautiful phrase.
I have already found the perfect distro for my pc with Manjaro Xfce !!!
Excellent post, although I have contained myself from jumping between distributions. The first one I tried was Ubuntu and although I did try a few times others such as Mandriva, Opensuse, Kubuntu and Arch, in the end I was left with Ubuntu on my laptop and Arch on my netbook. I like Arch, but I only have it on my netbook, because I don't use it as much and Arch needs to get his hands on it. Since I use my laptop for work, I have Ubuntu (which I like a lot) because in minutes I can reinstall or update it and it works all at once.
On the other hand, I confess that what I have changed a lot is the desktop administrator, going through gnome 2.x, gnome 3.x, KDE, XFCE, Cinnamon, Unity, among others, and I'm even waiting for elementary to come out now stable for try your manager Gala (which looks beautiful and very functional in your latest ad http://elementaryos.org/journal/meet-gala-window-manager
Gala looks excellent, I had no idea of her existence. If one day I get fed up with tiling or xfwm, it changed me directly.
hahaha we all went through that to feel comfortable if you are naughty you realize that a distro is not going to fill you, red hat happened to me, then open suse, probe ubuntu, I liked it was the best for me but I noticed something was heavy I installed many things, The logical thing to do is go to Debian I found everything I wanted stability and all the good things that Ubuntu offered but another pegon wanted more current packages probe arch and there is no going back, of the previous distro I stay with Debian for servers and stability is the king, of ubuntu innovation and an almost perfect desktop, open suse also another desktop but I never liked rpm packages, Arch opens your eyes more and I like his philosophy which tries to maintain it. I currently have 4 years arch.
Hmm, I manage some Lenny and Squeeze servers that every so often you have to tap the CPU -or better reboot them- because they crash, with Arch it never happened to me.
I'm not very distro hopper. The distros I have last for me at least 4 months. Meanwhile, I am testing isos in VirtualBox. However I do it for the mere interest of mastering them.
«I'm not a very distro hopper. The distros I have last at least 4 months. » ????
Haha, that's precisely being a distro hopper
at least 4 months, or at least 4 months. the post talks about more frequent changes
Oo! I accidentally became one: S
That such.
In my personal adventure in the LINUX world I have tried practically everything, both debian and derivatives such as Suse, Mandriva and RedHat and derivatives (regarding RPM packages) and the truth is I do not know why I return to Arch Linux. In Desktops (DE) and Window Managers (WM) I have tried everything too and always return to GNOME (on my laptop) and LXDE on the desktop. It is true that you have to spend a little time to put it at ease but it is nothing to write home about. Ubuntu and Suse (desktop) and Red Hat (Servers) started me on LINUX and the truth after practically 10 years I have never regretted having migrated from Windows to LINUX.
A very interesting reflection;). I honestly also went there and that nervous tic XD lasted a long time. But in the end it annoyed me from trying and moving around. What I think helped me a lot, in addition to knowing, is to form a broader criterion, that is, I do not criticize for criticizing certain distributions despite the fact that there are some that I do not like at all or do not fit me. Personally, I do not think it is a waste of time, but rather it is a way of learning and knowing, it may not be the most orthodox, but it always leaves you something good.
By the way, why are they bad with Fedora, what has the poor thing done to them? if it is a love, without a doubt one of my favorites;).
You're right. If I hadn't met Arch, he'd still be a red-bone Fedorian (or blue, for that matter)
When the future of Kubuntu was not known, I started looking for alternatives and the first one I tried stayed (Chakra Project) and I didn't keep looking for comparisons. It is not in me to change frequently and less when everything works fine, equally for other devices I only use Debian.
Totally, you distrohoppeás -especially at the beginning- until one day UPS !! You found that such a distro is totally awesome and although you can relapse for a while, if the distro you use really convinces you when you compare it point by point with the other distros, the moment comes where you realize that _that_ is your distro.
I like to think that if I did not use Arch I would use Gentoo or Slack, but the truth is that compiling everything continuously would burn my head and using Slack would be to throw away the Ninja motorcycle that is Arch for a Ford T to go around town on Sundays ( before taking a nap!).
It is true, but in the end it always comes to the conclusion that there are no reasons not to stay with Arch. It is that Arch is what everyone wants GNU / Linux to be.
I think this is an epidemic :). I started like most with Ubuntu, then I tried Xubuntu and Kubuntu for a while, then, by necessity (I stayed with a 62 mhz k500) I used the dear DSL, I got a taste for the minis (not the skirts, although too) , probe Puppy, Tinycore, Slitaz and some more; With a new machine I went back to Ubuntu (especially because I share the machine with my brother and he always hates me in every jump) and I created another partition where I installed debian testing, the latter lasted two years until a week ago I installed Chakra (since there I am writing). Opensuse could never install it (video), Fedora also had its chance. I chose to make an exclusive partition to test distros, although now I don't jump that much, I'm a little old, but for me it's a pleasure to try a new distribution or WM, it's a vice that I break out with a cold beer and a cigarette. Sorry for the billet and greetings to all the jonkis distro.
Very good article. For now I do not think that I have caught 'the disease', and maybe I went through ArchLinux very quickly: Mint -> Ubuntu -> ArchLinux -> Fedora. I agree with the rest that Fedora is a somewhat sloppy distribution in its development, and throws strange bugs after each update. Ubuntu and Mint are very comfortable distributions to use, but when using them for a while - and this is just my impression - one kind of stalls in his learning of GNU / Linux.
The definitive cure, surely, is to build a "Linux from scratch", but you have to have enough knowledge of the OS (and courage) to do it.
ElementaryOS is the one I have been waiting for for a long time (Obviously 'Moon'). I tried it recently and I found it great. I think I'll stick with that one, but unfortunately I'm also a distrohopper and I'm not sure if I'm going to fulfill what I said before xD ..
Greetings .. Good post
Very good article, it goes without saying that I feel absolutely identified 🙂
And, coincidence or not, Arch seems like the final destination of many people ...
All the best
I started in this world as a permanent and absolutely faithful user of Mandriva. The problems that I had with the Wi-Fi of my laptop from the 2010 version of Mandriva forced me to test other options in search of a solution that I could not find in Mandriva. This is how I became a "semi-distro hopper", moving to Ubuntu, then to Linux Mint, then briefly to Arch, then to OpenSuse, then to Sabayon, to return to Mandriva in its 2011 version, in which I stayed for 3 months before returning to stay permanently in OpenSuse.
As of mid-2010, I also distro-hopped on my desktop, especially after having had a very pleasant experience with GNOME 2 (I have always been a convinced KDE user), so I used it as an excuse to install OpenSuse (with GNOME) and then Linux Mint Debian Edition. I loved GNOME 2, and although I have tried almost every type of environment (I was tempted to install XFCE several times), the evolution of GNOME made me exclusively take refuge in KDE again, so Linux Mint Debian Edition left its desktop on my desktop. instead to Sabayon, then to PCLinuxOS, and then to Chakra before returning to OpenSuse.
All this without counting the number of distros that I have tried in VirtualBox, since I like to take a look at the distros that are catching my attention and their environments.
Now it seems that the great stability and great experience with OpenSuse and its KDE are acting as an effective "antidote" against distro-hopping xD
Hello good article, it happened to me at the beginning when I started in GNU / linux on the laptop I have debian-cut and a w7 that I do not use since at the moment I have been able to configure everything I needed, on the PC I have Archbang (for the little time I had for Arch) Sabayon (I installed it to test it, thanks to the Perseus blog post and it stayed) and Wxp (Diablo 3 and multifunction printer).
I love Arch as much as his philosophy as his great Pacman and yaourt, but maybe if in some update error my team breaks my aztualize now weekly since I'm not at home, I might think about putting Debian as the main distro, I don't know which Arch-Sabayon would sacrifice.
Well I do not roll it up again
Interesting article, with which I largely identify. After my entry into Linux in 2008, with Ubuntu, I ran away from the advent of Unity in 2010. I switched to KDE, with LinuxMint, and a couple of months later I went to Chakra. But in mid-2011 I wanted to try Arch, and since then I have not changed it for anything. I have been installed with it for almost a year and I have no plans to change it in the future. It allows me to test different environments and packages as I please, which already satisfies my endless curiosity, haha.
Interesting article. In my case, I have tried everything a bit and that has served me to realize that in the end, my preferred distribution is and always will be Debian.
Sometimes I want to abandon it because of the "Versionitis" issue and how outdated its packages can be, but hey, the comfort I feel with this distribution always forces me to stay with it.
Another detail is that working with Debian is much easier than with other distributions. Anyway <3 Debian
The same thing happens to me but with Fedora. As much as I try and try, attentive to the improvements advertised in this or that distro, I always go back to the blue hat (even though the one I have in the photo is brown… hehe.
A possible pseudo-cure to distrohopping? buy a disk of, let's say, 2 terabytes at least, and install all the major distros. Can you imagine, maintaining and updating like 15 or 20 distributions at the same time? haha, awful madness.
regards
I test distros from Virtualbox and USB sticks but will not neglect DEB packages and the KDE desktop (barring catastrophe). I don't have time to install-configure-uninstall-install-configure-uninstall… To waste my time I already had Windows and all its freeware or shareware programs.
Contributing to Distro Hopping Anonymous:
My experience is long, since Debian Sarge (2005), the first distribution that completely replaced windows.
I have to say that Distro Hopping is a chronic disease, therefore there is no cure. Cyclically it will assail you, and friend, the control is not easy: I have come to install Gentoo with different make.conf several times in a week. To finally return to Debian stability.
I have controlled it for a long time, how ?: No rollingIt is the beginning of everything, first the versionitis the application that is not in the repositories (I am going to compile it), then you bite your finger: KDE-4 is already out.? When?! When?! When?! , and in the end, you fell !!!
The cure does not exist (in my case, of course), but the control does exist, how? Stable distributions that it forces you to configure to adapt it to your liking: Debian - Slackware.
PS: I no longer eat nails!
Well, I tried almost all of them, I stayed with Arch but I kept trying 3-4 distros per month. By chance I decided to try Kubuntu lts and it works the same as Arch, the only thing that the software is not as up to date as this one but otherwise it is perfect and I think that for 5 years I am going to stay put at once.
I'm getting used to staying in an XD distro
It seems that in many cases versionitis is cured with Archlinux. My case is the typical one of starting with Ubuntu then trying a little of everything, Fedora, Mandriva, Opensuse, Trisquel ... then Debian and finally Arch. Once the installation and configuration is mastered, it becomes the easiest to carry. It's like having them all in one since you can turn it into whatever you want. Sometimes I install ubuntu to a friend and it seems much more complicated than arch.
But once the versionitis of distros with Arch is over, they start another type of versionitis such as the desktop environment. With a command you can switch desktop without any problem (so far). And so we are attentive to the latest versions of kde, gnome, xfce ... or the outburst towards the minimalism of openbox or fluxbox but that cyclically after certain problems or discomforts make you return to the comfort and stability of kde.
Since I use chakra, I tried to use other distros but they last 3 days in the test partition, no distro pleases me as chakra.
I came to the Linux world via Red Hat and Suse. after a while without using Linux, I found Ubuntu 8.10. and I used it constant until version 10.10 (for me, the best version of Ubuntu to date). I decided to abandon this distro and started my journey: Debian, OpenSuse, Mandriva, Fedora, PCLOS (I stayed with this for a long time). Bored of the same, a year ago I was recommended Chakra, a distro that led me to "fall in love" with KDE (even if it is a kitsch), and I am very happy now, for its stability, its great community, speed and artwork.
xD I think I have taken shorter but more repetitive jumps xD
I began to be interested in free software when I found out that they were going to give me a notebook and in my search for programs that I would use, I began to read the GPL in one xD
-I received my notebook with win7, I used it for a few months and classic was already starting to fail xD
-I tried to move to ubuntu, but too many bugs from 11.04 were killing me xD
-I moved to Fedora, but it was like I was a Chinese in Russia, strange and incomprehensible errors, strange configuration forms, bugs in each update, impossible to memorize commands, fedora 15, my worst enemy xD
-I went back to win 7… it lasted 3 months, but I took advantage of them to learn everything about the GNU / Linux system
-I managed to get ubuntu working fine on 11.10
-bored with ubuntu I tried to use Linux Mint, I liked it, but I had a lot of problems with the language packs, and at that time I didn't understand much of English xD
-I tried to install Debian, but it was Impossible, absolutely ALWAYS something failed in the installation, no matter what I did, sometimes not many packages were installed, sometimes the graphical environment was not installed, something always failed
-I went back to Ubuntu still on 11.10
-In an act of courage I decided to risk installing Arch, I read for a week all the official and unofficial installation and configuration guides, I had 7 failed installations and when I finally managed to install the system correctly, I had left the Root partition very small, so I wanted to expand it with gparted, the worst mistake of my life xD
After a successful reinstallation (already being more canchero: P) I finally rested xD
I currently have my beautiful Arch-Linux on the notebook, and Ubuntu 12.04 with Win7 Ultimate dualboot, on the desktop pc
My journey ... is over
Hi, I started with Ubuntu back in 2008 I think, when I bought a notebook with WVista that crawled, and crawls because it is still there but only for specific cases and as a partition to save things. (I leave it because I don't feel like installing w7). When Unity appeared in Ubuntu I used it for a while, but then I got tired and the verionitis attacked me. Before I had tried many in Virtualbox and several light distro that I installed in an old computer (DML, Puppy, Xubuntu, Lubuntu). I recently put LMDE in my note, until a couple of weeks ago I got tired of its lack of updates and I went to the Kde side (I had tried it before and it did not close), so this last time I installed Opensuse, it I removed due to problems with the wifi (very slow), then Mageia (no sound), PclinuxOs (the same, no sound), SolusOs (the desktop did not convince me, now I wanted Kde!) so I finished with Kubuntu. Everything is perfect for me, so for now I'm still there.
Also lower Chakra so I have to try it.
With Arch I started once in virtual form, but I could not finish it, my knowledge is somewhat basic.
regards
Pd: To this, let's add that the same thing happens to me with my cell phone and Android!
Something similar happened to me, but this was with the arrival of Ubuntu with Unity, everything was fine with Ubuntu but I tried Unity in its different versions (with 11.04,11.10, 12.04 and 12.04) and I couldn't handle it, for example, with XNUMX Unity It is super heavy and I started to try several distros and in the end I have stayed with Kubuntu 🙂!
It is incredible how well KDE is doing on my computer, very fast, nothing forced, which with unity in 12.04 did not happen.
Greetings.
I think I keep jumping from distro to distro.
I started with Ubuntu 10.10, went to 11.04, then 11.10. From there I went to Xubuntu, and then to Debian Xfce. The list is long, among which I have liked a lot are Debian, Slitaz, Fedora and Arch. I am currently on Arch, to see how long it lasts.
I also did a dd clone of the Slitaz partition, and saved it to an iso. So I will have it if I need it.
true old history !, it happens to all of us, although it is also that one is curious, thanks for the article it is very good
I, too, suffered from a Distro Hopping era!
My first contact with Linux was years ago with RedHat, and from there I became very curious and got a whole arsenal of systems: openSuse, core linux, then mandriva, ubuntu, debian, arch, puppy linux, chakra, trisquel came ...
And it goes without saying that apart from distro hopping, another problem is desktop hopping, testing a thousand desktop environments and switching from one to another without stopping until you go crazy. Too much time is wasted on this and in the end what it brings us is very little, it makes us almost "unproductive." Investigating is fine, but you also need to go for something that you feel comfortable with.
Personally, I finally reached a covenant of self-obligation with myself. And I forced myself to keep arch as a distro for my laptop and my desktop and debian as a server for the little computer where I have my web page. Debian I use it without a graphical environment, and in Arch I use KDE on the desktop and gnome shell and awesome WM on the laptop, which is the computer I use the most for college.
Greetings!
Ummm, it hurts that I still have this problem, I have tried everything a bit .. From Ubuntu 8.04, to the current version, through LMint, LMDE, Fedora, Puppy, PCLOS, Lubuntu, Sabayon, Arch, Debian, Archbang and a without a number so immense that it would be a long enough list to detail here.
What I am looking for is an extremely stable distribution above all, with a large number of huge packages, updated and with an emphasis on the use of Programming since, I am starting my training as a developer and I am looking for this type of distribution, I felt comfortable with Sabayon since I had a few days in it but due to the little entry that Gentoo contains and the same scarce documentation of it, it made it difficult for me to achieve things in that distribution, now my eagerness I suppose that Archlinux fills it but with the work I makes the learning curve of it narrow.
I've been under Archbang for two days now and I'm tired of it! 🙁.
I think that with so many alternatives we will always have this syndrome hehe xD!
Regards!
For the record, I read all your comments, but I have never had to answer so many.
But that Gentoo not having good documentation is a myth. They have an amazing wiki out there.
Exactly, the Gentoo Wiki and the Arch Wiki are really great 😀
I've been with this condition for a long time too, but I think Open suse is taking care of helping me with rehabilitation
Congratulations anti !, I hope you recover soon ... Besides, I don't know if I suffered from distro hopping, I only had Ubuntu 11.10, Linux Mint 11, Zorin 6, CentOS 6, OpenSuSE 12.1, Tuquito 5 and Kubuntu 12.04 currently, although not more than 2 days I used, I don't seriously consider them ... The truth is that I feel the emptiness of wasting resources such as time, light and sleep 😀 ... Maybe I will experiment more to be able to use Arch Linux, which is the one that has me stung ...
Regards!
I've been going through that bad since I bought my laptop. It has an ATI card and it is almost a satanic rite that is needed to install it D :.
I want to use arch again, but it seems cumbersome and so I don't dare to install it. Suggestions: C?
I don't want bubulubuntu!
bubulubuntu xD
I also have distro hopping syndrome, and I cured it by installing gentoo on the old machine but it reappeared when I built a new one, again going through ubuntu, chakra, and others I stayed in mageia (I'm even part of the control team quality) but I still don't have that satisfaction after installing gentoo, that's why one day I'll go back to it (since the old computer ran out of disk or source haha) or who knows how to test arch ...
Regards!
I am very afraid that I suffer from this ... I am unable to endure more than a week without changing distro ... Of course, I have two partitions, and on one floor I have something more fixed. At the moment I have Ubuntu 12.10 and Mint Cinnamon, and now I'm thinking of trying Kubuntu and which of those two to delete.
Hopefully one day I find a distro to stay in, because this is stressful!
What an agent lie! I wear Mint proudly hahaha
Fixed up! 😛
Hello, I have read this interesting article, and well, as they say, each head is a world, for example, I did not start with Ubuntu, start with a live cd called knoppix, the king and the best live cd, then go directly to debian (which is actually what myself) and I have never really left debian, I have only used this system. and all quiet I consider that the best package gesture is apt and the distribution with more pre-packaged packages is debian. not for pleasure it is the main distribution of many others including ubuntu. Additional comment now debian is super friendly installing and leaving it functional on a laptop is not a complex task
"I think the best package gesture is apt"
How can you say this if you never used other distributions in depth to discover the advantages and weaknesses of their package managers?
apt -dpkg, actually- has some interesting features, like the autoconfiguration of packages and some incomprehensible and unusable tragedies like HOLD to remove packages surgically, it is also showing the years that it has already, no matter how many lifts it has suffered, nor what to speak of the .deb format, perfect to torment the devil!
pacman, emerge, yum, zipper and conary are some of the _excellent_ package managers of today, superior to dpkg in several respects ...
"And the distribution with the most prepackaged packages is debian"
It is relative. In general, the bulk of Debian packages are old applications - between 6 months and 2 years, which makes it perfect for servers but outdated for desktop.
Sid, on the other hand, without having modern packages, is highly unstable and you will surely spend a lot of time fixing what breaks in each update.
Nowadays the issue of the number of packages you can access is no longer so important, nobody really cares, distros like Arch, Gentoo, Fedora, Ubuntu or even openSUSE have repos of 25k packages or more, where you have everything for 99% of users.
Sid unstable? I think I do not share that point .. Well, at least from my experience, the few times I have been able to use Sid it has been like a gem ..
Thanks for your answer.
I haven't used Debian for about 2 years (yes Ubuntu, but not Debian) and at that time using Sid was reckless, the system made me water everywhere! xD
Regards!
Well I know people who use Sid every day and happy as worms xDDD
In particular, I tell you that I identify a lot with your post, I use Linux as the main OS from there in Ubuntu version 9.04 that finally supported the Atheros driver for the Wifi of my Laptop, in that sense, I had been testing the growth of Linux since Ubuntu version 6.06, when all this was still a classic and a novelty at the same time, on the other hand, I have always been interested in trying many distributions that come out, let's say that it became a vice, called Versionitis, and I do not say that one do not learn, because despite always going back to my origins installing Ubuntu, I went from installing PCBSD (which has nothing to do with Linux) to installing rarities for 2 days like Arch, I determined that the Germans in addition to making good cars make good Distros like OpenSuse, I tried Fedora very good but it is a RedHat proving ground which makes it a fair shotgun at times, and an endless number of other rare distributions, consequently sometimes one is affected by ex freedom tremors and all those kinds of herbs that promote the ethical values of Free Software and there begins the mess of knowing that distro meets your needs and has a good freedom policy. Nowadays let's say that I have matured and I conclude like you in the end, you have to use the distribution that has the packages you need to work in its repos, outside of that it seems silly to me in Linux to have to manually download and install programs from sources , with make install and stuff. That is why I stayed with Ubuntu or any of its direct derivatives Xubuntu, Lubuntu and Kubuntu, in their LTS versions respectively, to which I have an acceptable stability and avant-garde without falling into extremism or fanaticism, in addition to those I lend better support both to mount servers and to install the distribution to colleagues who want to start, in a few words I stopped reinventing the wheel. I invite you to read an entry that I write that speaks a little about what I expose http://luismauricioac.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/ubuntu-es-una-distribucion-que-no-tan-solo-un-novato-puede-amar/ Regards!
I have never felt so identified ... I have been a distro hoper since I met my first linux back in 1998 .... I always tried to keep Ubuntu when I understood that changing was not benefiting me at all, but since Ubuntu has suffered from some errors that are not easy to correct, such as the famous "startup in safe graphical mode" (Even if you don't believe me, look for I tried everything they recommended and tried for this error) and tired I returned to the hoping distro and fell into Elementary Os where I have stayed (strange that being based on the Ubuntu line it does not have that little problem?) The good thing about this is that We have learned a lot and when we find that distro that has that I don't know what, we stay with it (well until we feel like trying that new distro that has come out ... and that everyone praises ... lol)
I think the article was going very well, only with the final part it becomes contradictory and incoherent. If you are far from finding it but you are not in a hurry and you no longer want to search, how can you find it if you are not looking at the large number of "fish" in that "sea". Nothing worthwhile comes free or effortless in life. Just as marine biologists do not have a lifetime to have all the information on marine life, however much they investigate, it will not reach "marine cyberbiologists" either. Hopefully they will be satisfied with what they can learn from this "marine life" with the time they have available. For my part I am not looking for a perfect operating system, because it does not exist, but I am interested in knowing what advantages the operating systems that are coming out offer ... be it WINDOWS, MAC, LINUX, ANDROID or whatever joins the list. And that is only done by searching and experimenting.