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   glyn (underlap@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 20:40:52 JST glyn

   My distro-hopping path over the last couple of years:

   * Ubuntu
   * Fedora
   * Debian
   * Arch

   What was yours? Boosts appreciated.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 20:42:53 JST clacke

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     1994: Watchtower
     1996: Slackware
     1998: Debian
     2000: Gentoo
     at some point back to Debian
     2006: Ubuntu
     Any time now: NixOS or Guix System
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 20:44:20 JST clacke

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     never ran Arch, actually
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     Dominic Martinez (dominicm@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 21:18:02 JST Dominic Martinez

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     @underlap Mine went:
     * Manjaro
     * Fedora
     * NixOS
     * GuixSD

     Don't see myself leaving Guix for the foreseeable future ?

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 21:29:45 JST clacke

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     I forgot, Mint was my main driver at some year or two soon after 2011 when Gnome 3 came out. Ubuntu after that meant first Ubuntu Gnome, later Ubuntu Mate, later mainline Ubuntu again.
     
     On the side I've also run: NixOS, Guix System, Mint, LMDE, Porteus
     
     Outside GNU/Linux I've also run NetBSD, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and DragonflyBSD.
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 21:31:07 JST clacke

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     Oh, and KDE Neon on the Pinebook.
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 21:34:27 JST clacke

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     Somewhere in the 2010s, probably between Mint and Ubuntu Mate I've also had Xubuntu as my main.
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     Mad Sci ∴ (madsci@focal.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Feb-2023 21:34:54 JST Mad Sci ∴

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     @underlap
     * Mandrake
     * Ubuntu
     * Arch
     * FreeBSD
     * Centos
     * Debian
     * Rocky

     Currently: Freebsd, Debian, Rocky

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 04-Mar-2023 15:17:25 JST clacke

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     • Anders Borch
     @anders @underlap There was a time I was using macports + fink + pkgsrc + homebrew. Confusing times.
     
     Nix + homebrew is great.
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     Anders Borch (anders@mastodon.cyborch.com)'s status on Saturday, 04-Mar-2023 15:17:27 JST Anders Borch

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     @underlap I was using MacPorts for a long time, but the last couple of years I've stuck to Homebrew ?

     (I know, this wasn't what you were asking for, but macOS is the best unix-variant for me, by far).

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     Der Michi (der_michi@troet.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 04-Mar-2023 15:18:35 JST Der Michi

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     @underlap
     Only S.u.S.E. and openSUSE for nearly 30 years. Seems like I am a bit of an outsider.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 04-Mar-2023 15:19:12 JST clacke

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     • Der Michi
     @Der_Michi @underlap Are you perhaps German?
     
     > Der Michi
     
     Yes. =)
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     Eva // Madeline // Winterschon (winterschon@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 04-Mar-2023 15:20:18 JST Eva // Madeline // Winterschon

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     @underlap

     1990s: Solaris
     1999: RedHat
     1999: FreeBSD
     2003: RHEL
     2003: Fedora
     2004: CentOS
     2005: OpenBSD
     2012: OpenWRT
     201X: Debian (precise date n/a)

     Still using most of those in varying system roles, with the exception of Solaris supplanted by FreeBSD (soon to be NetBSD due to Sparc support).

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     glyn (underlap@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 04-Mar-2023 15:20:58 JST glyn

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     • davidak

     @davidak Eek! No, but I might if a person explained why it was better than arch. I guess I can now search for those opinions.

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     Jake Hamilton (jakehamilton@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 04-Mar-2023 15:20:58 JST Jake Hamilton

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     • davidak

     @underlap @davidak I moved away from my long-time Arch system to NixOS. Almost immediately I moved every machine I own (and vps I rent) to NixOS.

     Imagine Arch with all the latest packages, a rich community, and none of the manual steps involved in setting up the system or installing and configuring services. Your whole system configurations goes in a "configuration.nix" file that lets you build and reproduce your exact system.

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     davidak@chaos.social's status on Saturday, 04-Mar-2023 15:21:00 JST davidak

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     @underlap the open source GPT-NeoX-20B deep learning language model says the next obvious distro is #NixOS (in one specific run that i intentionally selected)

     have you considered to try it out?

     https://nixos.org