Or do you ever really pick one?
I love the fact that I'm so free to try different distros and desktop environments with linux now that I have fully supported hardware.
So far I've tried...
Ubuntu
Xubuntu
PCLinuxOS (used to love this one in the day)
Mint - MATE
Mint - Cinnamon
Mint - XFCE
LMDE - XFCE
Mageia
Puppy
Debian - I'm not quite ready for this
Arch - See above
I really wanted to love Linux Mint Debian Edition, but the stability just wasn't there. Or I should rephrase... I don't have quite the skills to tweak it to where it needs to be yet. So far, I've found Ubuntu and Mint (MATE) to be the most stable. I really like where cinnamon is going, but I found a few annoying issues with it.
I think I really prefer apt as a package management system, so I think I've decided to stay with distros that support that. Ubuntu derivatives seem to be solid and easy to set up.
So right now, I'm running Mint (MATE) and plan on adding more DE to it to play around.
So my question...
How often do you distro hop?
How long did it take you decide on a base distribution and DE?
What about a DE? Do most of you stick to one? Or are you constantly exploring new ones?
Ultimately... what is your prefered distribution and DE that you find yourself going back to?
I love the fact that I'm so free to try different distros and desktop environments with linux now that I have fully supported hardware.
So far I've tried...
Ubuntu
Xubuntu
PCLinuxOS (used to love this one in the day)
Mint - MATE
Mint - Cinnamon
Mint - XFCE
LMDE - XFCE
Mageia
Puppy
Debian - I'm not quite ready for this
Arch - See above
I really wanted to love Linux Mint Debian Edition, but the stability just wasn't there. Or I should rephrase... I don't have quite the skills to tweak it to where it needs to be yet. So far, I've found Ubuntu and Mint (MATE) to be the most stable. I really like where cinnamon is going, but I found a few annoying issues with it.
I think I really prefer apt as a package management system, so I think I've decided to stay with distros that support that. Ubuntu derivatives seem to be solid and easy to set up.
So right now, I'm running Mint (MATE) and plan on adding more DE to it to play around.
So my question...
How often do you distro hop?
How long did it take you decide on a base distribution and DE?
What about a DE? Do most of you stick to one? Or are you constantly exploring new ones?
Ultimately... what is your prefered distribution and DE that you find yourself going back to?
