>be me
>not transgender
>parents aren't divorced
>not on any sort of medication
>interested in installing linux
>research the pros and cons of various distros
>try a few distros on live disks and settle on one
>install
>happy with it
>no desire to distrohop
I don't understand. Imagine if Windows users were constantly reinstalling Windows with new custom images they found on messageboards. What's even the point of changing your distro when you can achieve the desired effect by asking ChatGPT for something to paste into terminal?

>>105609240 (OP)
>not transgender
>posts tranime
[x]

>>105609246
>clearly western art
>anime
Retard.

>>105609240 (OP)
Ironically, the biggest obstacle to YOTLD is Linux users. In 2025 Linux just works, yet Linux faggots behave like it doesn't.

it's trannies, you said it yourself. they dont want to use it, they want to post in the heckin desktop thread.

Because they’re not looking at it for practical use or functionality, the enjoyment is the experience of variety and the process of using different distros.
I did this for a while bouncing between a bunch of stuff from opensuse to freebsd, every flavor of normie Linux on rhel, Debian or arch, even some weird stuff like a Debian fork based around gnustep/windowmaker and haiku.
But I just kinda bored myself out of that hobby and interest and moved on to doing something else with my free time. My few Linux machines now just run whatever ubuntu version, I never update.

Same reason some people just constantly change shit on their pcs or spend a few hundred dollars on custom cables and shit. It’s not for functionality, it’s for enjoyment.

>>105609240 (OP)
>try a few distros on live disks and settle on one
>no desire to distrohop
What? Trying out different distros literally is distrohopping you stupid faggot

>>105609443
Using a Live Disk without installing the OS isn't distrohopping.

>>105609240 (OP)
>>try a few distros on live disks and settle on one
I didn't even go this far. I first installed ubuntu around 07 because it was clearly babby's first linux which is what I needed. Later on I used mint because I didn't like the ubuntu bloat. When I was installing headless servers I'd use debian (though these days I've started using ubuntu server for work machines which I want up-to-date software packages on).

>>105609240 (OP)
The worst part is the big lie of distros somehow being very different from one another when they're all really the same shit just with different bells and whistles attached. Linux would be so much more popular if people could just stick with one fucking thing, but nooo. You have to scare developers into seeing a million different distros to develop for which is why nobody wants to make fucking anything for Linux.

>I want a rolling distro that is stable
>>ok, you should try opensuse slowroll
>ok
and I never tried anything else. Just werks.

>>105609456
It is faggot

>>105609698
????????
How do you distrohop when you haven't even installed Linux yet?

>>105609240 (OP)
anything besides debian is broken slop that makes windows updates look stable
most linuxfags think they are "above it" so they keep jumping from slop distro to slop distro that forces updates every day and wonder why they all break and become unusable at some point

>>105609766
How's Debian for games vs bleeding edge distros?

>>105609240 (OP)
Because they don't understand what differentiates one distro from the other. I suppose at least some of them are very susceptible to shilling, so they quickly jump to something after reading someone's happy review. This is why I always tell people to use Kubuntu or Mint for however long it takes for them to understand exactly why they might some other distro; it's quitel likely they won't ever get it.

>>105609900
>Kubuntu
Eh. Enjoy your snaps.

>>105609913
Most simply won't care. And if they do, they're now a step closer to enlightenment.

>>105609934
They'll care when their browser takes too long to open

>>105609955
You give normalfags too much credit.

>>105609246
>>105609254

> tranime mentioned

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>>105609240 (OP)
Distrohopping is gay, filesystem hopping is great until you reasonably settle on zfs or btrfs as well inevitably will

>>105609240 (OP)
Distrohopping is a retarded meme. Only times I've changed was when building a new computer or something, or if the one I was using had show stopping problems (like said distro ceases to exist and loses all support lol).
They're all basically the same and all can do the same shit.
Been using arch now for like 15 years or something. Had an arch derivative on an old laptop but it stopped existing so whatever. Just works, does the needful, etc.

>>105609240 (OP)
I've stopped distrohopping a year ago when I tried Artix. and even then I didn't distrohop much, just trying different flavors of Arch (went from Endeavour to Arch to Artix and stopped there)
>t. heterosexual White man

>>105609240 (OP)
>i don't understand
yes, being stupid would do that to you.

>>105609240 (OP)

>>105609955
Perhaps you wouldn't remember this but the average browser in the xp era had 5 toolbars

Gentoo, Arch, Nix, Fedora KDE

Literally the only distros worth hopping to/from.

>>105614107
Nobody wants to go back to the XP era

>>105614240
I'm just saying that norms are pliable and breedable and they will bend over to read the tiny bit of screen that still displays the actual webpage

>>105614279
you're pliable and breedable

>>105609913
snaps are pretty good imo aside from the networking thing they do

1. never update
2. new computer new distro

>>105609240 (OP)
I used to distrohop in the past, was mostly due to following idiotic memes
I remember when this board used to shill NixOS for absolutely no reason, it just stuck in some schizophrenic heads then they started preaching it as the new world wonder
Before it we had gentoo shilling, before gentoo it was arch, and so on

>>105609240 (OP)
>>parents aren't divorced
What does that have to do with anything?

>>105609240 (OP)
>be me
>not transgender
>parents aren't divorced
>not on any sort of medication
>interested in installing linux
>there's not much info on any of the distros
>try a few distros on live disks and settle on one
>install
>happy with it
>bugs out
>reinstall
>happy with it
>bugs out
>try another distro
>happy with it
>bugs out
>try another distro
>happy with it
>bugs out
>try another distro
>bugs out
>read that debian has the most stable distribution
>go back to debian
>settle
>bugs out
>reinstall
>bugs out
>reinstall
>no desire to distrohop
this was my experience since i discovered linux back in 06'

>>105609254
that cunny is peak western art

>>105609766
yeah, after distro hopping for years (almost 2 decades) i ended up settling on debian lts.

>>105614531
he's alluding to attachment issues
have you never learned to read between the lines?

>>105609240 (OP)
I am all 3 of those things and don't distrohop, gentoo is home for life

>>105609602
True, you either have rolling release (enjoy being a betatester fag) or stable distros. Other than that it's literally just the package manager and maybe the install experience that's different.

>>105609395
Linux only "just works" if you don't do anything more complicated than e-mail.

>>105615241
>Linux only "just works" if you don't do anything more complicated than e-mail.
You gotta modernize this bait. Was reasonable in 2012, ins't anymore.

>>105609240 (OP)
>>105614642

>>be me
>>parents are divorced
>>love 2D futanari and 2D newhalf
>>hate 3D trannies
>>not on any sort of medication
>>interested in installing linux
>install slackware
>learn slackbuilds and source building
>a lot of manual work
>>research the pros and cons of various distros
>discover Gentoo
>install
>happy with it

>>105615524
>love 2D futanari and 2D newhalf
>hate 3D trannies
are you me?

>>105615427
Linux only "just works" if you don't do anything more complicated than e-mail and Steam games.

>>105615853
>are you me?
Honestly, its probably a natural reaction to seeing schizos that think they can even imitate art.

>>105615872
it doesn't help that 2d newhalf/shemale/futa/whatever you wanna call them are usually cute, while the 3d ones make me want to puke

>>105609240 (OP)
>Imagine if Windows users were constantly reinstalling Windows with new custom images they found on messageboards.
So the windows XP era.

>>105609240 (OP)
Why does /g/ have so many threads that start with "why" that are obviously attention whoring attempts?

>>105614642
>cunny
Ashley Graves is an adult woman

>>105616337
Your post starts with "why" lol

>>105614642
>there's not much info on any of the distros
Did you consult the lady working at McDonald's instead of a fucking search engine? There's an unlimited information about Linux distributions and which ones are the best for your use cases.

>Cut your dick and balls off? Fine
>Have sex with your adult sister? NOOOOOOOO YOU CANT DO THAT

What is wrong with trannies?

>>105616393
sad

This objectively shitty thread is NOT about technology!

>>105616558
If some deranged freak castrates himself, that's his problem. If he makes deformed hellspawn babies with his sister, that's everyone's problem.

Just wait until it implodes or it doesn't support x thing you want to do.
That's when you should just install windows again.

>>105616663
my sister is on the pill so we don't have that problem

>tfw no imouto to nakaԁashi

>>105617255
you're missing out

>>105609240 (OP)
because many distros are shit leave a lot to be desired

>>105609839
there is literally no difference since steam provides its own libraries instead of the distro ones

>>105617255
Nakaԁashi yourself, buster! :3

>>105616663
>Abortions exist
>There are people with a 100% chance of producing deformed offspring who are legally allowed to do simply because their mate is unrelated
>Incest babies are healthy in 99% of cases anyway

>>105617368
I mainly play emulators. Controller drivers are also important for me

people who distrohop are *into* linux like as a hobby, you just want an operating system. both are ok

>>105609240 (OP)
It's easier to install a different distro to see what a differently-optimized/configured Linux DE can look and function like than it is to go through every option and install/configure everything yourself. It's test driving different cars before you settle into one, and/or decide you want to DIY build something like X distro but with different utilities or DE or whatever.

Ultimately you're deciding what the starting point should be and what level of customization you want to do. Sure, you could build a car from scratch by smelting your own metal and mining your own copper and aluminum and tanning your own leather and so on but who the fuck has time to do all that shit? You find a distro that's "close enough" and spend at most a few hours configuring/reconfiguring that set of defaults and installing particular tools for your use case and then it gets out of your way to do more creative work.

Sometimes it might even take a couple of weeks or months to decide that you like how X distro handles Y better than Z distro does and you try something else.

Given enough experience with linux, you eventually come to the conclusion that it's about choosing a package manager, DE, and how stable you want your packages to be.

>>105617418
>Incest babies are healthy in 99% of cases anyway
Spotted the jew.

>>105617425
yeah thats fine, "stable" distros arent that old anyways. rolling release distros are just a headache and a waste of bandwidth

>>105609240 (OP)
Its fun having a fresh install every other month to clutter up and break.

>>105617418
But
But anon think of the ick and God's watching and power dynamics (?) and what if there's a breakup

Anyways, I used to distrohop because different distros have given me different results. If the process to get everything working was the only issue I didn't distrohop, but if I saw issues along the way or had to replace my hardware, which also caused a few of those, eventually I resigned.
For instance I used Mint for quite a while, but now I have a cool monitor that can do proper HDR and this and the other, so X11 is a no go and Cinnamon doesn't support that on Wayland. Instead of bothering with installing Plasma on a distro that clearly isn't the best for this purpose, I distrohopped because it was now necessary for me to have as painless an experience as possible. For me the priority is to get as much of my hardware working as good as possible, not having a fully stable distro. Having /home on a separate partition, the process of distrohopping isn't as daunting.

>>105617747
>implying they're not the ones banning it

>>105609240 (OP)
i do it because I haven't found the goldilocks zone distro yet. Fedora KDE and Linux Mint Cinnamon came close but not really there.

I literally never distrohopped except for my first month of Linux in the early 2010s, when I was a teen, where I went from Ubuntu to Antergos to Arch. I do consider Debian testing at times but I eventually conclude that there's no concrete reason for me to install it.
I did experiment a lot with DEs/WMs though, but I've been on i3 for years.

I don't understand it either. I've got a laptop with Arch and a desktop with Debian.
I'm happy with both, they just werk and are good for everything I need them for. I've never had any issue that required more than 2 minutes of my time.
I don't see why I'd distrohop. Or return to Windows.
The only thing I can see myself doing is trying a WM on my arch laptop, but that's out of sheer curiosity as I'm a noob.

>>105609240 (OP)
idk I just use Windows and want to fuck my older brother

>>105617255
hi

>>105617418
How are you doing Karl?

>>105609240 (OP)
I went from ubuntu > mint> KDE neon >Tumbleweed
Ubuntu was recommended to me and I used mint in college on a old laptop and once I got more money I moved to more demanding DE followed by settling for tumbleweed for it's ease for setting up rollback and good rolling release

>>105616656
>>105616558
>>105616393
>>105612491
>>105609240 (OP)
she would have been normal if she got slapped around by big bro during childhood, nobody did anything

will mods ever crack down on these sorts of threads or not? it's like they want the site to be dogshit

>>105620562
lol fag

>>105609395
Linux users are perpetual beta testers, even more now with the wayland shit.
The moment Linux enters state where most things work, fags try to push for something new that "fixes" all problems. It's like they are gonna die if there is nothing to tinker with and try to fix.

>>105609240 (OP)
>>not transgender
>>parents aren't divorced
>>not on any sort of medication

>>interested in installing linux
False

>>105609240 (OP)
They don't use their computer for hobbies, their computer IS the hobby.

>>105609395
>Install Mint, recommended to literally everyone as good first distro
>Open browser
>Go to YouTube
>Play video
>Half of the frames dropped, 100% CPU (Intel made in 2023) utilization
It. Just. Works.

>>105621197
This site is dogshit.

>>105621248
Linux is just too complicated for me :(