Part of me is like "just run a VM" other part of me is like "hardware comparability is a major part of choosing an OS".

Also, just friggin at least run a fedora VM and shove every DE in it until you figure out what you like. Maybe you actually just want to try a different DE.

I use Debian since the early 2000s. Never had a reason to even think about changing the distro.

I’m a break hopper. If I like a distro. I’ll use it. Months and sometimes years. Then, if there’s some kind of breakage and I can’t figure it out and I decide to do a fresh install, I’m like “why not try something new”

I've been distro shopping since the late 90s. Think I've finally settled: Bazzite (+distrobox) and CachyOS.
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Love this song, "Play me online. Well, you know that I'll beat you. If I ever meet you I'll control-alt-delete you" is gold.

I feel the line "While your computer's crashing, mine's multitasking. It does all my work without me even asking'" is very relevant today.

Years ago I saw a picture of yuri that said "Debian is the distro for lesbians" and that sold me on it.

Nixos is where it's at

Or is where it at is?

"I got me a hundred gigabytes of RAM"

Even almost 30 years later it's still a flex 😭

I jumped from Windows 10 straight to CachyOS (which you should've mentioned is Arch btw). Haven't looked back since.

I've been meaning to switch and was gonna do it when I get a new computer (any decade now..). Funnily enough it was my frustrations with getting Docker running that led me to pull the trigger.

ugh that's totally me. I've literally tried everything, even all the BSDs, and there are many that I like.

I don't know I just find it fun to install a linux distro or BSD and set it up, see what will work, what doesn't, etc.

The beauty of it is now I can install anything with ease and i'm familiar with pretty much every package manager out there. Favourite install: Gentoo. Least favourite: Slackware.

what I changed more were DEs and WMs. I could never find the right one that I absolutely loved for years. Finally I just ended up building my own and put in all the stuff I wanted.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Fow7iUaKrq4