Hi, I just want to share / get some opinion.

I started using Linux 2 years back. I was dual booting back then and after a year switched to Linux completely.

I started out using Ubuntu, hated it, installed Manjaro after a week and when pacmac broke the thing within 2 months, I watched a bunch of YouTube videos, read the arch wiki and installed arch. Things were going great except for some Nvidia issues (I am using an Optimus laptop) but utt was running smoothly. Then decided that I want to build a game engine and the nvidia issues were significant. So I read somewhere that Fedora has great nvidia support and I installed it and everything worked. I installed Fedora 39, and it worked. When Fedora 40 came, I upgraded no issues, Fedora 41 came, no issues.

But just a few days back when I had vacation, I decided my system was getting bloated and I didn’t manually want to uninstall apps, I decided let’s format it. But I thought… Arch might take up less space on my disk(1 have a 512gb nvme, and t 2tb hdd, but I like to put things like games and projects I am working on, on the nvme). So I installed arch and loving the experience. I installed Nvidia-open drm drivers and it just works.

TLDR: Is it normal to distro hop after being using a distro perfectly for so long?

PS: I used archinstall because I didn’t want through the lengthy process again. And archinstall works great.

    • IsoSpandy@lemm.eeOP
      3·
      21 hours ago

      I had tried opensuse tumbleweed and absolutely loved the way it did things, my perfect balance between fedora and arch, but there were Teo problems that I couldn’t get over.

      1. Zypper is slow.
      2. I couldn’t get it to do parallel downloads packages.

      But it’s a great distro nonetheless.

      Also it has a similar problem with fedora that arch doesn’t. VIDEO CODECS. I don’t understand how the USA messes with my ability to play a video and I am seriously annoyed by it.

    • kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      2 days ago

      I mean I love OpenSUSE TW. Been using it for well over 2 years. One of the best distros I used. But I am slowly looking to try something new. Its all fun and games 😄

      • superkret@feddit.org
        6·
        2 days ago

        The distro that cured my distro-hopping was Slackware.
        It taught me that you can do anything Linux can do in any distro, no matter how obscure, ancient or simplistic.

        It also taught me that there is no reward waiting for you on the other side for making your own life difficult.

        Went back to Debian knowing I could do it all myself manually, but I don’t have to.

        • kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          2·
          2 days ago

          For me it is just trying different flavors. They are all unique in their own right. I have not used Slackware yet. Might give it a go though.