• Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    Distrohopping is just OS tourism.

    You gotta live the ecosystem. Vote in their elections. Contribute to their package managers. Then you can hop if its not for you.

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    suggestions for better rhythm:

    I distro-hopped every Linux system,
    gave some props, the rest I dissed 'em.
    You had your OS more than a week?
    Pave that shit, man, it’s antique!

  • queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    5 hours ago

    Hit install and never stop
    I’ll tell you how I distrohop
    There’s no flavor I’d say no to
    ‘cept that faschy one (you know who)
    got a hundred boxes runnin’
    and a vendor ain’t locked one in
    Drop a new one and I’m on it
    jumping ships like the bubonic
    keeping ancient silicon churning
    endless new OS smell burning
    I’ll be jumping 'til I drop
    to the beat of the endless distrohop

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    8 hours ago

    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.

  • bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip
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    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”

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      4 hours ago

      I’m at that point with Solus right now. They messed up so many things when they switched to Wayland. Definitely wasn’t ready for release. Trying to figure out what to try next.

    • NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com
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      7 hours ago

      Makes it easy as a gamer. My only worry is all the wear from installing my games each time with the high cost of storage nowadays.

      But it’s always nice to start from scratch with a new distro and not bringing any baggage with you.

    • threeonefour@piefed.ca
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      8 hours ago

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

  • dudleyflippendoodle@lemmy.zip
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    7 hours ago

    Hey fella, I bet you’re still living in your parents cellar, downloading picture of Sarah Michelle Gellar

    And posting “me too” like some braindead AOL-er I should do the world and cap you like Old Yeller

    You’re just about as useless to JPEGs as Helen Keller

    Weird Al did not need to make these lyrics slap so hard but I’m so glad he did.

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    Theres nothing like spending a couple of hours setting up ur new distro of choice only to go “naah im kinda bored i wonder if theres something better” 😂 Its never ending cycle 😫

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      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.

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    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.

  • Caption_Mo@reddthat.com
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    I hopped mainly among a few. Then it was Debian for a long time. Then hopped again for no particular reason. My Mint kernel panicked once a few weeks ago, so I might hop again.