I switched to Mint after being on Ubuntu for several years. I loaded Mint onto an old laptop to use for debugging embedded devices at work. That gave me the chance to experience the ease-of-use Mint has over regular Ubuntu. That motivated me to put Mint on my home desktop as well.
Used Windows 10 until I couldn't anymore. Jumped to Fedora and became very happy, but then reports came in of Fedora and AI, so then I switched to LMDE. Still happy. Playing Diablo 2 and Winamp through Crossover.
I've been using dual boot of #ubuntu and #gentoolinux for a year in my #slimbook . (Sharing firefox and thunderbird profiles, nextcloud and zotero between installations) I hadn't used gentoo since I was twenty and I was afraid And now I have just removed ubuntu! Full time gentoo now
I'm not really a distro hopper (yet) due to the fact that I am relatively new to #Linux. I installed #LinuxMint on an old Mac Mini I had laying around, and am quite happy with it, especially after switching to #XFCE from #cinnamon. Have hardly touched my MacBook in weeks.
And, to my surprise, Qubes: if you ever tried that in the past years, like I did, do yourself a favor and try 4.3. They did a great job with the tooling and it is now a lot more mature.
After a bunch of distro hopping, I settled on Mint with Cinnamon desktop. I previously was using Linux Lite in 2024, but ran into a problem where it could no longer use my PC's headphone/speaker jack (apparently a common problem). The desktop environment and package manager turned out to be the deciding factor on which distro I settled on.
Been using Linux Mint more or more for desktop, Debian for servers. Still got one Ubuntu laptop around, but since I don't want to upgrade it, I'll try to replace it with Mint eventually.
KDE Kubuntu is my daily stuff b4 even AI and GTA6 existed. It basically my whole sentient/aware of stuff childhood and becoming a legally adult soon with it (using it over 6 years)
new to Linux. Moved from W10 to Ubuntu mid-Oct 2025. But, a week later settled on Linux Mint. Installed it on an old 2015 Dell i5 laptop. Then, replaced W11 on a new Dell i7 early Dec 2025
2025 was the year I switched distributions several times a month, which allowed me to realize that there's always something better than our current distribution, so we just need to stick with one that works. That's why, in 2026, I'm staying with Fedora.
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •I switched from Kubuntu to NixOS. I needed something different and to be able to admin for my family on an ongoing basis.
With a code repo to store and manage config and a homegrown deployment script it's really been a great step up.
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •I switched from macOS to #Kubuntu LTS on my intel iMac.
Not going back. 🙂
I am so mad at Apple right now.
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Ubuntu 24.04 - Server
Baharul Islam
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •I hadn't used gentoo since I was twenty and I was afraid
And now I have just removed ubuntu! Full time gentoo now
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And, to my surprise, Qubes: if you ever tried that in the past years, like I did, do yourself a favor and try 4.3. They did a great job with the tooling and it is now a lot more mature.
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •Not having to deal with the terminal while at school is quite nice (I'm the only one at my school that uses Linux lol)
JR
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •Migrating from #Debian to #Gentoo.
#Linux #LinuxWomen
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •Still got one Ubuntu laptop around, but since I don't want to upgrade it, I'll try to replace it with Mint eventually.
Super Man
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