I did for a couple years. It was progressive and exciting at the time, but was kinda left behind by everything else as other distros started up. Mandrake grabbed me for a couple years, Suse at one point. I did do a Gentoo phase since at one point I would build and sell old machines as software routers with ipchains and Gentoo was a little more structured than just compiling my own kernels to keep it lightweight and fast.
Never used it as a desktop, but Debian has been with me since probably 2003ish, mainly as my email server but it’s the base of every service I run myself. Never saw a point to using anything else, including RHEL. Any time I’ve tried something else, I’ve regretted it and gone back very quickly.
Ahhh, I knew it. A Man of Culture! Or something else, I’m not sure what though. I have threatened to get an old laptop and install slack on it for fun, but I seem to be too lazy to get it done…
You mirror my travels through the Linux distros. Red Hat and Mandrake, Slack, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Suse, even Mint and now Fedora yet again. I’ve never bothered with setting up a server though, I just don’t have the need or desire.
we need that bell curve meme with mint at both ends
I started my bellcurve with Redhat in the 90s, Arch in the teens and I’m back at Redhat (Fedora).
You started in the 90’s and you didn’t don the sackcloth and ashes of Slack? At least for a little bit? Ah, the joys of writing config files!
I did for a couple years. It was progressive and exciting at the time, but was kinda left behind by everything else as other distros started up. Mandrake grabbed me for a couple years, Suse at one point. I did do a Gentoo phase since at one point I would build and sell old machines as software routers with ipchains and Gentoo was a little more structured than just compiling my own kernels to keep it lightweight and fast.
Never used it as a desktop, but Debian has been with me since probably 2003ish, mainly as my email server but it’s the base of every service I run myself. Never saw a point to using anything else, including RHEL. Any time I’ve tried something else, I’ve regretted it and gone back very quickly.
Ahhh, I knew it. A Man of Culture! Or something else, I’m not sure what though. I have threatened to get an old laptop and install slack on it for fun, but I seem to be too lazy to get it done…
You mirror my travels through the Linux distros. Red Hat and Mandrake, Slack, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Suse, even Mint and now Fedora yet again. I’ve never bothered with setting up a server though, I just don’t have the need or desire.
Arch in the middle.
Nope. Gentoo in the middle
as an ~amd64 user this is accurate.
As if anyone likes to go to an ancient kernel on free will after living on snapshots of mainline for some time…
You mean Ubuntu at both ends?
nope
Oh, I see. You’ll get there.
like I’ll end up on Ubuntu? that’s my end-game distro? what makes you think that?
Using Ubuntu once put me off switching for years. I used arch and instantly got why people like linux.
I’m rooting for you to get ahead in the bell curve.