Hello,

I try out new distro every week since I have a lot of free time and want to learn more about Linux. I was thinking that it would be interesting to make a Lemmy post every week talking about my experience with the distro and what I did with it. right now I have alpine linux installed and thinking about using it till next sunday.

feel free to suggest next distro that I should try out. (I have tried out a lot of distros but never wrote anything about the experience but now on I will be making post about it here on Lemmy :) )

  • whoareu@lemmy.caOPEnglish
    11·
    2 days ago

    how much time should I spend with a distro to actually get the gist of the distro? a month maybe?

    • LibbEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      how much time should I spend with a distro to actually get the gist of the distro? a month maybe?

      Why change would I change distro to begin with? I mean, you do as you like, quite obviously, but I never considered my objective to switch distro and test them all. I would see that as a waste of my time, as I’d rather be doing stuff with that computer.

      The distro I switched to (approx 3 years ago) I only switched because I could not solve an issue I had using the previous distro. A silly issue that simply was non-existent with that new one ;)

    • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Enough to find and overcome issues with how you use it.

      If you quit a distro before you run into an issue then that’s not very helpful when it comes time to make a choice

      If you aren’t able to overcome and fix an issue that you run into while using the computer the way you would normally, then your probably not learning much about Linux.

      My recommendation is to go for at least a minor kernel upgrade.

      If all you want to do is test out distros before you commit to an install, then check out https://distrosea.com/

        • Shareni@programming.devEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          I meant it in a philosophical sense.

          Let’s say the gist of Debian is stability. How can you understand it? If you install now and use it for a week, you’ll just see packages that are 2 years out of date, and call it crap without going into the reasoning behind it, or finding your solutions to outdated packages. If you install it after a new release and use it for a week, you’ll think it’s fedora with apt, and call it a day.

          • whoareu@lemmy.caOPEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            You are correct, maybe 1 week is not that much time, I should try to use it for at least a month.