@paul there was lot of FUD around the switch at the time. And loud people trying to earn money by clickbaiting around it. So it confused a lot. But certainly, there was a sudden discontinuation point there, which scared people off. CentOS got swapped from downstream of RHEL to upstream, making it a proper open source project. Earlier the development path was Fedora -> RHEL -> CentOS, now F -> C -> R
@paul I totally get it. I don't hop either, and I hate reinstall.
@itsfoss j'ai essayé la distribution qui implémente un conteneur applicatifs pour que les mises à jours se fasse sans transition au moment des reboot : Fedora Silverblue
Avec qql effort j'ai réussi à installer opensnitch dessus pour voir ce qu'il se passait : c'était pas jolie à voir, en effet plusieurs appels vers des services de gafam.
Je n'ai pas trouvé ça 'très linux', et je suis retourné vers debian.
@itsfoss I started using Arch as my daily driver for several months now. No major issues/headaches and overall enjoy it! I do want to try Fedora again, though.
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My main distribution is Fedora works very well. I use it productively.
I currently have Mint installed on another notebook. I'm not really a Cinemon fan, but it's probably the best switch for people switching to Windows. That's also the reason why I installed it. Some Windows 10 devices in the family will then be switched to Mint. I don't think they will notice any difference as their IT affinity is rather low. 
@itsfoss I tried this year not to do distro hopping so I sticked with Fedora Silverblue but I looking forward to Vanilla OS
@itsfoss I recently tried Gentoo and compiled the kernel and all programs with optimizations like SIMD instruction sets. It's probably the fastest Linux distro I've experienced so far.
@itsfoss
I just switched to Linux this year ( 5 months ago )
I started with Linux Mint, then after one month i switched to PopOS
#debian : old software. Everytime I got a problem with it, the internet said: this got fixed 2 years ago, wait a bit longer and you get the update.
#arch : Awesome, but pacman is on another level. I barely can remember the flags I need.
#GarudaLinux Drag0nized : looks really good, but it's just not for me. Would recommend trying it for people, who put more RGB in their case than my GPU got CUDA Cores. But still, it looks very clean.
Don't get me wrong, I settled with #debian on my old laptop. I had the biggest issues after installing it, since my laptop got a weird proprietary network chip installed. This issue already got fixed, but not on debian. Got it running and haven't had issues since, and manually installing up to date packages (if I need them) is now easier with internet access 
@itsfoss@mastodon.social this year I tried Fedora Kionite. Its great for family members who like breaking their computers, but as someone who tinkers way too much it is not a daily drivable for me.
@itsfoss I’m on linux mint xfce and I can’t believe my old asus k53 is still working! Haven’t used it in years since win7 is not supported…
I added an ssd to help it out. Also I had to change the power supply and the battery.
My newer laptop with win11 is on rest since then.
#linux #linuxmint
@melsgear Reviving old laptops is the way! 
@sep Great! 
@itsfoss DSL for a very old SFF machine. It cannot boot from USB and needs a distro that is no more 700 megs. Went well booting from CD and ran everything I needed including an old parallel port ZIP drive.
@itsfoss Zorin: got tired of the gnome desktop
Kubuntu: got tired if snaps in apt
Debian: A slightly newer kernel would be nice, but the stability makes me able to use my PC without any problems (KDE Desktop)
Mint: it just works, probably the only distro I've ever used with the right balance between stability, new kernels easy to customize and zero need for the terminal (other than when I want to use it)
Arch: Did a successfull install the 4th attempt... erased the partition later 