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Linux Users: Do You Distro Hop or Stick With One Flavour?

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For Linux users here, do you like to distro hop or do you find yourself sticking with just one distro and keeping it going?

For my desktop, prior to it starting to age a bit, I stuck with Linux Mint and Win10 dual-boot, now it's pure Win10 just until I can build a new machine, then it'll be pure Linux (Fedora, Zorin or Pop_OS, still haven't decided). On my laptop, however, I distro-hop frequently. It's currently running Zorin, but I've been through just about every distro out there and it's been fun getting to know them all! A lot are just minor re-skins of other distros, but some are truly unique and exceptionally flavours of Linux. I like to see what each distro has to offer :).

Does anyone else distro hop or are you loyal to one in particular?
 
I use Arch on my desktop with a Win10 dual-boot (though I barely ever go into Win these days), and I've not seen any reason to swap distros since I decided to install Linux on it in the first place.
On my old desktop I have Ubuntu on it, not sure the particular version but probably LTS, and that machine is used to host an NS2 server and a Pokemon Showdown server. I tried PopOS! because that works great in my VMs, but for some reason it had trouble installing on this desktop, so I just went with Ubuntu since I was looking for a quick & easy setup to begin with.

10 or so years ago though, sure, when I was using Win7 and didnt dare actually install Linux onto my desktop, I tried out tonnes on a spare laptop. Never used them more than a few hours though so I hardly became familiar with each distro or even Linux itself.
 
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