I’ve been boycotting Amazon since 2004. Waiting for everybody else to see it too. … See it yet??? Everybody???

Yeah, doesn’t growl and make an angry fuss. It’s all so graceful.

My old one was a petrol mid-engine, real wheel drive, manual, no power steering, no power brakes, with twin sunroof. ;D

This sports car pedigree is adequate masculinity bragging rights. ;D

… Also, according to the advertising, it picks up 5 times as many women as a lambo. :D

Reminds of the moments when paying for fuel, and SUV drivers waiting next in the queue weep when they see how much I pay, as a microbus driver. Yeah. I have double the usable space in my vehicle, and am paying less than half for fuel.

Tragic. Shows we never know when. And a little irony there too, in how we’ve lost the chap who contributed so much to preparation [and so recent too] for what to do if we lose that other chap.

Oogh. Such rage bait.

Don’t call them mister, guy.

In 2010, I fucked with a gentoo to the "USE="-*""th degree.

Honed it to just what I needed.

No more.

Most productive period of my life.

Big love to void. It was my go-to to install for the longest while. Still always a cornerstone of all my systems. Still my first go-to to get packages from, and is surprisingly well stocked for such a “little”(?) “new”(?) distro.

Yep. I do love to play around with my computers (which does risk breaking things)… but when life gets hard, and have too few spoons, it’s an important choice for health and sanity, to have something that “just works”. It’s Devuan for me, when I need[ed] that.

Warning. You are the same person.

From 2004-2008, I lost count how many tall spools of CD/DVD I tried, before I moved to USB pendrives for my distro surfing and distro hopping, for 2008-2012, and even more lost track how many many many more done ephemerally so, leaving no trace.

in 2012, I found a way I did not need to wrestle the compromises to try to find “the one”, and embraced the many, with bedrocklinux’s 2nd alpha release, and stopped all the rabid distro-hopping.

But…

Me on my way to distro hop for the 72th time

… Never needed be the corporate psycho though. You distro-hop differently to how I distro-hop. To me, it’s a joy of exploration. To you, it’s an inconvenient strategic means to power. We are not the same. ;)

Also… I’d say “72nd”.

Edit:

Okay… I’m going to try answer this a 2nd time, in similar style as how others answered.

Suse > Sabayon > Crunchbang & Gentoo > Bedrock

Suse and Sabayon were basically my homebases from which I distro-surfed (1000s? 100s of distros). … Though that didn’t stop them getting hopped from and back to several times in each their aprox 4 years tenure.

I suppose I should at least make it this much more accurate, to give Devuan its due too.

2003 Suse > 2007 Sabayon > 2009 Crunchbang (on thinkpad) & 2010 Gentoo (on workstation) > 2012 Bedrock > 2018 Devuan > 2020 Bedrock

And all the spray of others don’t get a mention. n_n

Almost never used systemd. Did not like the exceptions.

It’s nice that on gentoo (and decent gentoo respins), you can choose. It’s not leaning on you, with the “we don’t support”, the impression it has to be either systemd, or anything but systemd, respective of which camp that distro is in. But still, it is nicer to be in one of the distros that [purport to offer “init-freedom” but really] do “anything but systemd”, for the range of choice and freedom that affords, contrast to the dogma of the one true way that all must follow. Systemd! Systemd! Systemd! Come, join the cult! Hehe. But, no, more choice is better. … And not just a choice of which one true way (as in whatever the distro tries to decide for you), but choice within that distro too.

Okies… Let me just wipe the mouth froth away, and come to my senses again, out of that little gentoo gushing rant… What was this comment about again? Oh right… which distros… Yeah, answered. Now I’m just in overkill, burying the lede again, as pre usual. Meep.

Stable over rolling release?

These are not mutually exclusive.

Can haz stable rolling.

E.g. use Gentoo, and avoid the ~ and ** keywords.

Gentoo’s all about choice. You can choose to configure it so it does not require hand holding, and running it like a tamagochi. Or you can choose to fiddle with it so much it’s very time demanding… not the compiling, so much as the system configuration management. There’s official binhost now anyway. But then, if you’re fiddling around alot, you’ll send emerge to compile rather than just get a binary, to meet all your exacting nuances of configuration.

I have one gentoo that’s been rock solid for … about 17 years, with only one blip of downtime when there was a fire. No hand-holding.

Arch is indeed a different beast. In my experience, it’s only a matter of (relatively short) time before Arch eats its kernel or some other catastrophe that requires rescue or abandon.

Respect to Manjaro for what they try do, offer arch with more stability (and conveniences).

On a whim, just now, I made this

But, then, I hear many things have changed in arch, since I last used arch (just before the switch to systemd)… and maybe things have changed, and it does not do that any more…?

A-ha! I knew I was suave.

That was a slow burner for my dyslexia.

What the heck am I then?

A container slut.

???

But… there are zero containers on any of my systems.

Actually, looking at that list again, I see I’ve neglected upgrading on that computer for longer than I realised… chimaera as testing? *checks site*, yeah that’s “Chimaera 4.0 has moved to oldoldstable status.”. That’s like 4 versions old. XD

Interesting graphs.

Alas, the metric’s a mite confounded by the different ways distros split up packages. So it skews e.g. the Debians up, and the voidlinuxen down.

… I’m guessing that still wouldn’t be enough to put a dent in AUR and nixpkg 's towering package counts though.

Phew! For a split second I misred that as chmod o+w.

That’s all it takes to be a distro slut!?

What the heck am I then?

%brl list -v
artix
bedrock
ceres -> devuan-ceres
devuan -> devuan-ceres
devuan-ceres
devuan-ceres-new
devuan-chimaera
devuan-testing -> devuan-chimaera
devuan-unstable -> devuan-ceres
exherbo
fartix
fentoo
fexherbo
garyos
gentoo
gentoostudio
goblin
gs -> gentoostudio
hijacked -> gentoo
init -> gentoo
jentoo
kentoo
kentwo
local -> gentoostudio
marklar
oasis
pclinuxos
space
suckless
tentoo
tudio -> gentoostudio
ubuntu
void
void-kde

And that’s just one of my computers.

[… it’s starting to make sense, thinking about one thing I made, I called wminizer]