This is real. I Used to hop distros like a mad man and I stopped hopping after installing arch and started hopping between desktop environments and window managers. Source: r/linuxmastrrrace

Why do you use Arch ?

You know that systemd-boot is a thing? Let's start bootloader-hopping.
(I currently have both grub and systemd since primmarily switched to systemd, but wan't to test some custom boot entries).

@-red I tried Antergos while hopping distro and liked PACMAN,AUR and Arch Wiki. My antergos installation broke after updating it. Then I decided to install arch step by step by following wiki to know what is happening behind the scenes. I never looked back since then(about 1 year ago)

@-red Dude you are scaring me

I'm happy with arch + dwm, but I'm using the true linux console a lot (who needs X?). Programming and typing papers is easy and for previewing pdfs I use fbpdf (using the framebuffer). Currently testing out dvtm as a terminal multiplexer. It works fine, but I need X for surfing etc. Any recommendations welcome

@-red wow, we where thinking that you where a bot red! Good to see a question! (Unless you indeed are a bot and we all are screwed!)

@benj Well.. If a bot posted all of my rants it really is a cause for concern.

@-red hehehe! Not rant but upvotes :-)

@benj Well that would be a cause for concern too. 😅

@-red it would... 😂😂🤣🤣

I distro hopped then DE-hopped too

Ubuntu→Fedora 13→(a few years of Windows pass)→Fedora 28→Fedora 13 (doesn't run on my laptop)→Linux Mint (now)

DE:
GNOME→XFCE→KDE→fluxbox→Cinnamon.
cinnamon best env

@sirjofri links for surfing!!!

@ParkCity yeah, links is great. But w3m can display images in the framebuffer. Sadly many pages today require javascript and are almost unreadable without css... Modern webpages are not built for the last century

@-red absolute madlad

@jokerreturns I felt the same way about arch... it's interesting to set up and fairly easy to switch WM.. I don't have Linux as my main OS anymore but if I need some sweet sweet environment for deployments I just setup a virtual machine with Manjaro on it. I ended up liking Manjaro more than Arch in the end and pacman + AUR feels incredibly slick!

You don't need arch to de hop.
Any linux distribution willl do just fine