Did you ever make a big distro leap?
by Nishtya from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6JJT9)
So have you ever took a distro hop that turned out to be an olympic leap? Why did you move to something considerably different? How did it work out?
I don't want this to be a "what distro for me?" thing. I want to hear about how others have made a change to a really different linux if they ever have made such a change.
Myself I am facing challenge to change to something derived from another distro, pkg mgmt, and possibly a change in DE. Complicating it is trying out with XFCE is different depending on what distro. In some performance is great and in others a dog for a lighter desktop. Myself, this change is because a dependable distro that has been a good daily driver for years is using Snap heavily and it is changing the performance of my most-used apps to a dog on my very modest laptop. New laptop is not in the cards. Even KDE is quite light on some distros but a burden on others. The choices are just too many for me as I have been linuxing around 20 years and seek something more familiar. But have been playing with shiny objects. Could this really be an itch?
Oh, did you end up going back to your ex?
I don't want this to be a "what distro for me?" thing. I want to hear about how others have made a change to a really different linux if they ever have made such a change.
Myself I am facing challenge to change to something derived from another distro, pkg mgmt, and possibly a change in DE. Complicating it is trying out with XFCE is different depending on what distro. In some performance is great and in others a dog for a lighter desktop. Myself, this change is because a dependable distro that has been a good daily driver for years is using Snap heavily and it is changing the performance of my most-used apps to a dog on my very modest laptop. New laptop is not in the cards. Even KDE is quite light on some distros but a burden on others. The choices are just too many for me as I have been linuxing around 20 years and seek something more familiar. But have been playing with shiny objects. Could this really be an itch?
Oh, did you end up going back to your ex?