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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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How to distrohop!? (feddit.org)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Teppichbrand@feddit.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I'm on Linux for a couple of years and I love it. Distrohoping never interested me though, I'm content with my flavour. But I need to reinstall my OS soon and it gives me headaches. So many settings I changed, applications I installed, configured and forgot about.
Now I read about all you guys constantly distrohopping for fun, how do you even do this? Do you start from scratch, explore everything and leave after months of putting in all the work of making an OS your own!? Or do you just casually check it out a couple of days? What do you do with all your music, pictures, addons, portable software?

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[–] prole@beehaw.org 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I don't. I switched to Bazzite after using EndeavourOS for a while, and those are the only two I've used. I see no reason to ever go back from Bazzite though.

With immutable distros you can "rebase" very easily to a different immutable distro with literally one command. I haven't really messed with it yet, but it seems pretty straightforward.

[–] themadcodger@kbin.earth 2 points 1 day ago

That's me and Bluefin now.

[–] Teppichbrand@feddit.org 1 points 23 hours ago

I'm really interested in an immutable distro. I installed Silverblue on a friend's laptop, tried it, liked it but I'm on Linux Mint and I don't want to switch. Immutable Mint Debian Edition would be great. :)