distroitis

[mr.justin]

i can't stop switching distros i have lots burned and nothing satisfys me everything has advantages and disadvantages. is there any cure for distro-itis the longest i have had a distro is a 1 week in the past 2 months

[MikeTbob]

i can't stop switching distros i have lots burned and nothing satisfys me everything has advantages and disadvantages. is there any cure for distro-itis the longest i have had a distro is a 1 week in the past 2 months

HEHEH, around here, we have a name for this, it's called "Distro Slut". Welcome to the Club. The only known cure, in my opinion is to keep searching until you find a Distro that you really enjoy using. You might have to customize it to your liking (Naturally), but that one elusive Distro is out there. One other thing, I think you should give each Distro a little more break in time, say like 2 weeks. So you really get to know it.

[devils casper]

I agree with MikeTbob. Keep searching Or try to something like Debian. Go for Netinstall. It will install base packages only. Install selective packages according to your needs and customize it.

[daark.child]

I seem to be getting cured. Over the last couple of years, I switched from Gentoo to openSUSE and so far, I have not had the inkling to switch to something else although I still keep up to date with the developments of other distros either for work or just interest. I think over the last 8 - 9 years, I have tried well over 50 - 75 distros.

[elija]

I know the feeling. I'm hoping that virtual machines can help
me leave a distro on my hard drive for longer than a couple
of months.

[oz]

If you keep looking, you'll eventually find a distro that you want to stick with, which is in itself a cure. If you don't find one, you'll likely get tired of distro hopping and return to Windows. I'm betting that if that happens, you'll still wind up coming back to Linux at some point in time.

Good luck with it.

[i92guboj]

If you can't find anything that satisfies you, then you can try Gentoo, which is completely customizable to the greatest degree.

[Geeth]

If you keep looking, you'll eventually find a distro that you want to stick with, which is in itself a cure. If you don't find one, you'll likely get tired of distro hopping and return to Windows. I'm betting that if that happens, you'll still wind up coming back to Linux at some point in time.

Good luck with it.

Thats exactly what happened to me. Had issues with linux and couldn't find a distro that I liked.

After going with out for sometime, I have found paitence (prolly with age) and can now sit with Fedora.


Back to the topic - Try to sit with one to see what 'feels' right. Try different window managers. Or as stated Gentoo, or linux from scratch.

[Freston]

Set up your machine for easy dual booting. Have one distro for day to day operation, and one that you keep changing as many times as you like. Or set up a virtual machine. This doesn't cure distrohopperitus, but it relieves the negative side effects.



I have found that any distro takes work tuning to perceived perfection. Much more work than you can do in a week, as you need to get to know a distro's strengths and weaknesses and you need to think about how to maximize the former and minimize the latter blablabla (I sound like a manager )

Anyway, just keep one distro as a permanent base and try to tune that, while you're checking out the new stuff on your other partition.

Just my €0,02

[hazel]

God, you males! You're like children with a bunch of toys. Why should I want to keep changing distros? Any Linux distro that works on my computer is good enough for me. If I don't like the default selection of apps (and I don't much like the ones that came with Ubuntu) I can always change them without having to reinstall everything. Life's too short for that.