I Can't Stop Trying Out New Distros

**penguinette** · 08-03-2005

I can't seem to stop trying new Linux distros. I'm on my 15th or so. Even when they run OK for a few days, I get an urge a few days later to install a new one. Each one has had a bug or something annoying; each one has had something really good about it, too.

I can't seem to find that "perfect" one. (And no, in case you were wondering, I'm not advanced enough to install a customized system with Gentoo). Anyway, I'm wondering if I will ever find one that wows me so much that I will want to keep it for a very long time.

Has anyone else gone through this? I'm afraid I'm going to mess up my hard drive by continually installing/formatting. But it's so fun that I can't stop myself.

**lakerdonald** · 08-03-2005

Don't worry your hard drive is safe. And with the new Catalyst installer, gentoo isn't that hard to install anymore. And keeping it up to date is as simple as:

Code:

emerge -uDN world

**penguinette** · 08-03-2005

Is the new Catalyst installer on the Gentoo 2005.0 version?

**lakerdonald** · 08-03-2005

No idea. Try the gentoo release notes..http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/index.xml

**budman7** · 08-03-2005

What I did was to create several partitions on my 120 GB drive and put a distro on each one.
If I get tired of a distro I just boot into a different distro, and yes they all have there little quirks.
But i just keep tweaking them till I get it just right or get frustrated with it and boot to a different distro.
You see all of the distros in my sig, I boot all of them.

**lakerdonald** · 08-03-2005

Or, just stick to Gentoo/Slackware and you'll be set

oz · 08-03-2005

Originally Posted by penguinette

I can't seem to find that "perfect" one.

You won't find the perfect one but sooner or later you will find one that you keep returning to.

That's what happened to me with Arch. It's a cool one and is now my default distro, but I still try others when the notion hits me ( which is frequent

). I've been through about 60 or 70 distros, now.

**TheFourthBeast** · 08-03-2005

To me, this shows how much cooler Linux is than Windows. Have you ever heard anyone say, "yeah, I was using xp pro but then I wanted to try ME and then xp again with sp2 and then 95: I just can't get enough!" More like you hear, "I'm sick of Windows."

**George Harrison** · 08-03-2005

I used to be the same way - installing new OS's every day.

My turning point for me was when I found Debian Testing, I was deeply impressed with apt I thought "No way.. all these packages.. cool!!" I stuck with that for a month or two.. kinda got bored when I couldn't really tweak stuff anymore and everything just worked, it was Windows but without spyware/viruses. Directly after that I found Gentoo which kept me busy for a long time, I allways find myself running back to any *BSD or Gentoo.

**eatinglemur** · 08-03-2005

I too am a distro nomad. I did it a very frenzied pace during my first few years, but now I'm a bit more slow to move. Right now I'm settled with Fedora Core, but the problem is that distros are always changing. Sometimes they get better, sometimes they get worse, and I'm always stuck hopping around to whichever meets my needs the best these days. Fedora Core has the longest run with me so far, which is just over a year. Of course, that was about how long I kept FreeBSD. Right now I'm contemplating migrating to Debian--the release of Sarge has made it more tantalizing.

I was originally a RedHat user, and that may have something to do with my choice of Fedora, though my FreeBSD background is a bit more extensive, so I can easily be pulled off in the opposite direction. Either way, I may simple have kept with FC this long because I am very distracted by school and things. As long as the OS keeps chugging and upgrades smoothly, I'm free to worry about other things.

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