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?

  • Noble Bacon@lemmy.mlPortuguês
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    24 hours ago

    As someone who distrohoped quite a bit, let me give you some advice:

    • Try the new distro in a VM first.
    • Configure your distro as you want and put all the commands you used in a script to use when you make the switch.
    • Ask your self, what do i get from distrohoping? Is it really worth it?
    • Create a dotfilles git repo with all of your configs. Create a script to install your dotfiles easily. (Either by copying them to .config or creating symlinks)

    Remember that, at the end, linux is linux, remember that you can customize you distro to look exactly like the fancy one you saw.