Linux

Similar to other users - repos go down or corporate stuff starts to creep in.

As long as I get to maintain agency over my system I’m pretty content.

I used Debian for more than a decade, then tried Arch when I got some near hardware... I did like being a beta tester, so I went for Void.

The only thing that would make me switch to another distro is if Void stops existing.

I used to distro hop all the time until I settled on Tumbleweed. I used that for eight years until Suse bared their corporate teeth and I got fed up with being two generations behind on the Nvidia drivers. I've been using EndeavourOS for almost a year and don't see me moving any time soon.

An operating system is a means to an end. I'm not looking to critique a package manager, I'm looking to get work done. If it can support the applications I need it's perfect.

If all the mirrors for pacman somehow got taken down, probably would switch to something corporate like Ubuntu.

what or if you have it takes for you to want to switch to a different distro?

Any meaningful difference that improves my use. I'm a pragmatist, not a distro zealot.

Snap getting installed, ads when starting a shell. Basically the reasons I ditched Kubuntu.

I used Fedora KDE from 2012 to 2023, then I moved to Fedora Kinoite because I like the idea of atomic distros. Don't know if that counts though since its mostly the same software, just delivered slightly differently (however you could argue that is the case for all distros)

Using Debian for probably a decade now (before that, various Linux distributions).

IMHO only community driven distributions with great (in size as in quality) communities are worth investing time/energy and learning.

One reason to ditch Debian would be that the software I need to run would not run anymore on it or that there would be a too strong commercial influence on the project. Another reason is for play/entertainment where better options exist (SteamOS) or if I need up to date hardware support (Fedora).

After more than two decades with Linux, I will not play around with non mainstream distributions anymore. Have seen too many come and go, and in the end I would rather do something interesting with my computer than playing around with the Linux distribution of the week.

I use Fedora Asahi Remix currently, and I want to switch to NixOS but am uncertain about the MacBook support, and even if it was good switching would take longer than it's worth unless my current installation stops working for whatever reason

Shadow updating their Linux app to support anything other than Ubuntu 20.04...
It's the only reason I use it, and it's weird and bad that they only support that distro and version (which has reached EOL). I've talked to them about it and all they say is "We see the need from users for support of newer Ubuntu versions and other distros" which is such a nothingburger of an answer. I spent three days with several other distros and Ubuntu versions trying to figure out a fix but sadly never found one. I just wanna use Linux Mint or anything other than Ubuntu, especially a 5 year old version.

I'm attracted by Alpine Linux, but it lacks an official way to use glibc for the programs that unfortunately use some glibc extension...

Pretty pleased with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Only reason for me to change would be if there were a Debian based rolling release distro with the same quality as Tumbleweed.

I've been using Arch (BTW) for a few years now. I would only consider switching to something non-Arch if they started enshittifying like Windows. I don't see that happening though.

It'd just have to stop working. I've been running debian for probably 10 years now and it's problem free. I don't care that it's not up to date in comparison to other distros. It's stable and works.

I like the question. Nothing would make me change. I use Debian for servers and fedora for my desktop. The distro is not what makes it good or not. The window manager does not change the only think that does change is the package manager and how up to date it is.

I only use Debian for servers because the installer makes it super easier to install without a wm.

I use fedora for my desktop because I like the atomic versions and more up to date packages.

For the 'I use ... BTW' meme to say something else.

No, actually, I can't think of anything. I'm pretty comfortable with it at this point. Been running it since 2013...

The Nix ecosystem would have to fall apart.

Switched from Fedora to Debian. Here are my reasons:

1. That computer doesn’t need the latest versions. Debian is new enough for me.
2. The update GUI has been broken for years. I fixed it once, but then it broke again after a year. I’ve been installing updates from the terminal, because I can’t trust the GUI. I realized I appreciate reliability, and that’s exactly what Debian is all about.
3. Can’t be bothered to do much admin work like that.

preinstalling snaps. i havent bothered to format my computer in years though, so i just purge it off for now.

Modern desktop enviroment design, and seamless updates like in macOS

Debian for about two decades: It would take something pretty major to shift me - probably a hostile takeover, major policy shift or commercialisation, none of which is likely.

At worked we shifted from Centos to Rocky for the obvious reason, and are happy with the choice so far.

At this point i think nix would have to die. I like the declaritive way of doing things, and invested a lot of time in learning how to use it.

I'd start mixing it up if I got a new computer and could play around more on my current laptop.

I've been using Artix Linux for 5 years. Its great, minimal, and does everything I need for my day to day tasks.

If I were to ever change, it'd probably be because the devs could no longer maintain it. In which case I'd probably just hop to Gentoo.