• Bongles@lemmy.zip
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    18 hours ago

    People here are always talking about different distros, trying this one and then that one until they found what they like. Are you guys really just reinstalling your OS that often? Reinstalling all the programs you want and everything?

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      10 hours ago

      I’m not. Mint is all I need, Mint is all I want.

      These comments really make me wonder if people would just get therapy instead of installing Arch if therapy was cheaper.

    • lime!@feddit.nu
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      13 hours ago

      it’s called “distrohopping”, and yes. nowadays it’s easier to do it in a vm, but less fun

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      11 hours ago

      Why not? It takes a few hours at most, and I get a new interesting experience.

      It is amazing if you’ve settled on your distribution of choice, though.

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      15 hours ago

      When I started out, I used to change distros like socks lol While you do have to reinstall programs, having a separate /home partition means that you can keep your stuff between changes