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Distro hopping is a phenomenon found only in Linux.
There are several reasons why you might find yourself hopping.
The important thing is to find a distro that best suits you.
Back in my early days of using Linux, I hopped from one distribution to another. For me, it was about curiosity and learning as much as I could about Linux. I had no idea what the landscape had to offer and figured I'd better try as many options as I could before I settled into one particular distribution.
Little did I know that I'd continue to distro hop for years. It wasn't until I purchased my first desktop PC from System76 that I wound up sticking with one particular distribution for nearly a decade (with the exception of a brief dalliance with Ubuntu Budgie after a hardware failure).
For someone who had jumped between more distributions than I could count, that's an amazing feat and should illustrate how good Pop!_OS is. And given what System76 has done with COSMIC desktop, I cannot imagine that I'll be doing any hopping around for a very long time.
But what are the primary causes of hopping from one Linux distribution to another? It's not like MacOS or Windows users can do this…so why Linux?
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