Distro-hoppers Anonymous (Page 1 of 43)

My advice is to use VirtualBox and just enjoy distro-hopping. I think its good to try other distros: you learn new things and you either find a better distro or (in your case) you find reasons to stick with one.

Now that I think about it, I haven't tried a new distro since I installed #! .... that's a good thing, right?

Will be building (and possibly failing) a Minimal Debian (or maybe Arch) + Openbox combo during the Xmas break, though.

^ update I forgot to add I'm using #! 64 for my live cd to install funtoo.

Haha same here

this thread is hilarious

I'm not bashing AA, it helped my Dad overcome a real alcoholism.  It's funny how much their acronyms apply to us at DHA.

HALT = Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired: Fix these situations before you make any decisions.

Hungry: I can compile this source based distro while I go out for dinner with the fam.

Angry: Damnit another karmic bug!

Lonely: I'm so lonely from reclusing and configuring Arch.  Better switch to Chakra.

Tired: It's 3:00 AM and I'm up late working on a project. * thought * Let's cruise over to Distro watch and see what's goin on.  4:00 AM * thought * How much longer is the Debian CD set gonna take to finish downloading??

Well, I sure feel better after unloading here yesterday, but was plagued by a nightmare last night about the "perfect" linux distro. Toward the end it took on a somewhat human form with a conky head, a spinning CD nose, and a horrendous laugh: "Bwaaahahahahaha!" Anyway, I woke up in a cold sweat this morning, fired up the eee 900a with the full intent of searching for the perfect distro, and came to my senses when #! appeared on the desktop. Time to get my old backside to a meeting.

And what a thrill it was to find evidence of activity in the DHA meeting room!

@anonymous and omns: I fully understand that your intentions are righteous and helpful (for those not tormented by diagnosable distrohopism), but for those of us with *the problem* a VM or liveCD is only one quick step away from a serious relapse. It's like buying a "lite" beer for a Bourbon-guzzling gutter dweller. You two gentlemen are obviously "social" distro-hoppers and not in need of this group.

@Gutterslob: Some folks can do cold-turkey completely unaware that they may have had a problem, but I just want to let you know that this group will be open 24/7 after the holidays in case you find that you may have a need. Just sayin'. -- I love your street persona, but I seriously hope you don't find yourself (say, very early on New Year's Day) waking up in a back alley on a pile of CDs with distro names scrawled on 'em. It could eventually lead to "Hey, buddy...can you spare a distro?" out on the cold, hard street.

@gogi-goji: Dude. Whatever turns your crank. Peace with Arch. Peace with #! It's all good. Easy does it.

@p0rks3d, Digit and Klanger: Keep coming to meetings. p0rks3d, it's gonna be OK. I can see that you're still a bit giggly at times, but it's gonna work out if you can stay away from that *download* button. Klanger and Digit, you guys are well on the way to recovery. I can see that you've dragged your noses through the distro wasteland long enough to smell real fear.
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eeepc 701 4gb ssd, 1mb ram (#!) - eeepc 900a 16g ridata ssd, 2gb ram (#!)
"Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum."
(A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants.)

I started with Ubuntu about two years ago then used that ocassionally but with Windows as my main os. I then bought a eee pc with Xandros Linux which I used for a few months, then I installed Ubuntu-eee and then started hopping with vanilla Ubuntu, Mandriva, Puppy, Crunchbang and Arch. Then I bought a Dell Mini 10v which I installed Crunchbang on, then I switched to Ubuntu and have now finally settled on Arch. There are some other distros I have tried but i can't remember now.

Last edited by craigh (2009-12-13 00:29:05)

p0rksh3d,  yep, i wouldnt bash em either.  got some friends who could use AA, and have just recently been to similar therapy groups to help with being mental.
H.A.L.T.    glad u brought that up... found it useful a couple posts later.

klanger, that reminds me... i was going to start a kind of "explain bsd to us" thread.  tried it once or twice, but couldnt aquire the taste, though i know it's got its own very admirable worthyness.

saneks, m-m-mMM.   japanese distros, bulgarian distros, russian distros, argintinian distros, brazillian distros... i know what you mean.  it's bizarre, but when you've got your distro hop ball rolling, you make all sorts of excuses in your mind.  "foreigners use english speaking distros without their native language supported, so i can do the same." and "i'll muddle through, might find how to use it and it might be the best distro ever, or at least give me some good ideas."   it just doesnt work like that though, and i know that now.
   when i saw you say japanese distros, i immediately thought "i wonder how momonga is doing these days" and without thinking immediately flinched to take myself there, and if it were not for HALT, i would have too.  i just know it would have been a bad move, since i would have gone to find momonga through distrowatch... that place is not the place to be when in need of a HALT check. 

hopping through a few distros is a good thing.   i reccomend it to anyone just setting out on their linux honeymoon.
i know we're having a bit of fun with this, but when surfing distros takes up more time than your work and recreation combined, it's become a problem.
"first step to solving a problem is acknowledging it's existence."
i've had other addictions in the past.  tobacco.  Dr Pepper.  Diablo2.   and there always has to come that point where, usually in moments of extreme excess, you realise, you have a problem.
visiting my smoking friends rather than my non smoking friends.   drinking 9 litres in 24 hours.   being unable to go out because you need to do more baal runs.   something usually needs to snap before you acknowledge it as a problem.   and here's the good news fellow DHA members...  that first step...  that first step takes you half way to solving the problem.    so since you're here... give yourselves a pat on the back, you've every right to feel good about yourselves.  you're half way already!

all the best guys.

Last edited by Digit (2009-12-13 07:25:19)

dling dragonflybsd.
this is not a relapse.  honest.

@Ronin

well said!

Haha i love that benj1, that is me (well apart from being able to compile kernel)!

I was a windoze-only point-click-scratch-head man until September this year.  Had no idea what linux was, what a partition was, what GUI stood for, or... you get the point.

Three months on I have a 12-partition set up on my notebook, with 3 or 4 regular distros and another 3 or 4 partitions on which I cycle anything that looks interesting.   I spend more time on distrowatch than facebook