Is distrohopping in Linux becoming a thing of the past?

Posted by jimlynch on Aug 26, 2014 10:18 PM EDT
ITworld; By Jim Lynch
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In today's open source roundup: Distrohopping may be losing popularity among Linux users. Plus: A Linux user switches to Mac then comes back, and journalist laments the headaches of recompiling the Linux kernel.

It saddens me to see someone so dead set against distrohopping, but I can understand where he's coming from since it can be a real time-suck if you do it frequently. But I think it's quite possible to find a main distro to stay with while still allowing yourself the geekish pleasure of using many other distros.

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