Hello,
I try out new distro every week since I have a lot of free time and want to learn more about Linux. I was thinking that it would be interesting to make a Lemmy post every week talking about my experience with the distro and what I did with it. right now I have alpine linux installed and thinking about using it till next sunday.
feel free to suggest next distro that I should try out. (I have tried out a lot of distros but never wrote anything about the experience but now on I will be making post about it here on Lemmy :) )
If your goal is to learn about Linux, a single manual arch install will teach you more than going through a 100 near identical wizards. And that’s before going into actually useful resources like those that prepare you for Linux cert exams.
If your goal is to compare distros, a week is not nearly enough time.
I second this. Not wanting to shoot down your idea, quite a big deciding factor for me is the release cycle and update process and you won’t experience that in a week. Might be a good idea to list what you’ve already tried though.
how much time should I spend with a distro to actually get the gist of the distro? a month maybe?
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Enough to find and overcome issues with how you use it.
If you quit a distro before you run into an issue then that’s not very helpful when it comes time to make a choice
If you aren’t able to overcome and fix an issue that you run into while using the computer the way you would normally, then your probably not learning much about Linux.
My recommendation is to go for at least a minor kernel upgrade.
If all you want to do is test out distros before you commit to an install, then check out https://distrosea.com/
You could install any distribution and use distrobox to get the hang of all distros. At the end of the day a distro is just a starting point of a configuration. Once you learn to customize it to your liking other than what Repo and package management you use. Every distro is the same and the community around the distro is more important. At that point distro hopping is not a tech thing at all. But most people distro hop because they thing if I just find the better distro then everything will work but there is no better distro. They can all be configured the same.