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Submitted by colinneagle
colinneagle writes "Linux dude Bryan Lunduke blogged here about the top three approaches he thinks are the easiest for new users to pick up Linux. Lunduke's, for example, went Ubuntu -> Arch -> openSUSE.

It begs a question that Slashdot could answer well in the comments: what's your distro use order from beginning to now? Maybe we could spot some trends."
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  • I don't really keep track of the order of the distros I used. I try many distros, go back and forward on each, and sometimes end up using several at the same time. So I for one can not give you an order to my distro usage. Still I did notice a bit of a trend on my choices. I seem to be trending away from 'hands-on' distros, like Gentoo and Fedora, to 'hands-off' distros, like Ubuntu and Mint. Hope it helps.

  • ... also, I use different distros for different purposes.
    Ignoring that, this is what my timeline looks, sorted by first use of each distro:

    fli4l suse gentoo ubuntu debian arch

    1. Slackware in 1996
    2. Redhat in 2003
    3. Ubuntu in 2005
    4. #! (CrunchBang) in 2012
    5. and currently Debian in 2012

    I dropped Ubuntu earlier this year over a number of things, most recently Canonical's announcement regarding UEFI. Mark's "Erm, we have root" comment only made that decision permanent.

    • I've used a lot of distros, even before distros were known as distros

      But thanks for the mention of "CrunchBang" which I've not heard of.

      I'll give it a try later today - I have 3 machines specially built to try out new distros :)

  • My order was (AFAIK)
    Conectiva -> Kurumin -> Debian -> Ubuntu -> Gentoo -> Ubuntu

    I went back to Ubuntu because I wanted to reduce fragmentation. Ubuntu works as well as Gentoo, although it is less fun. If every Linux user chooses a different distribution that maximizes his fun, our small community will be hopelessly fragmented.

    So I went back to Ubuntu to help it achieve critical mass.

  • Like many people before me i "distro hoped" my way through most of the major Linux Distros, and some smaller ones
    im sure this isnt all of them but its as best as i can remember

    Fedora,Ubuntu,Debian,Crux,Puppy,Mint,OpenSuse,Arch,

    I currently have 2 Linux boxes my desktop running Mint 13 KDE x64 and a NAS box running Arch

    Back in 07 I picked up a Book on Linux at the Library it came with a copy of Fedora core 7 I loved it and have been addicted ever since
    I later moved to Ubuntu till 9.10 then over to Debian Stab

The plot was designed in a light vein that somehow became varicose. -- David Lardner

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