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Just curious to know if anyone has been using the same distro for multiple years/decades and what or if you have it takes for you to want to switch to a different distro?

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[–] ghost_towels 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Could you elaborate on the sketchy shit? I am literally about to switch from openSUSE to Fedora, is there anything I should be aware of? Thanks for your time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

id like to know too