After almost four years of serious distro hopping, I finally found peace.
It wasn’t just six months of casual switching. It was nearly four full years of jumping between distros — installing, configuring, breaking, reinstalling, and repeating the cycle again and again.
I had tried everything — Ubuntu, Pop!_OS, Linux Mint, Manjaro, Fedora, openSUSE, Debian, and many more. But three distros kept pulling me back no matter what: Fedora, openSUSE, and Arch Linux.
I would spend weeks, sometimes months on each one. Fedora for its rock-solid stability and excellent community, openSUSE when I wanted to experiment during major releases, and Arch Linux when I craved bleeding-edge packages and complete control.
Then, around late 2018 to early 2019, something inside me finally clicked.
I was tired of hopping.
I realized I wasn’t searching for the perfect distro anymore — I was just avoiding settling down. So I made the conscious decision to stop.
That’s when I chose Arch Linux.
I’ve been running Arch with Hyprland as my daily driver ever since, using my own mylinuxforwork dotfiles. The setup is clean, fast, minimal, and completely under my control.
Even after settling on Arch, my love for Fedora never died.
In 2022,I joined the Fedora Quality Assurance team as a freelance contributor. For the past four years, I’ve been testing every new Fedora release, reporting bugs, and helping the team improve the distribution.
So while Arch is my home, Fedora remains very close to my heart.
The hopping finally stopped the day I decided to stop searching… and start building.
And honestly? I’ve never been happier with my Linux journey.
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