On Tue, 6 Nov 2018 at 14:18, William Oliver <vendor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I jump around a lot. I usually reinstall my OS every five or six months. I do it primarily as a security issue -- if my machine has been compromised and I don't know it, at least every few months I *know* I'm clean. What I've found is that the "pain" of installation varies from release to release, and is not a fedora/debian/arch/suse issue per se. I've had some cases where fedora installed like a dream and debian/mint/ubuntu had problems, some cases where debian installed easy and fedora crumped, and some cases where arch/manjaro was great and everything else had problems.
A few weeks ago, I went to Manjaro, not because I'm an Arch fan, but because I downloaded fedora, kubuntu, and KDE neon and it was the *only* one that installed without a problem. Before that, KDE neon installed without a hitch. Before that Fedora installed without a hitch.In a few months, I'll do it again, and it will be a different distro that works...Usually, I start with Fedora KDE spin, then try KDE neon, then try Manjaro, then try SUSE.
Your approach has other advantages: you gain perspective on many different distros with a range of installers and package managers and don't carry complex customizations over year after year. Many people will ignore a distro for years after one bad experience, and many problems can be traced to very old configuration settings (e.g., in ~/.config). Switching distros when you encounter a problem with installation probably doesn't leave time with a problem distro to followup with bug reports to ensure the problems you encounter get fixed.
Some people do use multiple distros, either with lots of hardware or VM's.
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George N. White III
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