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I have long loooooong ago given up on distro hopping because, at the end of the day, most distros are close enough to each other that it doesn't really matter which one you choose at the end of the day. These new immutable ones though.. They seem cool as hell. I need to give one a go someday.
Same, I found Arch over a decade ago and stopped looking.
I've been distro hopping a bit lately trying out some immutable distros like nix,fedora kinoite,microos,but I always end up back on arch. I think that settles it and I should just stop,cause distro hopping is a waste of time.
Nix was my stop
I found out about it a year or two back but never checked it out, Arch is my go-to since I've been using it for so long. Even after using RHEL/CentOS/Fedora at work for 5 years, Arch is still what I like better.