I am just going to tell you guys a story of my linux journey, if you are interested, you can read.
So i have a laptop, which have intel i3 7020U, 4gb RAM and a 256gb of storage. Windows 10 lagged a lot on my laptop and windows 11 was even not available for it. So i switched to the iot ltsc version, still no difference. Then i switched to ubuntu my first ever linux experience. It was very fast, snappy, i started to love it but i leaved it, because my touchpad was not working very well on it (yeah i just leaved it for some touchpad issue) then i tried linux mint, zorin and fedora, the touchpad had the same issue. Unless i switched to opensuse, my touchpad worked great on it. After some days i just got bored and i wanted to distro hope again and i found out fedora just got a new update and the touchpad was working great! I remained there for 2-3 days but i hated gnome experience Even on a laptop. So i switched to mint and then zorin and then i thought to try something new. I tried Arch. I used kde with it, and i just loved it the most. First two install of arch was manual and then after that all the installations was using archinstall. I have reinstalled arch 100+ times i don’t know i just like to do that. I tried xfce, i stayed on hyprland for so much time, i tried lxqt, and so much, Then shifted to kde again. And one day on fmhy i find a index of linux distros in which cachyos was ranking out of every distro. I just tried it and what the hell it was sooo fast, I just don’t know what to say but i am still on it (i have reinstalled it like 20 times) but I love cachyos from my heart. On my laptop with that specs i hit 200+ fps on minecraft in max settings and max chunks which is great.
I even recommended linux to my friend, now my one friend use Arch and he doesn’t want to switch to cachy because he didn’t like the name :). And on my friend laptop i installed cachyos and he is loving it so far he said this laptop was unusable and now works super fast
But why do you reinstall so much? I don’t understand 🤔
some people get a rush with new installs, that must be a serious case to install so much :D
I just like it. Possibly you also like something which can sound stupid to someone and fun to someone, and for me it is fun ;)
In my young days, I would Norton Defrag the hell out of DOS and later Windows. Just watching it work was relaxing. And I probably didn’t know what else to do other than playing games.
Doing the exact same thing over and over again with no reason to be doing it doesn’t sound very fun… Usually I can understand why someone might enjoy something.
When I was a student I had a period when trying different installations was fun. Disto hopping or reinstalling can be a nice hobby.
I can understand distro hopping, to try to find the best suited for you. But why reinstall the same system if it’s working? That I really don’t get… But to each their own I guess!
I’m with you here, I’ve never done the over-and-over installation myself but since you can take different paths with Arch, I can see someone enjoy exploring those paths.
Yeah the main thing I liked about arch is I could have the same install on a system for like 5 years. I installed basically everything so I knew how everything worked and could tinker.