I have been using Linux for around 20 years. Mixed in there are about 3 years of FreeBSD. For servers, I still use FreeBSD. Been a hopper for 20 years and am getting sick of it. I have literally used most of the distros on distrowatch: some for minutes, some for hours, a very few for weeks or months. The ones I have used the longest are Gentoo (~3 years), Arch (years, not sure), FreeBSD (not Linux, maybe 2 years).
Settled on Ubuntu because frankly, it just works. My hardware is finicky (graphics stack) and very few things work well with it. I am also picky, but getting less and less so, because I just want my computer to work.
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