{"id":277279,"date":"2026-06-20T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/after-8-distros-in-two-years-the-one-that-stopped-my-hopping-is-boring-on-purpose\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T18:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T22:10:10","slug":"after-8-distros-in-two-years-the-one-that-stopped-my-hopping-is-boring-on-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/after-8-distros-in-two-years-the-one-that-stopped-my-hopping-is-boring-on-purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"After 8 distros in two years, the one that stopped my hopping is boring on purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/after-8-distros-in-two-years-the-one-that-stopped-my-hopping-is-boring-on-purpose\/\">After 8 distros in two years, the one that stopped my hopping is boring on purpose<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/after-8-distros-in-two-years-the-one-that-stopped-my-hopping-is-boring-on-purpose\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/after-8-distros-in-two-years-the-one-that-stopped-my-hopping-is-boring-on-purpose\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-20 18:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At one time Linux felt more like a hobby than an OS, which made me burn through eight distros in two years. However, I wouldn&#8217;t take all the blame. Several distros I tried were so entertaining that I couldn&#8217;t help but focus on what could be next. Landing on Debian was so uneventful that the urge to keep chasing what&#8217;s flashy and exciting died.<\/p>\n<p>Debian remains functional and identical from month to month, with no temptations to install new software or tweaks. It turned my focus from the OS back to the actual work I had to do. I never knew that embracing an intentionally boring distro could be such a productivity cheat code.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tLinux Mint was throttling my modern hardware by default \u2014 3 changes fixed it completely<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Free RAM sitting idle while apps stutter is a configuration problem.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"debian-rarely-gives-you-fomo\">\n                        Debian rarely gives you FOMO<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"new-releases-stopped-feeling-important\">\n            New releases stopped feeling important<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>          &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/after-8-distros-in-two-years-the-one-that-stopped-my-hopping-is-boring-on-purpose\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 8 distros in two years, the one that stopped my hopping is boring on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":277280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/06\/debian-stable-os.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[91,71,110],"class_list":["post-277279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-debian","tag-linux","tag-linux-mint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277281,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277279\/revisions\/277281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}