Linux

the creation of a non-kodi htpc/media center alternative that works like a smart TV OS and works on a raspberry pi would get me to change my streaming device.

i stream jellyfin from a home server, and jellyfin on kodi is painful to use :(

an OS that can be controlled with tv-controller buttons and has an interface similar to any of the other players in this space would make me throw away my nvidia shield tv in a heartbeat

Dropped Ubuntu because of snaps.

Dropped Manjaro because updating anything on it was too annoying and potentially destructive if you didn't read through every changelog.

Currently on bluefin because everything is working smoothly on it. Also have a Bazzite setup which I'm not as happy with as I am with bluefin but not to the point of thinking of dropping it.

I went Gentoo to Debian to Arch.

Gentoo took too much time to maintain. (Not just compile time. But also human time editing config files).

Debian was great, until I had new hardware that needed a recent kernel and Wayland. i tried testing but that wasn't stable enough and took too much of my time maintaining.

I'm using arch now. i would only switch if they do something egregious (push ads, malware or snap)

I've been running Slackware for a long time and have no intention of switching unless Pat steps down and Slackware goes down with him. As long as my base install receives updates, I'm good. I take care of the rest.

Been running Manjaro for years. Don't really know what would make me change.

I guess maybe if I suddenly started getting more and more dependency errors when upgrading packages from the AUR it would make me consider jumping to put Arch.

But right not that's not the case. So the benefit of switching is out weighed by the pain in the ass of having to say Everything up again.

I've been using Arch (BTW) for a few years now. I would only consider switching to something non-Arch if they started enshittifying like Windows. I don't see that happening though.

Modern desktop enviroment design, and seamless updates like in macOS

I used Fedora KDE from 2012 to 2023, then I moved to Fedora Kinoite because I like the idea of atomic distros. Don't know if that counts though since its mostly the same software, just delivered slightly differently (however you could argue that is the case for all distros)

Snap getting installed, ads when starting a shell. Basically the reasons I ditched Kubuntu.

All I need is a sudden jolt of "I need to test other distros", distro hop for a day or 2,and then end up back in my distro of choice. This happens every couple of months give or take.

My first distro was debian and why I switched was that I wanted up to date packages.

Moved away from Ubuntu due to SNAP. Never looked back.

Ubuntu 20.04 running out of support. Things start to break slowly now and I sure as hell will not go with the corporate asshattery anymore. Might switch to arch but still deciding.

I ditched FreeBSD and Slackware when I got tired of installing everything from scratch on every major release. Compiling stuff from source was interesting for learning and seeing how amazing open source can be, but it wasn't fun long term.

Then I ditched Ubuntu because there was always something not working on laptops, usually related to hibernation/sleep and/or webcam/wireless. I was frustrated with how little care was put into making sure such basic things would simply work.

I'm currently very satisfied with Mint. Everything just works out of the box and Mint X is a lovely theme for old folks like me, who appreciate a proper good looking desktop and can't understand what all the hype is with dark/flat themed UIs these days.

I relatively recently (a year or so?) switched from Ubuntu to Debian.

I felt like Ubuntu was bloating up and that sadly those decisions were done through the enshitification process. I went then "back to basics" and I don't regret it at all.

I had the (wrong) preconception that Debian was "behind" or "slow" for "new" stuff but truth is, despite being "stable" most of what I care about is already in, even for things like gaming in VR. For the rest if I need something "edgy" then I can get the software via another mean than the package manager.

So... what made me change is a desire for more minimalism and the ability to test safely (files saved).

if gentoo decided ti bake spyware into every package that i cant removr thatd be a deal breaker

Previously? Some schmuck changing all the windows to be left-handed, immediately before a long-term-support feature freeze.

Zero percent surprised by many other comments throwing shade at Ubuntu.

On my laptops: Debian -> Fedora. Mostly because I couldn't reliably use my external display on Debian, and because I ~~needed~~ wanted shiny new things. Also new hardware.

On my gaming rig: Manjaro -> Nobara -> Bazzite. I left Manjaro because the system was slowly getting worse with each update, and I wanted to game, not maintain my system. I ditched Nobara after a botched version upgrade. Bazzite is fine for now.

Having more time to spend learning a new distro

The slightest praise for another distro / other feature that I fixate on for a month. I tend to hop.

Its mostly if I see the distro as unmaintainable (looking at gentoo), too much of a hassle to keep updated (Like tumbleweed on a PC i just about never use), or generally not fit for my purpose (If it dosent have packages I need, forces flatpaks, or is generally built in a way I dont find it comfortable to use

Despite using MX only for a relatively short time, just messing around in a VM for a long period of time would increase my odds of switching to something else*.

*when I need to switch to something else or find something a lot better

Hardware bugs/support, and Snap.

Having broken lts-kernel and broken 6.15. At the same time. But the zen kernel saved me. So I guess if it was 3 broken kernels at the same time I would switch distro, haha. Lts was broken amdgpu kernel module, worse then sleep issue for mainline.