So, to clarify, after installing a linux distro, what is longest amount of time you've used it before reformatting and starting fresh. I was on Fedora for almost a decade and then I switched to opensuse tumbleweed- I love it. I may switch to Leap and thats why I thought of this question.
I had a production server go a decade without major upgrades, 2.0 kernel era. Might've been the last BIND4 server on the net when it went away.<p>One of my personal systems went about 12 years without any real changes. it was my "network swiss army knife" laptop that got retired / wedged in expediently as a house router, and never really thought about again until the hardware died.