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Alt text: A line plot with 2 axis (confidence vs competence) referencing the Dunning-Kruger effect with various distro logos placed at different points on the line. Starts with mint/ubuntu near (0,0) and progressing through multiple distros to end up with opensuse/fedora at what it calls βthe plateau of sustainabilityβ
Been using Arch + KDE Plasma since 2021 with very few issues. Now I have a job as a support engineer for a Linux software company.
I'm gonna put this out there: If you can do Endeavour or Manjaro, you can do Arch, and Arch is in no way less stable than Tumbleweed. All you need to do is to pick btrfs and enable snapshots and then never use them.
I know nothing, and I'm keeping it that way
My system of choice is Mint, btw
Almost there. Iβm on AlmaLinux Atomic Desktop GNOME. Itβs freaking sweet. The main thing that kept me from an ultra-stable distro for the longest time was the lack of user packages, but now with Flatpak and Brew, itβs pretty nice. No more distro-hopping for me.
My guess before reading the comments:
"Everyone hated that."
I started out with Slackware 3.0. It broke all the time. Tried Debian. Was happy ever since. Tried Ubuntu on laptops but later decided it's just Debian with extra steps so I went with Debian after all.
I went directly from ubuntu to arch, and then fedora. My curve was like a 1st order system, without that confidence overshoot. However, I don't feel like competent today, neither I have confidence in my skills.
"trauma induced return to Ubuntu" π it was my wifi not working that did it, and I'm just so used to Ubuntu from years of using it at work...
I mean I primarily use arch and would confidently call myself an actual expert. I do use debian for servers tho. So maybe I'm nearing the slope of enlightenment?
Been in the Valley of Despair (Gentoo) for twenty years.
I think I like it here.
I'm running Kinonite and Fedora Cinnamon spin on my two machines. So I must be at 'enlightenment'.
Honestly, I'm tired Boss-- so tired. After years and years of fooling around with various Distros, I no longer want to work hard to make my computer work. I like the auto-update feature of Kinonite. Life is short and I ain't got that much of it left to waste on Arch.......
You did good, son. You did good. Rest now, you earned it
Being a Debian guy for a long time, now Guix.
I am a Debian guy right now, what did Guix do to attract you away from Debian?
Yes random voice on the Internet please talk me out of my hard won respect for reliability.
I'm using Ubuntu. Please be kind
I just switched to Debian this week after using Ubuntu for a very long time. I get it, Ubuntu is made by a for profit company but it has a lot working by default and replacing those in Debian takes precious time.
Terminal transparency, NVIDIA driver support, permanent dock, pretty disk encryption unlocking screen, many gnome tweaks (minimize/maximize), non-free and contrib apt repos, and probably many more are in Ubuntu but not Debian by default. Ubuntu looks a bit prettier. The installer is way less intuitive in Debian too, to me, and looks ugly.
But hey at least I can sleep at night π
You are awesome for using Linux. Any Linux. Thatβs a fact
I'm on garuda so i guess at the start on that. Already been through the valley of despair though, went back to windows and it sucked so i went right back on garuda, which has been working since.
Debian. Anything to the right is lies.
Swap Fedora and Debian, now the chart is correct.
I'm at the Kubuntu stage, and don't intend on changing anytime soon!
I've been running Gentoo on my desktop for twenty years (it's survived multiple changes in hardware, even going from Intel to AMD hardware). It's fine for my laptop, too.
But my NAS/media server? KUbuntu. Easy peasy, slap it on there, update regularly, and I don't worry about it.
Me too. I love the configurability of plasma combined with the popularity of ubuntu search results if I need to fix or change something.
I'm at the 2nd Fedora stage but I feel like I skipped too many steps to get there.
This is pretty accurate, but I skipped MX and only recently took a look at it. Why is it there on the line? So far it seems like the perfect Distro to customize and lockdown for old people low on tech literacy to use.
Mint and Arch. Two lowest parts of the graph... Yeah, that tracks.
I was using Ubuntu and Linux Mint more than a decade ago, then I switched to Debian, so I guess I skipped most of this curve, lol.
I'm at the stage where I can't decide whether the Debian logo reminds me more of the Sega Dreamcast or Lawry's seasoned salt.
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Why are all my Linux distros on the first parts of the line?????
Also, I love openSUSE. But then I started playing around and installing other distros to test them and can't get openSUSE to install. No matter how I try to install it, soon as I select to install, it gives me some out of memory error followed by a kernel crash. I'm just a registry hive with big dreams of a better OS!
I run Fedora in the Valley of Despair.
Linux Mint and haven't done anything else for over a year.
This is quite an accurate meme. I wouldn't call myself a guru, but I'm at the openSUSE stage (Tumbleweed ftw).
It just strikes the perfect balance of the things I care about most.
I started with FreeBSD, Fedora, and Debian, and was comfortable on all three. I've run OpenSolaris and NetBSD in the past too. I experimented with Nix OS recently but decided it wasn't my style. I currently have machines with Manjaro and various Ubuntu distros, Windows and Mac OS.
Where do I fit on your scale?
I think I'm at the top of mount stupid, because I'm certainly not competent.
I started with Linux Mint and daily drove that for a while. Really liked it too. Then I noticed that screen sharing ssssuuucked when playing games, and since Mint's Wayland didn't want to work on my machine, I decided to jump ship.
I'm currently on Nobara (Glorious Eggroll's Fedora flavor) and.. it's just pretty easy to work with.
Or maybe I'm at the know nothing stage, along with PopOS
