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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
"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...
Starting fights today are we?
Debian. Anything to the right is lies.
Swap Fedora and Debian, now the chart is correct.
Debian, since etch. Also, not corpo owned since birth.
The Fedora propaganda is getting annoying.
Itβs linuxmemes, you get the choice between that and debian propaganda.
Ubuntu and Mint need to be repeated on the far right (the actual Sesame Street definition of "right", not Nazis)
Seriously. I feel like the people I know who know the most about computing have the least preferences for a distro, if they even use Linux at all.
Too right. Gimme a stable distro with broad compatibility and a strong community to fall back on for support any day of the week over this elitist BS.
Mandrake > Suse > Debian > Gentoo > Arch (since 2008).
Next machine will probably be debian, if any. Might stay with the work macbook.
Oh fuck of with this bullshit. This is why linux is not on more PCs, this distro elitism.
Itβs a meme sub though
Plateau of Sustainability.
Started on Storm Linux, went to Slackware, and then Ubuntu. Did my time in the Arch Valley of Despair, along with a little Manjaro. Even tried Debian for a bit. Went openSUSE for a few years and then moved to Fedora last year and stuck there since.
Been in the Valley of Despair (Gentoo) for twenty years.
I think I like it here.
Ubuntu: they tell you its easy, but in fact is a huge pain in the ass and breaks. Last two installs for projects I was working on were broken out of the box.
I remember trying Ubuntu 4 and wondering what the fuss was about. It IS the despair. Nice fonts and colors though.
why is manjaro there twice? it's a horrible experience no one in their right mind would return to
βMaybe I was the problem?β
they managed to make arch less stable, never update their ssl cert, and every installation slowly falls apart until it's unusable... sure, I'm the problem
You are, by installing it in the first place.
Debian is love. Debian is life.
Why in the world is Fedora peak enlightenment. Any well run, simple, community run distro is peak enlightenment.
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.
Mint, and I'll stay with mint. Perhaps I'm not a good Linux user material, but I just want something that works and doesn't get into the way. You know: a reliable, unobtrusive operating system.
i'm on NixOS
...and I've been on NixOS for mount stupid, valley of despair and, perhaps, the plateau of sustainability
Meh, I'm relatively experienced and just use Ubuntu
That's because you use your computer and it's not part of your personality. I'm reasonably well versed in Linux and I've used Pop for years.
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.
I want to see a graph where X ranges from "ambitious" to "I'm so tired", and Mint is at the end. That's where I'm at.
This probably outs me as an old fart, but my first computer experiences were with assembly and BASIC intepreters, then things like COBOL, Fortran, and Pascal.
I remember when Bill Gates got his panties in a wad over people sharing MS BASIC and always tried to steer clear of M$ products from then on, although I did have the common misfortune of having to use Windows in several work environments throughout my career. Luckily, the last I ever had to touch as an admin/user was Windows 7.
My personal desktop OS history is as follows:
Solaris -> OpenBSD -> Slackware -> Debian -> SuSE -> Mandrake -> Gentoo -> Redhat -> Fedora -> Sidux -> Arch -> OpenSUSE -> Mint.
I stick with Mint because I don't want to spend my time tinkering on the OS, and it makes helping all the noobs/non-techies I have convinced to switch to Linux over the years that much easier. This is well over a hundred at this point, and you know who most of them come to when they have a problem. With Mint, they seldom have any issues.
The years I spent tinkering taught me a lot, especially on the rolling OSes, but these days I appreciate having a system that just works reliably, so I can spend my time tinkering on my own projects instead. I have VMs for other OSes as needed anyways.
Now you damn kids get off my lawn!
So apparently I go from "knowing nothing" to "guru" and back daily.
I don't really care about others but please avoid Manjaro they had some shady finances and apparently don't manage their certs correctly