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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 “the plateau of sustainability”
Not a graph of the Dunning-Kruget Effect. It's actually a reverse of the uncanny valley chart. This is the Dunning-Kruger effect chart:
Which is, btw, no real effect but just autocorrelation:
https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-kruger-effect-is-autocorrelation/
I think it's the gartner hype cycle, which usually uses the same labels as the meme
Once you know Debian you know the Truth. All other distros are heresy and must be punished.
Praise be to Debian.
Our distro, who art in RAM. Debian be thy name. Thy processes come. Thy will be done, on local as it is in the cloud. Give us this day our daily resources, and forgive us our distro hopping, as we forgive those who distro hop against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from software patents and copyrights. For thine is the processes of power and glory, for ever and ever, Amen.
Started with Ubuntu, happy where I'm at 🖕🏻
I used to love Ubuntu, but Canonical has become monstrously evil and I would feel filthy supporting them. Fedora is reigning champion of “it just works” these days, as far as I’m concerned. They take money from IBM, but are still a community project.
I run Fedora in the Valley of Despair.
Linux Mint and haven't done anything else for over a year.
I’ve started with Debian and I’ve settled with Debian, have had no need or ambition to distro hop.
I'm using Ubuntu. Please be kind
You are awesome for using Linux. Any Linux. That’s a fact
Swap Debian with Fedora and we're solid. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
I'm at the 2nd Fedora stage but I feel like I skipped too many steps to get there.
I love how Fedora is on here in two different places. I only take a small amount of offense at Pop_OS being so far to the left. It’s decent, even if Cosmic is still a work in progress.
I keep coming back to Fedora, though. It just works.
I use Debian and Kali funnily enough. But then again im studying cysec.
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.
Gravity brought me back to Arch from Fedora.
Pretty sure my journey looked something like:
So I think the graph is actually pretty reflective of my own experience, aside from some of the specific distro choices during my peak ignorance phase, and obviously I ended up at NixOS which isn't even on here.
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?
20+ years in, I just use the tool I know will get the job done.
LMDE on the laptops. Arch on the media/gaming rig OpenBSD on the writing machine.
Somewhere just past the "trauma induced return to ubuntu"
God damn that chart is accurate though.
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
listen, i just want to play my games on my computer. i have limited knowledge of linux, i just host ragnarok online servers on my ubuntu mini computer, which was not a big ask in complexity. i don’t want to be a hacker, i just want to play delta force with my friend, and escape the windows ecosystem, so why all the hate?