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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
Yes, I fall everywhere on the knowledge spectrum. It just depends on which niche area I'm fixating on that day.
Went from Ubuntu, Mint, Manjaro, Garuda, Kubuntu, Bazzite, now CachyOS. Cachy has been wonderful for all my needs
Full circle, back to Mint
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.
Garuda has - apart from their theming - a pretty decent setup
Linux mint for less than a month. Cut me some slack!
Manjaro with no desktop environment, only sway
I still use Kubuntu, btw.
I started out with Slackware, then Mandrake, then I went to Suse, then to Ubuntu, to Arch and then I sadly had to go back to Windows for work. But I have a SteamOS device for myself.
I'm in the PopOs stage!
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.
Isn't Endeavour just easy install arch?
Manjaro too, but with even more interference
You mean because manjaro packages are older than arch right?
My understanding is that Endevouros just uses the same repos as arch while manjaro delays the package releases for testing, so the packages you get on Endevouros are essentially the same as arch but the same can't be said of manjaro.
Nice corporate ad...
I would rather "despair" with a community based distro than using capitalistware were that graph true, however my Arch machine works perfectly fine and have no need to do so. On the other hand corporate distros...
Mandrake > Suse > Debian > Gentoo > Arch (since 2008).
Next machine will probably be debian, if any. Might stay with the work macbook.
i use nix so i'm of the chart! did not have a system break in a year even when on unstable
Debian, since etch. Also, not corpo owned since birth.
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 know nothing, and I'm keeping it that way
My system of choice is Mint, btw
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.
My arch only breaks when I (unknowingly) tell it to.
Somewhere just past the "trauma induced return to ubuntu"
God damn that chart is accurate though.
My guess before reading the comments:
"Everyone hated that."
I think for me the wave has more peaks and valleys.
I get to the last stage of good knowledge and decent confidence but then something new comes and I feel I'm ready for punishment again.
My first Valley of despair was Gentoo. 6 months of constantly compiling stuff and rarely using the computer for anything else. But a bit before that it was Fedora. In those early days, updates would continuously break my system.
In that first round I finally settled for Mint for years. After years of stable Linux Mint, I found my self with time and curious for Arch. And yes, that became the new l valley of despair. But eventually my stable instance.
But new things come and Wayland and new sound systems replaced what I had in my installation. Arch was again the valley of despair. And moved to Fedora, which is as stable as stable can be. I was traveling for the last two years so, no time to mess around.
Now back to arch trying to figure out the Wayland/Niri ecosystem. Let's see where I land.
However, in my dual boots I always have a working installation I'm happy with and another which I mess up with.
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 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.
"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...
Well I use arch for one of my computers and Debian for all my homelab servers, so I guess I'm at both minimum and near maximum confidence simultaneously.
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.......
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.
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?