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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
I've been working with Linux for the better part of 20 years at this point. Ubuntu is perfectly fine my time is too valuable to spend numerous hours fucking around getting shit to work properly. If that makes me an idiot then I'm happily an idiot.
I get that many people have issues with snap, SystemD or whatever else they want to throw out. I don't give a shit. You're whinging into the wind over nothing burgers.
Same here, I started with Slackware 4 and have done the recompile your kernel depending on what hardware you have quite enough thank you. I'll use whatever works with the least hassle and if that means Linux Mint on almost all my home setups, so be it.
This meme really irritates me hahahaha
This is better
Dang I think I ahve multiple personality disorder then! I use Arch, Debian and Bazzite. I feel all stretched out now!
Started at low for 6 months , then I travelled to the valley of despair.
I lost my mind and stayed there for a long time. 1 year? 3 years? who are you? who am i? (send help plz)
A traveller names Fedora rescued me. Now I am further down on that curve: Fedora silverblue.
Full circle, back to Mint
Probably the slope of enlightment.
I do still have Gentoo installed. Planned to daily drive Gentoo, and use Bazzite for gaming on the weekends, but I'm switching back to Gentoo less and less now a days, and just daily driving Bazzite now.
I've been using linux off and on for almost 20 years, though only did a full transition to linux for everything about two years ago. I use debian for the servers in my homelab and Fedora on all my other computers.
Something tells me this chart is based on an external assessment of competence/confidence not a self-assessment, because according to the chart I should be a guru, but in actuality I know nothing.
I'm great at ~~using Linux~~ reading the Arch wiki
My guess before reading the comments:
"Everyone hated that."
Bazzite/bluefin so Fedora silverblue π
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.
Yes, I fall everywhere on the knowledge spectrum. It just depends on which niche area I'm fixating on that day.
Amazing how wide the gaps can be in tech. A friend of mine is all over Windows power shell scripting of which I know next to nothing about, but he's just as stumped when he sees me writing C for embedded microcontrollers.
But people who aren't heavily into tech will just look at both of us and ask to fix their printer because we're both "good with computers". π€£
Not a single comment about Kali that I can pick a fight with?? So disappointed rn
I did my first ever Linux install on a new build last year. I chose Mint, and the process was very smooth with only a few minor bumps getting up to date drivers for my newish AMD GPU. Since then Iβve grown increasingly annoyed by how limited GNOME applications are in general while also gaining increasing respect for the amount of functionality packed into KDE applications. So Iβve been shopping around for a KDE distribution. Fedora and openSUSE keep coming up, and I think Iβll be trying openSUSE soon. So I guess Iβll be skipping from the bottom left all the way to the top right.
I used Fedora for a year or two. Had some issues. Had a USB stick laying around with the latest version Mint. So just installed that instead. Both options are good, but Mint just worked perfectly out of the box. No Nvidia driver stuff either. I don't have time to fix my OS, well.. I don't prioritise it. I know how, I just don't want to.
Ok this describes me annoyingly well. Ubuntu, then Manjaro, then Arch, and now Gentoo. Now I don't really want to go any further because I quite like this distro :p
Facebook OS
I know nothing, and I'm keeping it that way
My system of choice is Mint, btw
Right? I need the OS to work, I don't need to know all the "power user" stuff. If someone is into knowing that stuff, cool, great, enjoy, but it's not something I'm interested in or have a use for. I use my computer to get things done.
Mint also BTW.
Ahhh. Put NixOS and VoidLinux at the end
void I would put with Arch but I agree with nix
I went slackware to debian and am now at ubuntu. Give me a reason to waste my time with any of the others and I might. It wont be arch though. If want something like arch I might as well go back to slackware.
I fucking love Ubuntu. Have been on it for about 5 years now. It just works AND doesn't spy or advertise. Nobody has ever been able to convince me it gets better than that. I don't need stuff to be difficult to prove to myself I'm smart.
If I'm building a server I'll do headless CentOS because it's lockstep with RHEL. I've been working with Linux over 20 years. I know my way around and then some.
If I'm rolling a new laptop or desktop I'm doing Ubuntu for the reasons you've mentioned.
I still use Kubuntu, btw.
I've fallen down the rabbit hole of a lot of Debian based distro's. But I eventually settled on Ubuntu for my desktops and Debian stable for my servers. Because I like some mainstream support and also like to follow the KISS principle.
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...
Went from Ubuntu, Mint, Manjaro, Garuda, Kubuntu, Bazzite, now CachyOS. Cachy has been wonderful for all my needs
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.
My arch only breaks when I (unknowingly) tell it to.
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'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.......
"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...
