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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
Where all my cachyOS homes at?
"Almost bricks their machine" lol
It's not an iphone, breaking the boot sequence won't brick it. But sure, go ahead, lecture everyone else...
If you delete /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/* you can brick your motherboard. If it doesnβt have a recovery mode of some kind then it will be permanently bricked.
Kubuntu on my desktop, Debian on my server, postmarketOS on my phone. Where do I fit?
The only distro I've ever used is arch.
I hopped around until I found Arch, and it has been rock solid, first time an OS has lasted ten years without needing a reinstall. Windows has never lasted more than two years without shitting itself.
30 years of using Linux and I think this chart is whack. RPM based distros run by enterpises are the worst. I was happier with Slackware than Fedora. π€£ I only use those when work forces me too and after the CentOS and SLES fiascos - F that noise. I'll only recommend debian for work servers unless there are STIG/FedRAMP security requirements and then it's begrudgingly over to Ubuntu.
When work isn't in the way: EndeavourOS on my desktop, Debian on my servers, and debian/alpine for my containers or better yet; golang and scratch.
I started from Ubuntu. Now I use Mint.
& then people return to PopOS, ubuntu, LinuxMint & Debian.
This. Iβve gone βround the Cape of Distros and found myself reinstalling Linux Mint on all of my older computers because it just fucking WORKS without complaint or issue.
Using Fedora on my newer laptop, but for a distro that you donβt have to think about at all and just USE, Mint is hard to beat.
Yep, 20 years later I'm running kubuntu again, excited for kde OS though.
Plus the actual knowledgable linux gurus ARE ON Linuxmint, PopOS, debian etc...
I like to think I'm the right-most Fedora, but some days I'm for sure the other Fedora.
LMDE π
This is pure rage bait.
Been using Debian for like 3 years now. No intent of distro hopping.
Anybody who calls Linux "GNU/Linux" is rightfully at the bottom of both axes
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
Sadly I dont have this Copypasta where someone explains to an Arch purist why his Distros is just Linux.
I've bricked my installation just by logging into root in openSUSE. I am not touching this shit again. I love my arch
I ve been running SUSE for 3years now, it never broke; when I wqs unhappy with an update O rolles back. This is the chilliest distro in my opinion after trying Mint(2 years) and Debian (2years)
Idk, maybe? It was a real experience like this:
I install system
I have a screen that prompts me to login either as a root or as a user.
I login as a root just because I was to install a lot of software.
I have a black screen and the forums recommend me installing the system again.
It was waaaay before you started using Linux, maybe 10 years ago?
Where nixos?
between Gentoo and Arch, but so far down the y-axis it clipped off the chart.
t. masochistic NixOS user
Or it comes as a second low with an even higher peak at the end.
Canonical: snap snap snap snap snap snap snap snap snap
What's the issue with snaps? I'm still on Ubuntu ans abkut to switch to Debian, but for me its pretty chill atm because I don't have to worry about updates or security. I know about the terminal aliases, which could be disclosed better, but it's not that big of a deal to me. I thought it's pretty cool to have a "store" that's curated so I don't have to worry about security, since I use Linux casually.
Iβll just repost this repost of my personal experience then:
Hereβs my answer to this same question from an old thread on Reddit:
My Ubuntu system always reserved a whopping 20% of my 32GB ram for no reason and I never bothered to know why. Later I uninstalled snapd because of boot time issues and guess what happened? Only 1.5 GB used after a fresh boot.
I had like 4 different JetBrains IDEs installed via snap with each totalling around 2GB of disk space. While removing snapd I discovered it kept back 2-3 previous versions of every package on your disk.
Uninstalling this bloat was the best thing I did to my ubuntu system. It was suddenly light as a feather and way more responsive like I just did a fresh system install.
Some time later I was installing something from apt and Ubuntu tried to install it from snap, thus sneakily installing snapd in the process. Looking for a solution, I felt like I was looking up how to disable Windows updates or some other shit.
I had a moment of clarity and wondered why the fuck did I have to put up with this kinda bullshit on Linux. I wiped that drive clean and switched to Fedora.
Edit: and thereβs also flatpak which-despite being awful in some ways-is better than snap in every conceivable way.
Dang I think I ahve multiple personality disorder then! I use Arch, Debian and Bazzite. I feel all stretched out now!
I'm at the Kali Linux peak but at least I'm smart enough to know that I don't have the capability to do the social engineering aspect so I'm just gonna backtrack to Ubuntu and tie myself to the terminal and actually learn Linux.
The "return to Ubuntu" logo is Feren OS. Which distro do you choose for your return to Ubuntu?
Mint... :)
I had thought of going to Fedora next but I ask myself why !
I am so sick of seeing this ridiculous diagram being labeled the "Dunning-Kruger effect". Go read the actual 1999 paper they wrote. The key takeaway is that the lowest quartile of people tend to overestimate their own performance, and the top quartile underestimate theirs. It doesn't posit anything like this graph, and this is just an ironic example of ignorance.
And second, I am so sick of seeing these ridiculous distro comparisons. Stop with this elitism, even if done humorously. People of all experience levels can be found using different distros, and they all have unique advantages, disadvantages, and communities built around them. Don't shame the great effort that people put into maintaining and developing distros, repositories, and packages. A noob can use Arch, and a master can use Ubuntu. Use what appeals to you, and be happy in knowing you can experiment or stick to anything. This is the beauty of FOSS and the Linux ecosystem; it's a great place for both tinkerers as well as those who want familiarity. There is no one true way.
There's a thing across Africa called "joking cousins." Unlike genuine bad-blood tension between different ethnic groups that can often exist, it's a jovial sibling rivalry style of thing. I've always seen the distro thing a bit like that. It gets tiring, but it's sort of hard-coded into human nature to joke about slight differences when we're all in the same tribe.
Though, this graph is silly for the reasons you mention - I think that might be intentional as part of the joke. It's stupid, so clearly OP is daily driving Kali and hacked the central database to add the distro logos. I dunno, maybe I'm explaining it away too easily.
So you're saying the graph maker is in the lower quartile?
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.
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.