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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
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.
Bazzite/bluefin so Fedora silverblue π
Full circle, back to Mint
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.
Not a single comment about Kali that I can pick a fight with?? So disappointed rn
Ok, let's fight.
Who the hell DDs Backtrack? It's a specialist distro for specialist tasks, why not have a netbook you use specifically for pen testing?
Facebook OS
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
Yeah, I started on Flubuntu, then hopped to Mantrix, tried out Zorblite for a while, eventually ended up on Quasarch. Thought Iβd settle there, but now Iβm deep into VortexOS with full Grindle support. Honestly, once you get used to Fluxstack and ZIMFS snapshots, thereβs really no going back.
I like your funny words magic man
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€£
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.
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.
Ahhh. Put NixOS and VoidLinux at the end
void I would put with Arch but I agree with nix
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.
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.
I still use Kubuntu, btw.
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.
Garuda has - apart from their theming - a pretty decent setup
I figure first thing I am going to do with a new OS is change how it looks to my liking anyway. What's underneath is pretty great imo - it was the only distro I tried that actually had working nvidia drivers for my laptop "out of the box". I couldn't even get it to play games with the bazzite image specifically for asus laptops with nvidia gpus. I was not smart enough to fix it.
You should try their Garuda Mokka distribution. Less theming & more work focused.
Debian, since etch. Also, not corpo owned since birth.
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.
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.
Mandrake > Suse > Debian > Gentoo > Arch (since 2008).
Next machine will probably be debian, if any. Might stay with the work macbook.
My arch only breaks when I (unknowingly) tell it to.
"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...
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.......
Debian. Anything to the right is lies.
Swap Fedora and Debian, now the chart is correct.
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.
