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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”
I run Fedora in the Valley of Despair.
Fedora on laptop, NixOS everywhere else, don’t really feel enlightened
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.
Linux Mint and haven't done anything else for over a year.
Mint is my sustainable pleateau. I've used Kali, Zorin, Haiku, Plan 9, and ReactOS. I'm mostly satisfied with what Mint gives me, and what it doesn't. I know people don't always approve of this, but I genuinely used to like Windows. And Mint, generally, works like Windows back when it was good.
Yeah it's pretty obvious in this sub who is a hobbyist and who actually deploys or develops on Linux. Yeah I've distrohopped and built from scratch and all that great stuff, but at the end of the day it's hard to beat "noob" distros for initial deployability. Then you can obviously customize whatever you want from there.
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 just spent 2 hrs last night in my Kali vm, trying to find an exploit on a web server. It was running Laravel 11.30 and vulnerable to a URL query to change the env to dev. So yeah peak of mt stupid is accurate
The key is you installed Kali in a VM. The true peak is installing it on bare metal and then using it as a normal computer.
Almost there. I’m on AlmaLinux Atomic Desktop GNOME. It’s 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, it’s pretty nice. No more distro-hopping for me.
I use Debian and Kali funnily enough. But then again im studying cysec.
Gravity brought me back to Arch from Fedora.
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?
I'm using Ubuntu. Please be kind
You are awesome for using Linux. Any Linux. That’s a fact
I'm at the 2nd Fedora stage but I feel like I skipped too many steps to get there.
I skipped that whole initial peak: started on Ubuntu 20 years ago, moved to kubuntu after unity and moved to tumbleweed 6 months ago.
I went from Debian to Mint
although…
… now I'm thinking about switching to NixOS and it's not even there.
But then again, I feel like my confidence is lower than my competence, and I really like things that require less tinkering nowadays
I've gone backwards. When I had nothing but time, I did fedora bleeding edge. Moved to ubuntu for almost 10+ years. Moved to Linux Mint last year and debating moving back to Ubuntu.
Uses Fedora
S M U G
Started at mount stupid, went to know nothing and am now stuck on valley of dispair. Also actually bricked my MB.
Arch had been rock solid for me since 2012...
As a Qubes user, do I span the entire graph?
You're on the z axis