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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 β€œthe plateau of sustainability”

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    [–] ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

    20+ years in, I just use the tool I know will get the job done.

    LMDE on the laptops.
    Arch on the media/gaming rig.
    OpenBSD on the writing machine.

    [–] Focal@pawb.social 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

    I think I'm at the top of mount stupid, because I'm certainly not competent.

    I started with Linux Mint and daily drove that for a while. Really liked it too. Then I noticed that screen sharing ssssuuucked when playing games, and since Mint's Wayland didn't want to work on my machine, I decided to jump ship.

    I'm currently on Nobara (Glorious Eggroll's Fedora flavor) and.. it's just pretty easy to work with.

    Or maybe I'm at the know nothing stage, along with PopOS

    [–] fading_person@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

    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?

    [–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

    For me it was Mandrake -> Debian -> Mint -> MX -> Debian

    So nothing like that graph.

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    ironically started on fedora and debian like 20 years ago (which i hate is 2006ish instead of 1976 T_T); mostly for servers.

    now i'm on mint in my first foray into using it full time as a desktop so i know most of the cli and backend stuff and it's just getting used to the ui and desktop parts.

    I feel like nixos doesn't belong on this meme, and I'm happy it's not. While it's technically Linux, I feel like it's different enough that learning nix only teaches you a bit about Linux and a lot about nix.

    [–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

    Went straight from ubuntu to fedora so I guess I skipped the whole ride.

    [–] freijon@lemmings.world 4 points 3 days ago

    As a GURU enjoyer/maintainer, I conclude to be on the far right of that graph

    [–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

    I'm at the stage where I can't decide whether the Debian logo reminds me more of the Sega Dreamcast or Lawry's seasoned salt.

    [–] regedit@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

    Why are all my Linux distros on the first parts of the line?????

    Also, I love openSUSE. But then I started playing around and installing other distros to test them and can't get openSUSE to install. No matter how I try to install it, soon as I select to install, it gives me some out of memory error followed by a kernel crash. I'm just a registry hive with big dreams of a better OS!

    [–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

    Why is facebook the final stage?

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    [–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 6 points 3 days ago

    I went from Ubuntu to Mint to Debian and, now, Guix; so…I dunno.

    i followed it until kali and then i fell into the pit of despair wich is were i am now because i learnded gentoo

    [–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

    Somewhere just past the "trauma induced return to ubuntu"

    God damn that chart is accurate though.

    I approve this message.

    [–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago

    Where does sadistic curiosity about Slackware fit on this graph after daily driving OpenSuSE Tumbleweed?

    [–] Dequei@piefed.social 7 points 3 days ago
    [–] HouseWolf@pawb.social 7 points 3 days ago

    Damn I jumped right from Pop_OS to Endeavour, then plunged into Arch before running back crying to Endeavour...

    [–] Valmond@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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    I went from POPos to manjaro to Garuda, then went to fedora and then went to aurora but rebased to bazziteDX so for me this is REALLY accurate except for the dip

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