Been using Kubuntu for 7 years now, after having previously used Ubuntu, Debian and Gentoo.
Not sure if that means Kubuntu belongs on the "Plateau of Sustainability" or if I'm just permanently stuck at "trauma-induced return to Ubuntu," LOL
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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.
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I'm at the 2nd Fedora stage but I feel like I skipped too many steps to get there.
Started with Redhat 35 years ago, moved to Suse, Gentoo and then all kinds of Ubuntu. Now with Mint but will soon leave for KDE Neon.
The only constant in life is change..
Redhat 35 years ago
... Was 3 years before it was created.
30, right?
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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
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?
If I'm using Rocky 10 for my personal laptop did I stray so far off the chart?
I even have the latest Firefox and emacs running on it!
I use Fedora and openSUSE but Iβm not sure if this graph is taking the piss.
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Rare FerenOS shiny
Fedora β€οΈ
Bazzite / Tumbleweed on different machines, still Ubuntu for homeservers.
Started with slackware, moved to RHL, worked on OL while suffering SuSE for UL and moved to RHEL.
The only intersect between me and 33 years of Linux is the darkest times groveling through the over-engineered frailty of SuSE while working on UL.
None of the rest even have a mention here
Nice chart?.~
Just leaving the valley of despair, i suppose?
Lol openSuse β Mint β Manjaroβ Garuda so regressing idc
I've been in arch for like +2 years, I update every 3 weeks if I feel like it, it just works. If it doesn't I update and it again just works. If the update breaks anything (never happened) I have backups of the last 5 updates and the last 5 days via brtfs.
Idk, i can't believe people crash their PC unless they do stupid stuff. And if you do stupid stuff, the distro doesn't matter. I started in Ubuntu/debian and managed to brick both of those several times. Then went back to windows until I went to arch after my CS major and learning to not do stupid shit, and zero problems since.
I will never go back to ubuntu, begrudgingly or not
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
i followed it until kali and then i fell into the pit of despair wich is were i am now because i learnded gentoo
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!
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.
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'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.
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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'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.
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I seem to have skipped most of it.