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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 โthe plateau of sustainabilityโ
Im over the shop.
Started with Fedora went to Debian, then Ubuntu, back the Debian, now looking at CachyOS (arch)
If you replace the Manjaro icons with POP OS icons thatโs where I am at in the middle just after the valley - also running dual booting along with EOS.
I am though at the point of my distro hopping that I want to try out vanilla Debian.
My initial POP install from almost 3 years ago I still the samme on my Lenovo P51 laptop. Pretty happy about it.
One thing is clear. I love Linux and will never go back, coming from 14 years of MacOS, and windows before that.
Plotting a route to the peak of mount stupid, I suppose.
I've needed to change my computer within the next six months for the last five years, and the plan is to try out NixOS, because as a programmer it looks like a reasonable kind of OS, despite all the warnings to the contrary (shame it's Linux and not BSD, though... the more I learn about Linux and BSD, the more reasonable BSD looks).
I haven't significantly used Linux since I was studying over two decades ago, and I'm pretty certain the last time I set up a Linux system it was Slackware.
My plan is to read the allegedly insufficient documentation and try to figure it out from there. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Wish me luck, I'll certainly need it.
The response to this needsneeds the Jedi bell curve where it starts with mint and ends with mint.. 'mint just works'
Half asleep. Facebook is peak enlightenment? Wtf?
Slightly more awake. Oh it's Fedora, not a half baked Facebook icon.
Goes back to sleep. Small light blinking on the Debian laptop asleep next to my bed.
Kubuntu wins.
uuuuh I'm all over that curve. Never had Pop! Manjaro, Kali, MX or Gentoo or whatever that birdy is. Every other Distro: yeah and not in that curves arrangement.
Used Debian growing up, and now I've recently moved to Fedora the last couple years because I need the new flashy GNOME GUI. Yes, my younger self was more mature.
I have Mint on my laptop, manage Ubuntu Servers at work, run Debian on my home servers, have a working LFS build on my old pc, but use Windows on my main desktop. Where am I on the chart?
All over it!
Out of curiosity, where on this curve lies "20k lines of Nix config"? (Asking for a friend ๐)
Ive only been using linux for a few months and still dont feel confident that I know what im doing except when the gui can do a thing intuitively, so probably that beginning stage, except the distro Ive been using (ZorinOS) isnt on here. I think its based on Ubuntu tho so maybe that covers it idk. Been thinking about trying a different distro to see if its any better but reinstalling all my stuff again sounds like a hassle so I might just stick with the setup I have for awhile longer.
It's possible to keep all your binaries and config files on a separate partition and mount them in the root directory to be used with multiple distros. I'm not sure how well this would work if you're switching to a very different distro though. I haven't tried this, so it may be a very bad idea. I know it's possible though.
I'm not at opensuse level but I already use opensuse cause opensuse default stack saves my ass a lot even if it's a bit annoying since it doesn't have everything
LFS where?
I mean, I use kubuntu but I also have installed arch and have fucked around with parts of my installation in strange ways, so probably somewhere on the slopes of mt stupid.
Guess I'm still waiting for something traumatic to get me back to kubuntu then xD
fedora the 2nd time
Rolling releases for life.