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”
My guess before reading the comments:
"Everyone hated that."
Being a Debian guy for a long time, now Guix.
I am a Debian guy right now, what did Guix do to attract you away from Debian?
Yes random voice on the Internet please talk me out of my hard won respect for reliability.
"trauma induced return to Ubuntu" 😭 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 on garuda so i guess at the start on that. Already been through the valley of despair though, went back to windows and it sucked so i went right back on garuda, which has been working since.
Been in the Valley of Despair (Gentoo) for twenty years.
I think I like it here.
This is pretty accurate, but I skipped MX and only recently took a look at it. Why is it there on the line? So far it seems like the perfect Distro to customize and lockdown for old people low on tech literacy to use.
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.......
You did good, son. You did good. Rest now, you earned it
I'm using Ubuntu. Please be kind
You are awesome for using Linux. Any Linux. That’s a fact
Mint and Arch. Two lowest parts of the graph... Yeah, that tracks.
Debian. Anything to the right is lies.
I'm at the 2nd Fedora stage but I feel like I skipped too many steps to get there.
I'm at the Kubuntu stage, and don't intend on changing anytime soon!
I've been running Gentoo on my desktop for twenty years (it's survived multiple changes in hardware, even going from Intel to AMD hardware). It's fine for my laptop, too.
But my NAS/media server? KUbuntu. Easy peasy, slap it on there, update regularly, and I don't worry about it.
Me too. I love the configurability of plasma combined with the popularity of ubuntu search results if I need to fix or change something.
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.
This is quite an accurate meme. I wouldn't call myself a guru, but I'm at the openSUSE stage (Tumbleweed ftw).
It just strikes the perfect balance of the things I care about most.
I started with FreeBSD, Fedora, and Debian, and was comfortable on all three. I've run OpenSolaris and NetBSD in the past too. I experimented with Nix OS recently but decided it wasn't my style. I currently have machines with Manjaro and various Ubuntu distros, Windows and Mac OS.
Where do I fit on your scale?
Now I am intrigued. Where on that line would you place nix?
I run Fedora in the Valley of Despair.
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!
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Linux Mint and haven't done anything else for over a year.
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 followed it until kali and then i fell into the pit of despair wich is were i am now because i learnded gentoo
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.
Nix is probably offscreen to the extreme right
FIFY
Endevour to Debian to Alpine. Planning on the move to Guix when I have some free time...
Maybe one day I'll hit true neckbeard and daily Redox lol
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Ubuntu and Mint need to be repeated on the far right (the actual Sesame Street definition of "right", not Nazis)
Seriously. I feel like the people I know who know the most about computing have the least preferences for a distro.
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
If you replace the Manjaro icons with POP OS icons that’s 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.
I use Debian and Kali funnily enough. But then again im studying cysec.
So apparently I go from "knowing nothing" to "guru" and back daily.
Hint: :q!
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