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”
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?
Been in the Valley of Despair (Gentoo) for twenty years.
I think I like it here.
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.
Not a single comment about Kali that I can pick a fight with?? So disappointed rn
Been using Arch + KDE Plasma since 2021 with very few issues. Now I have a job as a support engineer for a Linux software company.
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.
Damn I jumped right from Pop_OS to Endeavour, then plunged into Arch before running back crying to Endeavour...
I skipped that whole initial peak: started on Ubuntu 20 years ago, moved to kubuntu after unity and moved to tumbleweed 6 months ago.
Endeavour
I went from Ubuntu to Mint to Debian and, now, Guix; so…I dunno.
I feel like Arch can accompany you throughout the graph if you want.
Went straight from ubuntu to fedora so I guess I skipped the whole ride.
30 years of using Linux and I think this chart is whack. RPM based distros run by enterpises are the worst. I was happier with Slackware than Fedora. 🤣 I only use those when work forces me too and after the CentOS and SLES fiascos - F that noise. I'll only recommend debian for work servers unless there are STIG/FedRAMP security requirements and then it's begrudgingly over to Ubuntu.
When work isn't in the way: EndeavourOS on my desktop, Debian on my servers, and debian/alpine for my containers or better yet; golang and scratch.
I run Fedora in the Valley of Despair.
Where nixos?
between Gentoo and Arch, but so far down the y-axis it clipped off the chart.
t. masochistic NixOS user
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.
Linux Mint and haven't done anything else for over a year.
I use Debian and Kali funnily enough. But then again im studying cysec.
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.
Hint: :q!
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