I use Debian and Kali funnily enough. But then again im studying cysec.

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.

Ahhh. Put NixOS and VoidLinux at the end

Facebook OS

Lol. My main PC is Nobora (Fedora fork). My kids laptop is tumbleweed and I'm setting up an HTPC with bazzite.

So...two Fedora, 1 OpenSUSE.

Guess I know where I place on this graph.

Went from Ubuntu, Mint, Manjaro, Garuda, Kubuntu, Bazzite, now CachyOS. Cachy has been wonderful for all my needs

Garuda has - apart from their theming - a pretty decent setup

Mandrake > Suse > Debian > Gentoo > Arch (since 2008).

Next machine will probably be debian, if any. Might stay with the work macbook.

Debian, since etch. Also, not corpo owned since birth.

"Almost bricks their machine" lol

It's not an iphone, breaking the boot sequence won't brick it. But sure, go ahead, lecture everyone else...

Put Bazzite alongside mint. I just want to game!

A couple of weeks in, and I'm probably exactly where my chosen distro (Pop OS) is.

I will never go back to ubuntu, begrudgingly or not

After running arch for a long time, I just installed the sway community edition of endeavoros on all my machines. It works well, while allowing me to use tiling without having a ton of configuration time.

Arch. After every update I check what broke. And then discover things I forgot to check.

I am still not sure if it's already safe to upgrade VirtualBox and iio-sensor-proxy, but I am too lazy to just downgrade them yet again.

So I just...

IgnorePkg   = iio-sensor-proxy # Issues in Wayland after suspend
IgnorePkg   = virtualbox virtualbox-host-modules-lts virtualbox-host-dkms virtualbox-guest-iso # Segfault in 7.2.x, reverted to 7.1.8 - see sys-management-log.txt entry 2025-08-29

If you're curious about the log entries:

2025-07-06:
        downgraded iio-sensor-proxy to 3.6-1 as 3.7 caused issues after suspending
        added iio-sensor-proxy to IgnorePkg in /etc/pacman.conf

2025-08-29:
        downgraded virtualbox packages to 7.1.8 as 7.2.x was broken (segfault)
        installed linux-lts-headers as the downgraded virtualbox suddenly wanted that
        removed and reinstalled related packages a couple of times (virtualbox-host-modules-lts, virtualbox-host-modules-arch, virtualbox-host-dkms), as well as switching between linux-lts and linux. Hopefully that didn't create any brand new funny business.
        I want to die
        added IgnorePkg   = virtualbox virtualbox-host-modules-lts virtualbox-host-dkms virtualbox-guest-iso to /etc/pacman.conf

I recommend writing some documentation about your system. My Manjaro install became a total unknown mess after a while. I know I had to create some symlinks at some point to fix something, something something custom "XDG_CONFIG_HOME" dir with separate theme to un-break Cisco Packet Tracer on dark theme, edited startup script for Packet Tracer.
On one Ubuntu VM I edited a bunch of config files that I didn't remember so it was just don't touch it while it works.

But hey, I feel better after knowing that during high school our internet was down for weeks because something broke on main proxy server and nobody had documentation for the 2 decades old backup server, including the password, so it just ended up running in a "don't touch it" mode, except that it also limited download speed on unknown PCs (based on MAC) to something like 32Kbps, which after 20 years meant nearly any PC so the solution was to copy MACs from basically ewaste.

Anyway... write documentation for what you do.

I did my first ever Linux install on a new build last year. I chose Mint, and the process was very smooth with only a few minor bumps getting up to date drivers for my newish AMD GPU. Since then I’ve grown increasingly annoyed by how limited GNOME applications are in general while also gaining increasing respect for the amount of functionality packed into KDE applications. So I’ve been shopping around for a KDE distribution. Fedora and openSUSE keep coming up, and I think I’ll be trying openSUSE soon. So I guess I’ll be skipping from the bottom left all the way to the top right.

Using Debian since around Ham/Slink.. what are all these other icons?

Fedora Silverblue. My version of "mount stupid" (or "valley of despair") probably.

When I started most of those weren't even around...

I've fallen down the rabbit hole of a lot of Debian based distro's. But I eventually settled on Ubuntu for my desktops and Debian stable for my servers. Because I like some mainstream support and also like to follow the KISS principle.

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..

I use Fedora and openSUSE but I’m not sure if this graph is taking the piss.

Fedora atomic I'm galactic mirror levels of plateau

This is about my distro hopping journey. (kinda freaky honestly) Skipping the Red Hat CD's from compusa and some other fun times over the past 20 years ago or so. -LMDE is my keep going back to distro if I need it to just get out of the way, but have more creature comforts than vanilla debian. Cinnamon is great, it's kde without the issues for me. The driver manager is excellent and just everything from the mint utilities, themes, and polish are lovely. -MX/void/antix...I've never had the patience to learn not systemd. These are rad, I love the older school window managers and the light weight indie vibe. Maybe I'll stop being lazy and keep screwing with them in vm's and actually learn other init's.
-Manjaro, I wanted to love you so fucking bad, I tried to more than twice and you were a massive disappointment each time. (if it's working for you, cool. But you should really just look at EndeavourOS/Cachy OS, you'll have a way better time)
-Did the Arch from scratch thing. Just to do it. btw, I ran Arch.
-Endeavour/CachyOS are amazing and you'll have a good time for the most part. More complete experience than doing it yourself with much less effort.
-Fedora, ohh fedora. We've wanted to love you forever and ever. Going back to running linux as a Daily driver a few years ago, when I re-visited fedora it was exactly as this picture describes. Ironically, I just installed fedora, replacing cachyos last night. I spent the time to research and translate my arch notes into fedora and so far I'm pretty happy. Bit more fiddling out of the box than the derivative distros obviously. Gaming performance is what I expected once we got settled in and I haven't run into any show stoppers yet.

It really doesn't matter what distro you run. As long as you can install and run the software you need, and interact with it in a way that makes since to you, then have fun. It's your computer.

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

Lol openSuse → Mint → Manjaro→ Garuda so regressing idc

Devuan. After bsds.

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

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Ubuntu: they tell you its easy, but in fact is a huge pain in the ass and breaks. Last two installs for projects I was working on were broken out of the box.

I remember trying Ubuntu 4 and wondering what the fuss was about. It IS the despair. Nice fonts and colors though.