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

Ahhh. Put NixOS and VoidLinux at the end

Put Bazzite alongside mint. I just want to game!

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

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

I went from Tumbleweed to Garuda to Endeavour to plain Arch, so either your graph is off or me. Or both.

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

My arch only breaks when I (unknowingly) tell it to.

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.

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.

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

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

Competence

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.

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.

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

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.

Im using Debian but I’m definitely at the end of the downward path of the first spike

Devuan. After bsds.

I'm at the 2nd Fedora stage but I feel like I skipped too many steps to get there.

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

Plateau of Sustainability.

Started on Storm Linux, went to Slackware, and then Ubuntu. Did my time in the Arch Valley of Despair, along with a little Manjaro. Even tried Debian for a bit. Went openSUSE for a few years and then moved to Fedora last year and stuck there since.

I'm a tech moron, but I've been on Linux of and on since like 07ish. Full time since 2015ish. Started with Ubuntu way back when, and I've jumped around from distro to distro. I've tried Manjaro, mint, opensuse... God, I can't even tell you what else. I once installed that Miley Cyrus Linux and ran it for like a week as a gag. But from 2015 onward when I went full time I've basically just been in Fedora (including silverblue and Bazzite). I've got Ubuntu running on a mini PC I'm using to set up a server for jellyfin and a few other things. But as far as my daily driver goes, it's almost always fedora. I just fucking love it.

But bear in mind here, I'm a pretty surface level user, so what I love is actually Gnome. Lol

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

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

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.