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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
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.
Almost there. Iโm on AlmaLinux Atomic Desktop GNOME. Itโs freaking sweet. The main thing that kept me from an ultra-stable distro for the longest time was the lack of user packages, but now with Flatpak and Brew, itโs pretty nice. No more distro-hopping for me.
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.
I fucking love Ubuntu. Have been on it for about 5 years now. It just works AND doesn't spy or advertise. Nobody has ever been able to convince me it gets better than that. I don't need stuff to be difficult to prove to myself I'm smart.
If I'm building a server I'll do headless CentOS because it's lockstep with RHEL. I've been working with Linux over 20 years. I know my way around and then some.
If I'm rolling a new laptop or desktop I'm doing Ubuntu for the reasons you've mentioned.
I'm at the 2nd Fedora stage but I feel like I skipped too many steps to get there.
Im using Debian but Iโm definitely at the end of the downward path of the first spike
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.
I use Fedora and openSUSE but Iโm not sure if this graph is taking the piss.
If I'm using Rocky 10 for my personal laptop did I stray so far off the chart?
I even have the latest Firefox and emacs running on it!
Rare FerenOS shiny
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.
Just leaving the valley of despair, i suppose?
I've been using linux off and on for almost 20 years, though only did a full transition to linux for everything about two years ago. I use debian for the servers in my homelab and Fedora on all my other computers.
Something tells me this chart is based on an external assessment of competence/confidence not a self-assessment, because according to the chart I should be a guru, but in actuality I know nothing.
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!
Lol openSuse โ Mint โ Manjaroโ Garuda so regressing idc
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
I will never go back to ubuntu, begrudgingly or not
i followed it until kali and then i fell into the pit of despair wich is were i am now because i learnded gentoo
Where all my cachyOS homes at?
I'm at the Kali Linux peak but at least I'm smart enough to know that I don't have the capability to do the social engineering aspect so I'm just gonna backtrack to Ubuntu and tie myself to the terminal and actually learn Linux.
I went Kububtu -> Pop -> Arch with Sway -> Fedora KDE -> Arch again, now with KDE. I like Arch, been using it for years now and no interest of switching.
I seem to have skipped most of it.
Started at low for 6 months , then I travelled to the valley of despair.
I lost my mind and stayed there for a long time. 1 year? 3 years? who are you? who am i? (send help plz)
A traveller names Fedora rescued me. Now I am further down on that curve: Fedora silverblue.
Bazzite / Tumbleweed on different machines, still Ubuntu for homeservers.