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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 βthe plateau of sustainabilityβ
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I went directly from ubuntu to arch, and then fedora. My curve was like a 1st order system, without that confidence overshoot. However, I don't feel like competent today, neither I have confidence in my skills.
Started with slackware, moved to RHL, worked on OL while suffering SuSE for UL and moved to RHEL.
The only intersect between me and 33 years of Linux is the darkest times groveling through the over-engineered frailty of SuSE while working on UL.
None of the rest even have a mention here
Nice chart?.~
I mean I primarily use arch and would confidently call myself an actual expert. I do use debian for servers tho. So maybe I'm nearing the slope of enlightenment?
Gentoo but free from despair
I only despair if I CAN'T compile
I've been in arch for like +2 years, I update every 3 weeks if I feel like it, it just works. If it doesn't I update and it again just works. If the update breaks anything (never happened) I have backups of the last 5 updates and the last 5 days via brtfs.
Idk, i can't believe people crash their PC unless they do stupid stuff. And if you do stupid stuff, the distro doesn't matter. I started in Ubuntu/debian and managed to brick both of those several times. Then went back to windows until I went to arch after my CS major and learning to not do stupid shit, and zero problems since.
I was using Ubuntu and Linux Mint more than a decade ago, then I switched to Debian, so I guess I skipped most of this curve, lol.
Kubuntu on my desktop, Debian on my server, postmarketOS on my phone. Where do I fit?
I abandoned SuSE about a decade ago. There were more than enough reasons to do so. I would not put it anywhere close to "competence".
Ive only been using linux for a few months and still dont feel confident that I know what im doing except when the gui can do a thing intuitively, so probably that beginning stage, except the distro Ive been using (ZorinOS) isnt on here. I think its based on Ubuntu tho so maybe that covers it idk. Been thinking about trying a different distro to see if its any better but reinstalling all my stuff again sounds like a hassle so I might just stick with the setup I have for awhile longer.
Rolling releases for life.
Yeah, they somehow added peak stability in rolling releases, what a golden age of not having to do the chores of an upgrade!
I have Mint on my laptop, manage Ubuntu Servers at work, run Debian on my home servers, have a working LFS build on my old pc, but use Windows on my main desktop. Where am I on the chart?
Out of curiosity, where on this curve lies "20k lines of Nix config"? (Asking for a friend π)
Open me SUSE gang ftw!
But let's just all be dapper tuxedo fiends! <3
(Ngl tho, for myself at my advanced millennial old age & jaded heart/brainhole I would only ever consider the three on the right for my desktop, and Debian ofc for servers/VMs)
Used Debian growing up, and now I've recently moved to Fedora the last couple years because I need the new flashy GNOME GUI. Yes, my younger self was more mature.
uuuuh I'm all over that curve. Never had Pop! Manjaro, Kali, MX or Gentoo or whatever that birdy is. Every other Distro: yeah and not in that curves arrangement.
Kubuntu wins.
The response to this needsneeds the Jedi bell curve where it starts with mint and ends with mint.. 'mint just works'
Half asleep. Facebook is peak enlightenment? Wtf?
Slightly more awake. Oh it's Fedora, not a half baked Facebook icon.
Goes back to sleep. Small light blinking on the Debian laptop asleep next to my bed.
Im over the shop.
Started with Fedora went to Debian, then Ubuntu, back the Debian, now looking at CachyOS (arch)
Plotting a route to the peak of mount stupid, I suppose.
I've needed to change my computer within the next six months for the last five years, and the plan is to try out NixOS, because as a programmer it looks like a reasonable kind of OS, despite all the warnings to the contrary (shame it's Linux and not BSD, though... the more I learn about Linux and BSD, the more reasonable BSD looks).
I haven't significantly used Linux since I was studying over two decades ago, and I'm pretty certain the last time I set up a Linux system it was Slackware.
My plan is to read the allegedly insufficient documentation and try to figure it out from there. π€·ββοΈ
Wish me luck, I'll certainly need it.
I love nix and NixOS, but yes the documentation is incredibly insufficient. I'd recommend a normal distro + the nix package manager first for a personal laptop. You have be ok occasionally taking a detour to learn how to build some random program from source in a sandbox with no networking every once in a while so it's kinda clunky as a daily use OS imo. It shines on servers though
This accurately traces my evolution...
These days I run Raspbian/Debian on my Pi servers and Fedora everywhere else
why is there a Facebook distro twice in here?
Definitly a minty
But with asperations of a suse