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”
Using Debian since around Ham/Slink… what are all these other icons?
Peasants
spoiler
/j
Gravity brought me back to Arch from Fedora.
I want to see a graph where X ranges from “ambitious” to “I’m so tired”, and Mint is at the end. That’s where I’m at.
Same. Mint was at the start too, though.
tried a few distros before mint because i thought it was less cool or whatever, but then it was the only one i could get working. every few months i try something else and come crying back…
The response to this needsneeds the Jedi bell curve where it starts with mint and ends with mint… ‘mint just works’
I use opensuse tumbleweed
There are several of us!!
Yeah!! I use KDE plasma :3
I use it within a distrobox. I love it
It’s the one i’ll go for once I have energy to switch from Debian.
Not that I have many things against Debian, but the install it once is the thing attracting me. Yeah… changing a word in my sources.list is hard!
I chose Tumbleweed for my first desktop Linux install a couple of months ago. Only had some minor issues so far (like missing codecs).
Although I recently tried to build a Kwin plugin, and even though I figured out the build dependencies, it didn’t show up as expected, not sure what’s going on there.
For me it was Mandrake -> Debian -> Mint -> MX -> Debian
So nothing like that graph.
I still miss Mandrake
Hello fellow late 90’s/early 00’s Mandrake enjoyer!
Another Mandrake user off and on user back then. Was my first Linux, mainly because the install was very easy to do. Since it was based on Red Hat, I guess I started at the right end of the curve and worked my way back to Ubuntu.
Started at mount stupid, went to know nothing and am now stuck on valley of dispair. Also actually bricked my MB.
why is manjaro there twice? it’s a horrible experience no one in their right mind would return to
Fedora is also there twice.
This is perfectly normal.
It also works with a Gaussian: (Noob) haha Fedora go brrr -> (angry advanced) nooo you must use Arch/Nix/Gentoo/Slackware -> (Linus Torvalds) haha Fedora go brrr
Fedora fucked up my PC way more times in a year than Gentoo did in 3.
I’m not leaving Gentoo.
I’ve updated fedora releases for like 10 years with zero issues, even went from one laptop to the other and dd’d three times to new SSDs without reinstalling.
I think it may be you who fucked up your PC.
It was nvidia drivers mostly.
And it was 12 years ago.
Yeah I had lots of problems with Winmodems on Slackware 20 years ago, definitely a bad distro too!
I switched to Ubuntu then and has no issues since.
So yeah.
Manjaro is a tempting option when you want Arch without being competent enough to confidently operate Arch.
Been there before. Had it for over a year for the first time, but quickly noped out on the second try.
“Maybe I was the problem?”
they managed to make arch less stable, never update their ssl cert, and every installation slowly falls apart until it’s unusable… sure, I’m the problem
You are, by installing it in the first place.
My system I installed 10 years ago is unusuable now?
“I donated money to them so I am going to use it.”
Although not much, just 20 EUR. Not sure how much the bundled Windows license costs, but surely Microsoft has other ways to earn from spyware.
Nope. The developers are notorious. Look it up bud.
I love my Manjaro. I always come back to it… but I may not be in my right mind.
To be fair, it’s OK. Just you might want to check out EndeavourOS when you need to format your PC again.
I have both and I like them almost equally.
I think I’ve seen this story before. :P
Everything is in the “almost” 😅
I love that !
Look, don’t judge me, but manjaro has been the only distro to just work. I haven’t been fucked by nvidia drivers that I know of, I haven’t had any glaring issues… I’m not saying I disagree with the criticisms, but as a ‘just use the fucking computer’ distro, it’s great.
Manjaro is awesome. The hate is not deserved and as you said, everything just works perfectly.
Manjaro’s fine. Most of their problems were years ago. If it works for you, don’t listen to the mob.
As someone who ran Manjaro as my first Linux for 1,5 years, it’s a breeze to set up and everything just works…until it doesn’t.
What screws it is that eventually, over time, something goes wrong. Something breaks here and there, new bugs appear, and without Arch proficiency that is not really expected of a Manjaro user, it’s next to impossible to track it down. So, eventually one has to reinstall.
I’ve been a strong Manjaro proponent back in the day, but now I see its flaws, unfortunately. I wish it could be a great option, though.
Lol, that does make me wonder. I think I changed the boot process from silent to visible at one point, because it wouldn’t boot if the silent option was enabled.
That’s…very odd :D
Especially if it was GRUB. This thing normally just works on any distro, even the less stable ones.
Yeah, it was grub. I changed it to see if I could find where it was hanging in the boot process, but as soon as I made the change it would simply boot without issue.
Put Bazzite alongside mint. I just want to game!
Out of curiosity, where on this curve is “20k lines of Nix config”? (Asking for a friend 👀)
I just spent 2 hrs last night in my Kali vm, trying to find an exploit on a web server. It was running Laravel 11.30 and vulnerable to a URL query to change the env to dev. So yeah peak of mt stupid is accurate
The key is you installed Kali in a VM. The true peak is installing it on bare metal and then using it as a normal computer.
Kali purple on trunk laptop comes in handy but I can’t say it’s used often.
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.
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.
Uses Fedora
S M U G
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.
