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”
Almost there. I’m on AlmaLinux Atomic Desktop GNOME. It’s 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, it’s pretty nice. No more distro-hopping for me.
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. 🤷♂️
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
Mint on my desktop and Pop on my laptop…so that part seems accurate for me.
I skipped that whole initial peak: started on Ubuntu 20 years ago, moved to kubuntu after unity and moved to tumbleweed 6 months ago.
I know nothing, and I’m keeping it that way
My system of choice is Mint, btw
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…
Redhat 35 years ago
… Was 3 years before it was created.
30, right?
Yep, right
I am at least at step 2
If you replace the Manjaro icons with POP OS icons that’s where I am at in the middle just after the valley - also running dual booting along with EOS.
I am though at the point of my distro hopping that I want to try out vanilla Debian.
My initial POP install from almost 3 years ago I still the samme on my Lenovo P51 laptop. Pretty happy about it.
One thing is clear. I love Linux and will never go back, coming from 14 years of MacOS, and windows before that.
Mint, and I’ll stay with mint. Perhaps I’m not a good Linux user material, but I just want something that works and doesn’t get into the way. You know: a reliable, unobtrusive operating system.
Same here, played around, but mint keeps pulling me back in. 10+ years going strong
Mint is fine. If you love it, there’s no reason to leave. Personally, I’m a fan of KDE and I strongly dislike the retro-Windows feel of Cinnamon so I settled on Fedora after Mint dumped its KDE edition.
And there’s no shame in that! Use whatever works for you and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
There is SO MUCH shame in that, the pitiful noob wont even learn to RTFM, and then I’ll have no way to feel superior to them as I dip my beard into my off brand morning cereal #frostedfakes
Using mint doesn’t mean you’re bad at Linux using arch doesn’t mean you’re good at it.
Mint is the start and the end for a lot of people for good reason.
Same here. I started with mint 10 years ago, fucked around and came back to it.
Not a Dev, but I work in tech, so it does most of the things I want and can tinker with nascent projects without blowing my foot off.
Mint is just perfectly fine, don’t listen to the naysayers.
As the old observation goes, novices use something like Mint because it’s there, and it works; intermediate users use something like Arch because they want the control to tweak things in the greatest depths; experts use something like Mint because it’s there, and it works.
I like it because when I have an issue, the ones for Ubuntu and Debian also work.
Fedora Silverblue. My version of “mount stupid” (or “valley of despair”) probably.
why is there a Facebook distro twice in here?
I run Fedora in the Valley of Despair.
I don’t really care about others but please avoid Manjaro they had some shady finances and apparently don’t manage their certs correctly
This is pretty accurate, but I skipped MX and only recently took a look at it. Why is it there on the line? So far it seems like the perfect Distro to customize and lockdown for old people low on tech literacy to use.
Kubuntu wins.
