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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 β€œthe plateau of sustainability”

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    [–] tarknassus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

    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.

    [–] NotSafeForWorld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I'm using Ubuntu. Please be kind

    [–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

    You are awesome for using Linux. Any Linux. That’s a fact

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    [–] sirico@feddit.uk 4 points 1 month ago

    Fedora atomic I'm galactic mirror levels of plateau

    [–] twinnie@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I use Fedora and openSUSE but I’m not sure if this graph is taking the piss.

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    [–] jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

    Bazzite / Tumbleweed on different machines, still Ubuntu for homeservers.

    [–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Gentoo but free from despair

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    [–] regedit@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

    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!

    [–] eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

    Just leaving the valley of despair, i suppose?

    [–] devedeset@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    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.

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    [–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

    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.

    [–] Tundra@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

    Rare FerenOS shiny

    [–] mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

    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.

    [–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

    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.

    [–] CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    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.

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    [–] deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

    Where all my cachyOS homes at?

    [–] TheGingerNut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

    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?

    [–] fading_person@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

    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.

    [–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

    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?.~

    [–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

    I will never go back to ubuntu, begrudgingly or not

    [–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

    Fedora ❀️

    [–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

    I seem to have skipped most of it.

    [–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

    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.

    [–] Seasm0ke@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

    Lol openSuse → Mint → Manjaro→ Garuda so regressing idc

    [–] chronotron@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    The only distro I've ever used is arch.

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    [–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

    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!

    [–] Lightcrater@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

    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

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