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”

  • tatterdemalion@programming.dev
    6·
    10 days ago

    Pretty sure my journey looked something like:

    1. Ubuntu for a while
    2. A furious bout of hopping experiments: Debian, ElementaryOS, Crunchbang, MX Linux, Fedora
    3. Arch for a bit, but it was too much struggle
    4. Ubuntu for a while, embracing the “vanilla” lifestyle
    5. Manjaro for a while. It seemed to solve my previous issues with vanilla Arch.
    6. EndeavourOS, basically a better Manjaro.
    7. NixOS, which had a significant learning curve but ultimately gives me the most control and repeatability for all of my machine configs. Still daily driving this on my desktop, router, and some web servers.
    8. Tried out Fedora Atomic on my old laptop out of curiosity. Installing packages was ultra slow. Workflows were too annoying.

    So I think the graph is actually pretty reflective of my own experience, aside from some of the specific distro choices during my peak ignorance phase, and obviously I ended up at NixOS which isn’t even on here.