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”

  • maxwells_daemon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    4 hours ago

    “Almost bricks their machine” lol

    It’s not an iphone, breaking the boot sequence won’t brick it. But sure, go ahead, lecture everyone else…

  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    2·
    6 hours ago

    Kubuntu on my desktop, Debian on my server, postmarketOS on my phone. Where do I fit?

    • Krompus@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 hours ago

      I hopped around until I found Arch, and it has been rock solid, first time an OS has lasted ten years without needing a reinstall. Windows has never lasted more than two years without shitting itself.

  • Routhinator@startrek.websiteEnglish
    4·
    8 hours ago

    30 years of using Linux and I think this chart is whack. RPM based distros run by enterpises are the worst. I was happier with Slackware than Fedora. 🤣 I only use those when work forces me too and after the CentOS and SLES fiascos - F that noise. I’ll only recommend debian for work servers unless there are STIG/FedRAMP security requirements and then it’s begrudgingly over to Ubuntu.

    When work isn’t in the way: EndeavourOS on my desktop, Debian on my servers, and debian/alpine for my containers or better yet; golang and scratch.

    • Fives@discuss.online
      5·
      10 hours ago

      This. I’ve gone ‘round the Cape of Distros and found myself reinstalling Linux Mint on all of my older computers because it just fucking WORKS without complaint or issue.

      Using Fedora on my newer laptop, but for a distro that you don’t have to think about at all and just USE, Mint is hard to beat.

  • Mwa@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    1·
    8 hours ago

    so am at CachyOS (i will say for EndeavourOS cause its also based on Arch,installed on my gaming rig) and Debian + Armbian (on my PI5)

  • cub Gucci@lemmy.today
    2·
    12 hours ago

    I’ve bricked my installation just by logging into root in openSUSE. I am not touching this shit again. I love my arch

    • make -j8@lemmy.world
      2·
      8 hours ago

      I ve been running SUSE for 3years now, it never broke; when I wqs unhappy with an update O rolles back. This is the chilliest distro in my opinion after trying Mint(2 years) and Debian (2years)

      • cub Gucci@lemmy.today
        1·
        4 hours ago

        Idk, maybe? It was a real experience like this:

        1. I install system

        2. I have a screen that prompts me to login either as a root or as a user.

        3. I login as a root just because I was to install a lot of software.

        4. I have a black screen and the forums recommend me installing the system again.

        It was waaaay before you started using Linux, maybe 10 years ago?

      • Tortellinius@lemmy.world
        2·
        11 hours ago

        What’s the issue with snaps? I’m still on Ubuntu ans abkut to switch to Debian, but for me its pretty chill atm because I don’t have to worry about updates or security. I know about the terminal aliases, which could be disclosed better, but it’s not that big of a deal to me. I thought it’s pretty cool to have a “store” that’s curated so I don’t have to worry about security, since I use Linux casually.

        • voodooattack@lemmy.worldOP
          3·
          3 hours ago

          I’ll just repost this repost of my personal experience then:

          Here’s my answer to this same question from an old thread on Reddit:

          My Ubuntu system always reserved a whopping 20% of my 32GB ram for no reason and I never bothered to know why. Later I uninstalled snapd because of boot time issues and guess what happened? Only 1.5 GB used after a fresh boot.

          I had like 4 different JetBrains IDEs installed via snap with each totalling around 2GB of disk space. While removing snapd I discovered it kept back 2-3 previous versions of every package on your disk.

          Uninstalling this bloat was the best thing I did to my ubuntu system. It was suddenly light as a feather and way more responsive like I just did a fresh system install.

          Some time later I was installing something from apt and Ubuntu tried to install it from snap, thus sneakily installing snapd in the process. Looking for a solution, I felt like I was looking up how to disable Windows updates or some other shit.

          I had a moment of clarity and wondered why the fuck did I have to put up with this kinda bullshit on Linux. I wiped that drive clean and switched to Fedora.

          Edit: and there’s also flatpak which-despite being awful in some ways-is better than snap in every conceivable way.

        • missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de
          1·
          57 minutes ago

          yeah! there’s a punishing learning curve but it’s sooo frikkin powerful once you get it. for my NixOS config on WSL2, I have it cross-compile age-plugin-yubikey for Windows, then stuff the (absolute) path in a wrapper script to use agenix with passage as a git-credential-helper storage, all of which gets set up using home-manager as my default git config. and it all just gets automatically built and configured when I nixos-rebuild switch, so I can sync it to my other machines.

          unfortunately I have no idea how it works anymore lol. that’s the problem, it’s so resilient I forget how to change it! but I can’t imagine doing that in any other Linux distro.