I assume Hannah Montana Linux is off the chart to the right

why is manjaro there twice? it's a horrible experience no one in their right mind would return to

Starting fights today are we?

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.

Meh, I'm relatively experienced and just use Ubuntu

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.

Ragebait

i'm on NixOS

...and I've been on NixOS for mount stupid, valley of despair and, perhaps, the plateau of sustainability

This is funnier if you have mint or Ubuntu on both extreme ends.

Servers = Debian
Desktop/Laptop = Arch

My guess before reading the comments:

"Everyone hated that."

FIFY

Oh fuck of with this bullshit. This is why linux is not on more PCs, this distro elitism.

The Fedora propaganda is getting annoying.

This probably outs me as an old fart, but my first computer experiences were with assembly and BASIC intepreters, then things like COBOL, Fortran, and Pascal.

I remember when Bill Gates got his panties in a wad over people sharing MS BASIC and always tried to steer clear of M$ products from then on, although I did have the common misfortune of having to use Windows in several work environments throughout my career. Luckily, the last I ever had to touch as an admin/user was Windows 7.

My personal desktop OS history is as follows:

Solaris -> OpenBSD -> Slackware -> Debian -> SuSE -> Mandrake -> Gentoo -> Redhat -> Fedora -> Sidux -> Arch -> OpenSUSE -> Mint.

I stick with Mint because I don't want to spend my time tinkering on the OS, and it makes helping all the noobs/non-techies I have convinced to switch to Linux over the years that much easier. This is well over a hundred at this point, and you know who most of them come to when they have a problem. With Mint, they seldom have any issues.

The years I spent tinkering taught me a lot, especially on the rolling OSes, but these days I appreciate having a system that just works reliably, so I can spend my time tinkering on my own projects instead. I have VMs for other OSes as needed anyways.

Now you damn kids get off my lawn!

I don't really care about others but please avoid Manjaro they had some shady finances and apparently don't manage their certs correctly

I am so sick of seeing this ridiculous diagram being labeled the "Dunning-Kruger effect". Go read the actual 1999 paper they wrote. The key takeaway is that the lowest quartile of people tend to overestimate their own performance, and the top quartile underestimate theirs. It doesn't posit anything like this graph, and this is just an ironic example of ignorance.

And second, I am so sick of seeing these ridiculous distro comparisons. Stop with this elitism, even if done humorously. People of all experience levels can be found using different distros, and they all have unique advantages, disadvantages, and communities built around them. Don't shame the great effort that people put into maintaining and developing distros, repositories, and packages. A noob can use Arch, and a master can use Ubuntu. Use what appeals to you, and be happy in knowing you can experiment or stick to anything. This is the beauty of FOSS and the Linux ecosystem; it's a great place for both tinkerers as well as those who want familiarity. There is no one true way.

Debian is love. Debian is life.

Ubuntu and Mint need to be repeated on the far right (the actual Sesame Street definition of "right", not Nazis)

I use opensuse tumbleweed

Full circle, back to Mint

Not a graph of the Dunning-Kruget Effect. It's actually a reverse of the uncanny valley chart. This is the Dunning-Kruger effect chart:

I'm gonna put this out there: If you can do Endeavour or Manjaro, you can do Arch, and Arch is in no way less stable than Tumbleweed. All you need to do is to pick btrfs and enable snapshots and then never use them.

I’ve started with Debian and I’ve settled with Debian, have had no need or ambition to distro hop.

Why in the world is Fedora peak enlightenment. Any well run, simple, community run distro is peak enlightenment.

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

Fedora on laptop, NixOS everywhere else, don’t really feel enlightened

I know nothing, and I'm keeping it that way

My system of choice is Mint, btw