
Don't forget the Gentoo crowd

Don't forget the Gentoo crowd
Meh...use what you use, don't judge others for what they use... unless it's windows, fuck those guys.
I just assume that everyone arguing over distros has been using Linux for less than 3 years. If you're an experienced user you're just happy more people joined the cult community.
yeah I've tried just about all of them and at the end of the day it really boils down to "how do you like to install your shit". a DE/WM is probably more important than the distro at this point as you're going to get similar performance no matter what you're on.
I use NixOS only because for me personally it makes dev work slightly easier than other distros. that's it really. Some people want to constantly tinker, some people just want to install and forget about it for a year and have it stay out of their way. It's all about personal taste and how you want to install stuff really. I know a guy that uses Bazzite for everything not just gaming and he loves it. it works for him. My dad uses Slackware and will never use anything else, he loves it. If I had the time I'd probably switch to Gentoo but NixOS works for me right now. Like I said the DE/WM is more important.
All that being said if you use GNOME then I'm worried for your well being. /s
Linux user for 25+ years here. I've tried 'em all. These days I just use Mint.
Same here, except on servers, where I prefer debian.
Because I'm old and tired, and I just want to install and be up and running in as short of a time as possible without dicking around.
Probably why you can sleep like a baby.
CachyOS user

Speaking as an Arch btw user, my socks match, thank you very much. How rude.
Weird. Just turned 47 and I JUST tried Debian tonight.
So far it's very good.
Get off my lawn
As a Debian user... Yes
Lemme zoom in here just a wee bit on this here whatchycallit... Meme? Oh fiddlesticks, I don't have me glasses... There they are... Oh! Hee hee haa haa you young fellers are drole.
I use Debian.
TIL I'm a geriatric baby. (LMDE)
Fairly accurate. SUSE is more like an IT guy forced to wear a suit to work that is not tailored well.
This guy is Kali Linux or Qubes/Whonix/TailsOS:

distro memes should be updated for 2026. i.e. with cachy,bazzite,steamos.
Cis straight male Arch user checking in. There's all kinds of us, everyone is welcome to wear what they like and feel what they feel.
Ask for help and help you shall have. (It'll just... it'll be someone giving you a link to a wiki page, or the wiki page, or saying "check the wiki", BUT YOU WILL BE HELPED BECAUSE THE WIKI IS GO(O)D!)
Swap Ubuntu and mint, and Suse needs to be visibly German.
Debian user. Yes.
Linux Mint as the baby makes no sense. That would actually be CachyOS or MX Linux at this point.
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I didn't interpret the age of the people matching the user of the distro. I matched the person in the graphic as the perceived maturity of the project itself... not the user. This is why I say to me Linux Mint doesn't make sense as the baby... MX Linux and CachyOS have been adopted more recently than before.
As a Debian user. I'll take it. Could be worse, could be anyone of the others.
Hey I'm not that old!

I've been on TuxedoOS for a while. Everything has worked so well I've managed to quell my distro hopping for a couple years now.
Me, running CachyOS, and eschewing the socks:

More like

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Feels like maybe that represents SUSE but...not OpenSUSE. Tumbleweed is legit and the community is super chill and dope.
yeah I feel personally attacked lmao
I use OpenSuse, Fedora, and Arch.
This meme is too accurate
Does being a Linux Mint Debian Edition user make me middle-aged?
I have limited experience here, but can confirm that being a sleeping baby is quite pleasant.
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