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Reminds me of:
Started with PopOS and stayed ever since.
That's where I am, although it's only been a few months. It's nice.
I've been at the Debian part of the graph for years!
Heyooo same
Popos is awesome.
Started with Mint and... This graph is pretty accurate. I'm on Debian.
I'm on Gentoo and I feel attacked.
Also I have no clue what SuSe is doing in the enligthenment part. I started with SuSe an thought it was cool, went back to it a few years later and realised that it was a steaming hot mess.
Really I've been running my Gentoo like a Debian, (mostly) all stable packages. It just never breaks, it keeps updating without issues year after year. The People that have issues with Gentoo are mostly having them because they try running lots of testing packages.
I tried running arch on my wifes computer and it is a mess that constantly breaks for no reason. She is on Manjaro currently and it is slightly better.
Since flatpak and Gentoo binary packages I have been floating the idea to switch her computer to a fully stable Gentoo and let her install applications through flatpak.
Tried Suse and Red Hat before Fedora existed... Also a lot of stuff that isn't on this graph, and made a system from scratch two times because of strict requirements.
No plans of moving from Debian. Why TF can one argue that those two are more productive? The only reason to use Fedora in particular is if you are stuck with it due to some hardware or contractual requirement.
Yeah I mean I probably ain't leaving debian tbh. It's just so nice.
I have been using Debian a lot in the past and now I'm on fedora. Reason I'm on fedora: got a new laptop and figured I could go Debian or try out another distribution. I installed it and didn't have any problems, a couple times I had to submit bug reports to the packaging team but not much else. It works and I never felt like I need some other system. All feels pretty similar to Debian after all, not much difference. One thing I favor over Debian is that packages are a bit more up to date: in Debian I'd often find myself backporting stuff from Sid. In fedora I don't really need workarounds to get new features in stable software. But still, that's just a minor annoyance. But still, I use a lot of very specific software in development; for normal use I really don't see much difference between the two.
I can't be assed getting off LMDE, downloaded POP with thoughts of giving it a go but found I can't be assed getting off LMDE.
i went mint, debian, opensuse, manjaro, endeavour, aeon. my hacker aspirations were tempered by permanently breaking my awesomewm configuration.
My journey was Ubuntu/Lubuntu, PeppermintOS, #!, BunsenLabs, Antergos, Arch, and now Mint. Itโs basically the bell curve meme where the guy uses the most basic one in the end.
Manjaro ๐คฎ, Poop_OS!, EndeavourOS, Fedora, CachyOS.
I think I should've started with Debian or Fedora. Those first three didn't last long but whatever, eventually it clicked with Fedora and I learned enough to try something Arch based with a better reputation again.
manjaro really is a trap.
Yeah, of course I found that out when an update inevitably broke and then learned about the incompetent developer reputation.
Excuse me. I've almost bricked several machines with Ubuntu.
Arch in the pit of despair? Not true anymore... I hope.
My friend that runs arch constantly complains about a bricked system.
I only complain about long compile times.
I mean, sure, you can brick the system if you do something stupid probably. I never did but I dont take risks.
When using arch I remember it often happened that an update would mess up something. Not all the time, but every few months it would happen that I'd have to spend a morning after the update figuring out what got messed up.
Maybe Nvidia drivers. I had that years ago too before i switched to amd graphics.
What did you have that got messed up?
Bunch of things. Indeed Nvidia drivers happened frequently, but that is something you generally expect and got used to fixing and as such it's no big deal. I remember much pain with Xorg, but also had problems with alsa, network manager, keychain and several other core systems.
Also, try losing power during some pacman transaction and have fun figuring out what exactly is preventing your system from booting up.
I had a system freeze during pacman update a few weeks ago and I couldnt get into any graphical environment anymore. It would just hang at boot.
With the help of chat gpt, I got instructions how to fix it. It took over an hour. Many system libs had 0 size all of a sudden so they couldnt load. Chat gpt got me through the process of reinstalling it all from the cache, keeping all config settings.
But that was the first time that ever happened in over ten years of arch.
Without chat gpt it would have been a full system reinstall, losing all settings, since I didnt know how to do what it suggested.
I've met Arch users who will confidently tell me untruths about Linux in general and have no idea how to even approach solving problems beyond copypasting instructions from the Arch wiki or forums.
I guess it speaks to the stability of Arch that it can attract users who have no idea what they are doing and still work. But it does also speak volumes about the image it has as an elite distro that makes you look like a Linux expert without actually being one.
The amount of people that I personally know, who i have convinced to try out linux, AND END UP CHOOSING ARCH AS THEIR FIRST DISTRO, IS TOO DAMN HIGH >:^[
Idk where these people get the idea from, I never mentioned arch to them but some how it just happens.
Help.
I think they want to learn. They wanna know their os. It's why you choose Linux unless you're like my girlfriend which just gets mint installed and stays happy on it
thats fair but knowing some of my friends, it feels more like they want to chase after prestige lol
Where does nixos fit in here
proud Debian user here :)
*Confused LMDE noises*
(The funny answer is that I'm somewhere up Mount Stupid, but if I am, it's a bit like Everest base camp and there's a nice fire going. I think I'll stay here for a while.)
I'll be there soon.
Iโm a total newbie to Linux, but why do people dislike Ubuntu?
They don't know it's a debian, but also people irrationally dislike snap and other decisions. I've been using debian, ubuntu and raspbian for gosh knows how long - I don't understand the hatred.
I've been insulted at work for using Ubuntu by a guy who was afraid to update his arch laptop.
Snaps. Snaps are the, and a good reason. Canonical has done a very poor job with them. Whether it was trying to keep control over them, the duplication of work, the performance issues etc. There's lots of reasons.
I wouldn't insult someone for using Ubuntu, like I wouldn't insult someone for using Manjaro. But I wouldn't shy away from recommending better distributions when applicable. I think most of us have been through them all over the years. It's kind of a rite of passage.
Snap is definitely what got me looking around again. I was content with Ubuntu's ubiquity and support for a pretty long time. Ironically, after switching to Bazzite everything seems much much snappier.
Yeah, with bazzite, kinoite, silverblue etc flatpak was always part of the equation. We opt into it. Canonical with snaps violated consent. They showed up and that was that. You got no choice. Had Canonical created a sub distro built on and testing these. There would have been a lot less ire. Instead like these new rust core utils. Everyone is an unpaid beta tester.
Yup snap also sucks in my experience. Often times, an app that I used snap to install ends up glitching or not working well with the desktop environment. It used to be fine just using synaptic package manager that even had a GUI. I don't get why they have to fix what want broken for me
The snap deal is the most "like totally your opinion, man" thing in the world. Snaps run just fine for me, as well as flatpaks and appimages. Everybody wants to feel some way about Ubuntu adding some shiz to their distro that the majority of us don't even pay for.
Is it their distro? Yes. Can they add whatever to it? Yeah. Do they need to ask you? No. Does it really change things for you? No.
Now, you are free to feel however you prefer - this is unquestionable. Your feelings are signal but not data, when it comes to software.
I can confidently say that I used Ubuntu (different versions even) many years ago on work computers and the Frankenstein monster it became and it breaking when updating was a real problem. I'll never do it again. Arch has it's problems but less worries managing it and updating.
The lts trap + old kernel version + plus their horrible custom patching of it + needing other ppas for some hardware to work on top of that of custom patched kernel to support whatever specific thing the laptop needed that was available on more recent kernel version + the need for some apps/tools with recent versions... Hell, all of it.
I've been using Ubuntu since 2008. Still use it just fine. I dunno what is horrible about it, everything works. Have used it on a ton of different computers. Everything has always worked on it for me. I am an old unix bearded person, and a sw eng.
I honestly don't understand the hate.
Snaps and DEs are what drove me from Ubuntu. Gnome2 was actually nice to use and unity was too Mac for me. Then came snaps and things kept breaking. The breaking point for me was going "sudo apt chromium" and it installing snap, then chromium through snap.
Oh, and I have never had a stable update experience. Every single update lead to me being dropped into a shell or TTY session without a functioning display manager. I tweak my system in many ways to develop software (many PPAs) and updates always meant going on the hunt for new ones to be able to develop again.
Now I'm at NixOS and although the community forums are a constant slugfest with nonstop drama (so I dont visit them anymore), the system has actually been stable for my entire usage period. A friend audibly gasped when I switched channels and updated. They too had never seen a smoother update experience between multiple different major versions (20.05 - > 24.05).
If all you do is develop in devcontainers, have no PPAs, dont modify your system in major ways and just are stock, yeah, pretty much any distro can be pleasant.
No devcontainers here. Don't use ppas - have not in a few years. Last ppa I used was deadsnakes like in '18. Have a bunch of de-chromed chromebooks with Ubuntu in non-stock config.
I've struggled like twice with ubuntu on old laptops that had bad ram. Everything else has been smooth and I have customized the hell out of many configs. Lots of new Thinkpads in my past
That statement that people who know that Ubuntu sucks don't know that it is a Debian derivative is incredibly unlikely
It's a badly assembled fork of Debian that doesn't have the same maintenance work and will both break sooner or later and have really large odds of not ever completely working.
Tryhard forum shit. I actually deploy software on Linux and have 20 years using it professionally. I compiled my first kernel in the 90s. Ubuntu is fine. It's easy, reliable and you can make it whatever you want.
No wonder why I'm depressed all the time.
Fedora kind of seems too corpo to be on this list.
The author obviously never used half those distros.
Kali Linux is correctly placed