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”

  • regedit@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    Why are all my Linux distros on the first parts of the line???

    Also, I love openSUSE. But then I started playing around and installing other distros to test them and can’t get openSUSE to install. No matter how I try to install it, soon as I select to install, it gives me some out of memory error followed by a kernel crash. I’m just a registry hive with big dreams of a better OS!

  • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’m at the stage where I can’t decide whether the Debian logo reminds me more of the Sega Dreamcast or Lawry’s seasoned salt.

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Arch. After every update I check what broke. And then discover things I forgot to check.

    I am still not sure if it’s already safe to upgrade VirtualBox and iio-sensor-proxy, but I am too lazy to just downgrade them yet again.

    So I just…

    IgnorePkg   = iio-sensor-proxy # Issues in Wayland after suspend
IgnorePkg   = virtualbox virtualbox-host-modules-lts virtualbox-host-dkms virtualbox-guest-iso # Segfault in 7.2.x, reverted to 7.1.8 - see sys-management-log.txt entry 2025-08-29

    If you’re curious about the log entries:

    2025-07-06:
        downgraded iio-sensor-proxy to 3.6-1 as 3.7 caused issues after suspending
        added iio-sensor-proxy to IgnorePkg in /etc/pacman.conf

2025-08-29:
        downgraded virtualbox packages to 7.1.8 as 7.2.x was broken (segfault)
        installed linux-lts-headers as the downgraded virtualbox suddenly wanted that
        removed and reinstalled related packages a couple of times (virtualbox-host-modules-lts, virtualbox-host-modules-arch, virtualbox-host-dkms), as well as switching between linux-lts and linux. Hopefully that didn't create any brand new funny business.
        I want to die
        added IgnorePkg   = virtualbox virtualbox-host-modules-lts virtualbox-host-dkms virtualbox-guest-iso to /etc/pacman.conf

    I recommend writing some documentation about your system. My Manjaro install became a total unknown mess after a while. I know I had to create some symlinks at some point to fix something, something something custom “XDG_CONFIG_HOME” dir with separate theme to un-break Cisco Packet Tracer on dark theme, edited startup script for Packet Tracer.
    On one Ubuntu VM I edited a bunch of config files that I didn’t remember so it was just don’t touch it while it works.

    But hey, I feel better after knowing that during high school our internet was down for weeks because something broke on main proxy server and nobody had documentation for the 2 decades old backup server, including the password, so it just ended up running in a “don’t touch it” mode, except that it also limited download speed on unknown PCs (based on MAC) to something like 32Kbps, which after 20 years meant nearly any PC so the solution was to copy MACs from basically ewaste.

    Anyway… write documentation for what you do.

    • daq@lemmy.sdf.org
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      2 months ago

      This chart doesn’t imply there’s anything wrong with your position. Low confidence and low competence = choosing OS that implements a ton of guardrails to prevent users it’s designed for from fucking up too hard. Nothing wrong with that even if you choose to do that forever.

    • favoredponcho@lemmy.zip
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      2 months ago

      Just wanna run an OS that works and doesn’t require reading documentation because I have a life and a real job

    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I used to love Ubuntu, but Canonical has become monstrously evil and I would feel filthy supporting them. Fedora is reigning champion of “it just works” these days, as far as I’m concerned. They take money from IBM, but are still a community project.

    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 months ago

      That’s basically me

      Starter on xubuntu, used arch for a couple years, got fed up by the system babysitting, now back again on (x|k)ubuntu

  • Matriks404@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I was using Ubuntu and Linux Mint more than a decade ago, then I switched to Debian, so I guess I skipped most of this curve, lol.