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”

  • BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org
    25·
    2 days ago

    I’ve been using Linux since you created a boot floppy by using dd on the kernel. I use Ubuntu because I just want something that works, is stable in the LTS sense of the word, and I don’t have to futz with. I’ve heard enough about Mint now that I’ll probably switch over to it when I build my next machine in several years.

    • acockworkorange@mander.xyz
      1·
      2 days ago

      Same here, except I switched to Mint a couple years ago. You won’t be disappointed. And if you’re sanguine about waiting until you get a new machine, just go with LMDE.

    • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de
      5·
      2 days ago

      I’ve been using Linux since you created a boot floppy by using dd on the kernel

      Wait, is that not how you do it anymore? I swear, I just went through trialing a few more distros, and I dded like crazy.

      • BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org
        9·
        2 days ago

        You might have been using dd to burn an ISO image onto a USB stick or some such, but sincerely doubt that you were writing just the kernel to the first sector of a 3.5" floppy disk and then booting off of it, while it found your ISA hard drive.