By age 40, a Linux user stops trying to install Arch on a toaster just to prove they can.

[fulddamppaahelespektret@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft Honesty, you don't have to be 40 for that to be the case. I switched to Linux to avoid the headaches of Windows, why add headaches to Linux?

[m3t00@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft

seemed like a challenge at the time. other fish to fry now.

[kittylyst@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft I was there by age 30. I got a Mac for personal use and RHEL for work.

[lopta@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft Tried Debian on a couple of PCs but important things didn't work and I couldn't get help so I switched to Lubuntu for my son's PC.

[sgtsilas@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft lol I’m pushing 50, can attest.

[michaelcoyote@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft

It pretty much exactly happened like this.. Mint user from the early days of Mint.

[dykexis@app.wafrn.net]

#I-feel-this-in-my-bones. #I-use-arch-btw

[expiredtoken@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft I can totally relate, but by approaching 50. This is why Debian logo is a whirl: you can't escape from it 😅.

First contact with Debian 30 years ago, and still in love. Event considering switching back to Debian on my laptop.

[fynnnd@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft I am 23 and somewhat there. I do not use Debian, as I have newer hardware that needs newer Mesa and I will be honest I do want newer Mesa as well

But because I want stable I went with OpenSUSE Slowroll. Fedora 43 is the worst fedora I used so far. (40 and 41 were great). v4l2loopback just decided to break sometimes, so I had to test updates in a VM before updating. So I decided I couldn't be asked and switched to Slowroll once I made sure my software runs on it

[remboo@mastodon.social]

@nixCraft
Had been using Arch for the past ~5 years and hadn't had any issues apart of some minor ones.