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    How it feels being a linux geek: (Why yes, I do run Mint, BTW.) (lemmy.world)
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    [–] swag_money@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    we need that bell curve meme with mint at both ends

    [–] ikidd@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    I started my bellcurve with Redhat in the 90s, Arch in the teens and I'm back at Redhat (Fedora).

    [–] bluewing@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    You started in the 90's and you didn't don the sackcloth and ashes of Slack? At least for a little bit? Ah, the joys of writing config files!

    [–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    I did for a couple years. It was progressive and exciting at the time, but was kinda left behind by everything else as other distros started up. Mandrake grabbed me for a couple years, Suse at one point. I did do a Gentoo phase since at one point I would build and sell old machines as software routers with ipchains and Gentoo was a little more structured than just compiling my own kernels to keep it lightweight and fast.

    Never used it as a desktop, but Debian has been with me since probably 2003ish, mainly as my email server but it's the base of every service I run myself. Never saw a point to using anything else, including RHEL. Any time I've tried something else, I've regretted it and gone back very quickly.

    [–] bluewing@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

    Ahhh, I knew it. A Man of Culture! Or something else, I'm not sure what though. I have threatened to get an old laptop and install slack on it for fun, but I seem to be too lazy to get it done.........

    You mirror my travels through the Linux distros. Red Hat and Mandrake, Slack, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Suse, even Mint and now Fedora yet again. I've never bothered with setting up a server though, I just don't have the need or desire.

    [–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Arch in the middle.

    [–] Luffy879@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

    Nope. Gentoo in the middle

    [–] Petter1@lemm.ee -1 points 1 month ago

    As if anyone likes to go to an ancient kernel on free will after living on snapshots of mainline for some time..

    [–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    You mean Ubuntu at both ends?

    [–] swag_money@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    nope

    [–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Oh, I see. You'll get there.

    [–] swag_money@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    like I'll end up on Ubuntu? that's my end-game distro? what makes you think that?

    [–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 month ago

    I'm rooting for you to get ahead in the bell curve.