Some perspective on distro usage among developers
Some perspective on distro usage among developers
Personal use numbers:
- Ubuntu: 27.7%
- Debian: 9.8%
- Other Linux: 8.4%
- Arch: 8%
- Red Hat: 2.3%
- Fedora: 4.8%
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Makes sense. Ubuntu just works and is popular. Debian is the same, some people are just more conservative.
Can confirm. I have used one or the other exclusively for 20 years. Mostly on laptops. And these days with just a tiling window manager and terminal.
It just works.
Exactly. And here I am, after 2 days of trying to bend NixOS to my will, and I gave up. Tomorrow, I'm going back to Fedora, where everything worked perfectly, because I fell for "Shiny thing sindrome", or the "grass is greener on the other side" stuff. Should have never doubted it. After 2 years of full time Linux and a lot of distrohopping, one would think I'd have known better.
NixOS is a nightmare. It works then you want to do something that can be done on another distro and you can’t. Same just went to silver blue at least acts like a regular distro.
I've been trying the same with Bazzite and ublue. Also gave it 2 days, and then left it as well, right before doing that with NixOS.