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”
Yeah it’s pretty obvious in this sub who is a hobbyist and who actually deploys or develops on Linux. Yeah I’ve distrohopped and built from scratch and all that great stuff, but at the end of the day it’s hard to beat “noob” distros for initial deployability. Then you can obviously customize whatever you want from there.
Eh, as much as there’s obviously folks who use certain distros for the fun of it, the vast majority of distros get created to cover a specific use-case. If you have that use-case, then deploying the respective distro brings you so much closer to your target setup than the easy installation of a noob distro could save you time.
I also have to say, many stereotypical noob distros make extremely conservative choices, which makes them harder or scarier to use in various ways, like for example not having filesystem rollback. I cannot imagine going back to that, specifically because I have shit to do.