You know, the kind that insists on using Arch, despite being slightly (or more) below the skill level one should have before using it.

I’m a nightmare for any IT department and software developer. I know enough to do damage, but don’t have the patience and knowledge to wield this power. I go around editing shit in random config files in order to “temporarily fix” an issue and then forget that I ever did it, slowly turning and system I touch into a ticking time bomb. This also combined with my unique ability to seemingly break any piece of software by merely interacting with it, especially on Linux, before I even had the chance to install anything. I’ve installed and used Linux on countless devices and haven’t ever had a smooth ride, yet still I’m completely daily driving Linux at this point.

I use Arch by the way :3 (and Fedora, and Ubuntu, and Raspbian, and God knows what else)

I have no idea what I’m doing, but also not enough fear to be careful. Running Bazzite is for my own good.

I grew up on Ubuntu (started on 4.10), moved to Kubuntu soon after and that was my daily until KDE 4.0 broke everything. I tried GNOME and XFCE but nothing really clicked for me. I got a job, I hated coming home to more sysadmin shenanigans and I moved to Windows.

Finally after I heard that the Steam Deck and Proton working great, and after years of Windows doing bullshit constantly, I came back to Linux. This time Linux Mint because I’ve been told it’s easy to use and has lots of support. I had trouble with the initial setup (Nvidia drivers not working with Safe Boot enabled, it took me two weeks to figure it out) but since then everything has been super smooth.

Anyway don’t shoot me, I have kids, they love GCompris and SuperTux!

CachyOS based on Arch (btw). I’m somewhat of a noob power user and want the newest software because shiny. I’m not afraid to fuck up the install and start from scratch all over again because I’ve fucked up a dozen times already.

I installed LXQt on Termux, Kubuntu on a VM, just so I could try and let an AI agent run amock on it.

I’d say a tinkerer, somewhat of a control freak, and i like the novelty of trying more obscure things. I really liked NixOS, but i didn’t like the systemd part of it. Wanted to stick to Runit-only so went back to Void, but at this point i decided to try GNU Guix. Who knows, i might end up liking Shepherd better than Runit. I think Guix has to be the most obscure distro that i’ve played with so far. Luckily the documentation is great, cause the community is small so it might be tougher to find help from the community sometimes.

Casual AF. I’m here to get shit done, not take any shit from my OS, not pay permanent rents to run my computers*, and do things my way. Protecting my privacy, fulfilling the promise of general purpose computing, and lack of DRM are just icing on the cake.

*Totally happy to donate on the regular to the open source apps I use!

I’m the type to mess around with pipewire, break stuff, fix it, learn nothing from that and fuck it up again. I’ve got it doing what I want it to, and yet I wanna tinker around and probably mess it up again because I can’t seem to really understand the docs or configuration files.

I’m the type to have two OS (Nobara, Ubuntu) on separate disks, then decide to rip the guts out of the second one (Ubuntu) and just use the disk for data storage (without reformatting) but keep forgetting to also delete the boot partition that no longer works anyway (because none of the system directories exist anymore) but occasionally UEFI randomly decides to boot it first and ends up with a fucked up and hopelessly confused GRUB.

I’m the type to put the second disk in fstab, then unplug it and wonder why boot is having issues loading the filesystem.

This is my primary system, so I’m just barely holding back from messing with the system itself, because I know I’ll fuck up something and I’d rather still have a working system to either troubleshoot from or at least decide I’ll postpone the unfucking and play Satisfactory instead to mess up my factory there.

I’ll probably format my third disk again (currently Bazzite, which I never really fully set up to try at length) and try something new on there. Still haven’t figured out how to make my GRUB add entries for other disk, but also, I really don’t wanna touch my primary boot config.

I can’t stop messing with things I don’t properly understand, get impatient with trying to understand the Docu and just fly blind, with predictable results. I tell myself half the joy is in fixing it, because the second it works, I forget it all and get to figure it out again next time.

I’m the “incorrigible amateur” type.

I rice’d Gnome and now dont mess with my computer (I got a job :sadge:)

I’m the kind of user that spends a whole weekend to fix a driver issue for an obscure 2000s sound card, then proceeds to erase the entire process from memory to repeat it from scratch on a new system next year.

POV how it feels to ask for help with your Linux on a Linux community

I’m the kind that likes to build up a lightweight system instead of tearing down a featured one to get things where I want them to be. I also want to look like a hacker at all times because I find it funny. I don’t actually use my computer all that much right now because I’m in school so it’s basically a glorified browser that also has games, though I do some small side projects and manage a couple basic servers with it. I may have programmer socks that happen to be blue white and pink for no particular reason I just think the colors look neat

Android 16

I’ve been everywhere from a piecemeal Arch setup with a minimal desktop all the way to a Mint pleb. I’ve pretty much settled on EndeavourOS. It’s really impressed me with its dummy simple setup and OOB experience. Not to mention very few issues getting games to run even with an nVidia card.