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superkret OP ,

I feel like this post would have been downvoted a lot less if I had altered the title to “Slackware users are the happiest!😊”

SaltyIceteaMaker ,

I am running arch and Firefox and i can confirm i am miserable.

I love it tho

delopa ,

It looks like it’s about doing real work instead of tweaking your distro 🫠

nyan ,

So of the three happiest distros, two aren’t very concerned with mainstream appeal and will carry on contentedly doing their thing while ignoring rankings like this. Sounds about right.

zod000 ,

These results seem freaking bizarre and I’m highly skeptical. You’re telling me that Slackware users, freaking SLACKWARE, are the happiest? And Firefox is the least happy? I am so much happier using Firefox than have been with Chrome for at least a decade.

superkret OP ,

The question wasn’t how happy users are with their distro, but in general. My theory is, people who have a lot of great things going on in their life (wife, kids, social life) don’t bother installing Arch.

Xyre ,

Wow, no need to make this personal. /s

zod000 ,

I wonder if people using steam decks know they are running Arch.

sandayle ,
@sandayle@lemmy.ml avatar

İgnorance is bliss

kbal ,
@kbal@fedia.io avatar

Haha silly Manjaro users, only 6.83 happy while I am 6.93 happy as a Debian user. My Linux knowledge is clearly superior to most, not counting those excessively happy freaks running Slackware.

dataprolet ,
@dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Correlation vs. causality!?

nyan ,

Exactly what I was thinking. “People who are already less happy tend to gravitate towards Firefox” is as valid a takeaway from those graphs as anything else. (Also, where are all the other browsers? I’d expect Edge and Safari, at least, to be represented, even if Vivaldi and various Firefox forks were not.)

Amphobet ,
@Amphobet@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Let’s go Pop!_OS! We’re #2! We’re #2!

ryannathans ,

Coming for #1 baby

nossaquesapao ,

That will happen after the stable release of cosmic de

simpleguy ,
@simpleguy@cuddly.space avatar

@superkret But where is nixos?

filister ,

Under 6 😜

simpleguy ,
@simpleguy@cuddly.space avatar

@filister Above 7.5 and in right side of graph (not in picture) 😅😂

narc0tic_bird ,

This is one of those correlation != causation things, hm?

It might be more a case of the “average” Arch user being more sensitive to small quirks/bugs or certain defaults. Arch is at least comparatively unbiased, which might be why these users pick Arch in the first place.

I would personally agree with where Arch is because I prefer a distribution that mostly works out of the box and already made a lot of the decisions for me that I don’t want to be bothered with. I do still customize quite a few elements to my (sometimes very specific) liking, but I also like that I don’t have to do anything when it comes to configuring my disk layout, or configuring zram, or install and configure fwupd or other packages that kind of just make sense to have.

But I don’t really see why Arch users can’t be as happy with their choice as I am with mine, unless the only reason they “use Arch btw” is that they think that’s unironically something to brag about (or peer pressure, but that shouldn’t be a thing I hope).

superkret OP , (edited )

This is just fun with statistics. I don’t think your Linux distro has a big impact on your overall happiness in life, but of course you can order the results by any parameter you like.
Often, it’s a third factor that influences both, in this case probably age, which influences happiness and distro choice.
Or maybe having the time and inclination to install Arch correlates with being in a bad place in your life right now.
I know I was tinkering with Linux all day when I was procrastinating and locked away in my room for days.

TimeSquirrel ,
@TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org avatar

in this case probably age

Arch: for the young'uns with some fire left in them that just discovered open source and want to stick it to M$ and show off in front of friends.

Debian: When those people grow up and start having to do actual work on their computers...

I went through that cycle over the last 25 years. Thought I was hot shit running Slackware on a ThinkPad 380 when all my friends were on Windows 98. Then I got better things to do than running configure scripts all day and tweaking the UI yet again.

Bitrot ,
@Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I installed Gentoo on an already ancient IBM Thinkpad with a Pentium 100. It had to use Debian boot floppies to kick off the installation process.

I don’t think I’d do that today.

superkret OP ,

I run Slackware because I got better things to do than configure my system.
The installation was a bit more involved than Debian cause you have to set up grub and install flatpak yourself, but then it just sits there, works and never really changes, which is nice.
It’s designed to not surprise you and let you do with it whatever you want, including nothing.

RiikkaTheIcePrincess ,
@RiikkaTheIcePrincess@pawb.social avatar

having the time and inclination to install Arch correlates with being in a bad place in your life right now.

True for me. I’m using Arch because I don’t have a system that can run Gentoo ;P

Actually I’ve oscillated between the two for many years. Every few years I switch to the other one and enjoy it for a few. … Only, now I’m stuck on a laptop that would melt if I tried to put Gentoo on it v.v I hope some day I will have a real computer again v.v Among other things 😅 😞

GolfNovemberUniform ,
@GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml avatar

Even though most people don’t agree with the stats, I think it makes sense because Arch users are never satisfied with their setup. It could cause many of them to choose an average number.

MajorHavoc ,

The real data point here is that Skackware users are happy.

I suspect it’s because they’ve mastered the art of not giving a fuck.

superkret OP ,

Yeah, that’s pretty spot on.

Engywuck ,

That’s why I use Arch but avoid Firefox. Balance is the key.

FatLegTed ,
@FatLegTed@piefed.social avatar

What would you recommend instead of Firefox?

Engywuck ,

I’m done recommending stuff, because my use case is not necessarily your use case. I can only tell you that Brave is the sweet spot for me, at the moment.

FatLegTed ,
@FatLegTed@piefed.social avatar

I get what you mean, we all have different requirements, didn't expect Brave, though. It's getting a lot of flak lately.

Thanks anyway; -)

TheGrandNagus ,

I’m immensely sceptical of anything that comes from Lunduke.

I don’t really know what happened to him but he went kinda nuts.

pH3ra ,
@pH3ra@lemmy.ml avatar

Yeah, he was already on a weird path but after Covid he went down really hard.
I hope he will seek help and get better

SexualPolytope ,
@SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Nicco Loves Linux made a pretty interesting video on him a month-ish ago. You might enjoy it if you’ve known Lunduke since when he was still nice.

Edit: Link to the video

TheGrandNagus ,

This seemed interesting to me, so I prepared a cup of tea, sat down to watch, then quickly realised I’ve already seen this before, oops 😅

Thanks for the link regardless, I’m sure others are seeing it for the first time

smackjack ,

I used to enjoy listening to him on YouTube simply because he didn’t yell in his videos like every other YouTuber. He had a bit of a Bob Ross vibe to him, but then he went off the deep end.

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