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    [–] [email protected] 213 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    No time for distrowars

    ...says the guy that makes a meme shitting on users of every other distro.

    [–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    While at the same time not even using the meme format correctly.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

    I‘m 14 and this is deep, linux edition. :)

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    [–] [email protected] 100 points 1 year ago (20 children)

    Honestly what is wrong with 'just works'. If the policies behind the project and the security and privacy is all in place using this option is nothing wrong.

    For linux to grow it needs to be more 'just works'. Let the complex stuff and simple stuff be there. It's not one or the other.

    [–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Exactly.

    When I was younger, tinkering around was a hobby in itself. But today I actually used my machine and I want it to work without hassle. I don't want to think about swap partition sizes, modeset kernel parameters and that kind of stuff. I want a reliable tool.

    That's why so many devs use MacBooks. They're essentially Unix machines with a proper GUI and mostly work absolutely flawlessly.

    I've been using MacBooks for over ten years now and had exactly one crash: when the drive was failing so hard, it couldn't even spin up anymore.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

    This is exactly me. For a server it’s Linux but for everyday use/work a MacBook Pro is great. It just works. It’s great as you can fire up the command line to manage Linux servers easily. That’s how I admin my Lemmy Ansible install.

    For gaming I use Windows. It’s all about the best tool for the job.

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Why should I use Arch btw if Ubuntu does everything I need? It's not some locked down os like Windows and I can tweak it however I want

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    [–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Isn't the point of this meme for the low IQ and high IQ people to have the same preference? Any way, I'm on Linux Mint usually -_-

    [–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    Well, ubuntu is based on debian, so it is the same preference.

    quickly, escapes the comment section

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    [–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Well I can tell you why Linux does not have a higher adoption rate: toxic shit like this.

    [–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Na the biggest and main reason why Linux doesn't have a higher adoption rate (on desktop) is that it's not preinstalled on the devices you buy.

    There are obviously other factors but they are miniscule in comparison

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    [–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux.

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    [–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    How is Gentoo keeping it simple?

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

    I think the insinuation of the gigantic brain is that it's not

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    [–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    As a Mint user: What do those symbols even mean? (or: "Distro? What's a distro?")

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    [–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    Image Transcription:

    A bell curve featuring numerous wojaks and Linux distribution system icons by IQ score. From left to right they are: At the left 0.1% end of the bell curve with no IQ score labels is a boomlet wojak accompanied by Ubuntu icon and the text: WHERE START BUTTON? Between 0.1% and 14% on the left side of the bell curve, encompassing the IQ scores 55 and 70 is an NPC wojak accompanied by the Arch icon and the text: I USE ARCH BTW Between 14% on the left side of the bell curve and approximately 34% on the right side of the bell curve, encompassing the IQ scores 85, 100, and 115 is a crying Zoomer wojak accompanied by the Fedora icon and the text: JUST WORKS Between 34% and 0.1% on the right side of the bell curve, encompassing the IQ scores 130 and 145 is a big brain wojak accompanied by the Gentoo icon and the text: K.I.S.S At the right 0.1% end of the bell curve is a light brown hood wojak accompanied by the Debian icon and the text: NO TIME FOR DISTROWARS

    [I am a human, if I’ve made a mistake please let me know. Please consider providing alt-text for ease of use. Thank you. 💜]

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    [–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Quick attack users of the most popular distro before normal people start using Linux! We can't allow a good, stable and perfectly usable distro to get popular, we need to bully everyone back to windows or terrible things might happen like the year of they Linux desktop!!

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    [–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    I use Linux Mint because I like Mint Ice Cream

    I use Parrot in honour of my parrot Loba

    I use Ubuntu Mate because I've always wanted one

    I use Peppermint because it's my favourite flavor of gum

    I use Rocky Linux because he's my favourite American Hero

    I use fedora because I know it will come back in style

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    [–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This is so stupid. They're all fine.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

    Apart from your favourite distro of course!

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    [–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This was me, except I went straight from Ubuntu to Debian. At some point I wondered why I was doing all this manual maintenance. I realized that Ubuntu relies on Debian and so I switched. Haven’t looked back.

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    [–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I've been a Linux user since installing Slackware from floppy discs. These days I run Mint on my desktop/laptop and Ubuntu on servers. Does this make me weak?

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

    Installing Slackware from floppies makes you a badass

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

    If it works for you, you have find what you want :)

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    [–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Distro swapping is a rite of passage. The grass is always greener. Until you settle and stopped caring about the OS at all. Which is why I went back to Windows (7 at the time) mainly for gaming compatibility.

    Proton got me hnnng tho I'll definitely be giving either Endeavor or OpenSuse a go when I build my next computer. Rolling distro sounds like a "set it and forget it" thing and I like that.

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    [–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    NixOS: from where I am, you're indistinguishable

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    [–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Debian is for people who have shit to get done and don't care about a neon colored wallpaper, mostly don't have a wallpaper at all.

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    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Bah, all the same, Linux 6.4, Xfce 4.18, be it Debian or Arch, there is no difference except the package management...

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    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

    Kompile It yourSSelf

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

    no time for distro wars if you're too busy hunting down drivers and unbreaking everything :]

    (debian still best distro tho)

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    XFCE Debian is my perfect OS. Just does what I need and that's all. Why look anywhere else?

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    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I don't know why people hate Fedora so much and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Redhat is shitting the bed nuclear style right now. I expect Fedora is the next one on the chopping block.

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    [–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I haven't seen anyone hate Fedora until this meme.

    Now, Red Hat, which has strong ties to Fedora, is doing a lot of stupid bullshit. I actually moved to Debian due to that, not really because I think its superior (at the end of the day, all distros can do the same stuff) but because I'm getting tired with corporations

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    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

    As an Ubuntu user I feel called out. But the callout is also fair… I am conflicted. Is it a mitigating factor that it’s a headless server?

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    You should stay on Ubuntu if it work for you. This is just a meme. There is no need to feel bad and force yourself to switch just because other people think your distro is bad :)

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    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I've tried debian twice, 1st time apt-autoremove deleted half of my system literally seconds after I installed it. The 2nd time I just got tired of constantly messing with apt, dependencies and autoremove. Also the packages are just too old to be a usable desktop for me...

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    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

    Damn you. I'm even wearing my glasses rn

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Arch is Debian sid with a better package manager

    Checkmate liberals.

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    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

    I love Arch and Hyprland, but when I need to spin up some linux machine ASAP that can be used by normies I will install Linux Mint.

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