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Will we all be fucked or is there a Linus 2?

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[–] [email protected] 117 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A number of candidates will create their own forks and there will be a long Game of Thrones style war between different factions. After couple of weeks each distro will choose the fork they will make the default one and people will split into warring factions. After that we will enter a nuclear winter style period lasting couple of years during which 90% of post on Lemmy will be just shitposting the rival forks. After a decade or two of backstabbing, dirty politics and other drama new dictator will be selected and all will be back to normal.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

So like systemd but ten times more dramatic.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

"The Lannisters send their commits"

he stabs him