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[–] 218 points 3 years ago (1 child)

No time for distrowars

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

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  • [–] 102 points 3 years 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.

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  • [–] 38 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years 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.

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    [–] 74 points 3 years 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 -_-

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    [–] 66 points 3 years ago (12 children)

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

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    [–] 52 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    How is Gentoo keeping it simple?

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    [–] 45 points 3 years ago (2 children)

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

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    [–] 32 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years 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

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    [–] 30 points 3 years 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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    [–] 28 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years 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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    [–] 25 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    This is so stupid. They're all fine.

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    [–] 21 points 3 years 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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    [–] 19 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    NixOS: from where I am, you're indistinguishable

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    [–] 19 points 3 years ago (10 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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    [–] 18 points 3 years 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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    [–] 18 points 3 years ago (5 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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    [–] 18 points 3 years ago (4 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?

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    [–] 16 points 3 years ago

    Kompile It yourSSelf

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (3 children)

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

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    [–] 14 points 3 years 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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    [–] 14 points 3 years ago

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

    (debian still best distro tho)

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years 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?

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    [–] 13 points 3 years 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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    [–] 12 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Arch is Debian sid with a better package manager

    Checkmate liberals.

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    [–] 12 points 3 years ago

    Damn you. I'm even wearing my glasses rn

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    [–] 11 points 3 years ago

    I think I'm stupid as I don't get this at all. I've never used a distro that doesn't work. They all work. Some are more advanced, some are more stable, some are more polished, some even look and behave like Windows, but fundamentally they are work.

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