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Newbie: Hi I just want a distro to go shopping and for family tasks.
Mechanic: You want a racing car. Lift the hood and I’ll show you how to operate all the adjustments. Racing cars need lots of tuning and youll need wide tyres too.
Newbie: Can’t I just drive to the shops?
Mechanic: But you need to learn under the hood first. That’s what Linux is all about.
Newbie: there is also no room for shopping in this racing car.
Mechanic: there is if it’s just text files. Don’t bother with all that jpeg and binary bloat.
Newbie: You know, as much as I hate Windows, either I didn’t need a mechanic, or got one who didn’t insist open the hood to operate it.
I installed Debian Linux for several computer-illiterate old ladies. They never had to look under the hood. They are very happy with it.
Kind of you to assume Arch Linux is going to tell you what the outcome is going to look like :D
Debian is more like a honda accord or toyota prius.
Reliable, and only real car guys know they’re cool.
Also the development department lets you borrow the current new generation prototype if you want and suddenly it’s all current tech.
Reliable, and only real car guys know they’re cool.
Civic, then, or Corolla
Civic, prius, yaris, corolla, accord (basically 90% f japanese cars) can be fit in this category
Gentoo:
More like LFS
I want that one:
How is the distro called?
Now we’re just missing Gentoo and Linux From Scratch
My eleven year old laptop is running Kubuntu. I think it might be a Camry (absent the insanely dominant popularity).
Mor like gentoo or lfs… Arch nowadays is foolproof
Debian must be the 1999 Toyota Corolla
I daily drive Debian on a couple of thirteen year old laptops. This is exactly right and I’m damn happy about it.
Me too. Rock solid, sane and lightning.
Debian is also one of the most secure distributions in terms of user control and security against vulnerabilities, since it is the same OS that runs most of the servers in the world - and therefore gets very quick and reliable security updates.
which is the joke.
TempleOS.
I wonder if the job requirements for that role are really strict, or really relaxed.
Like, “you must have 10+ years experience cycling, live in the Vatican, be a Catholic, and know CQC to a deadly degree”… or… “be Nunzio’s neighbours boy and be willing to wear a dress.”
Which one is GNU Guix?
Guix is enthusiastic, principled, lean, very reliable, it is rolling release, completely defined and automatically built from source, but with cached binary standard packages. You have something like Python’s virtual environments in a terminal/shell, but with any distro package, and you can go back to any old version.
You also have to pray that your wifi works if using the default libre kernel. I’d liken it to a VW Beetle with a V12 engine swapped in to get it to run
Fedora
Proxmox?
Which would make this ESXI?
Especially since it’s on its way out.
BedrockLinux?
???Or probably more accurately one of these BYOVs:
I think you do not know what BedrockLinux is.
Still wrong bedrock.
Next you’ll be showing me a block of
Shit, you’re right!
You confused fedora with RHEL (before 6)
No, I’m just old 😢
Or maybe yes, I’m just old idk 😭
I’m guessing Fedora is boring but reliable?
Fedora is the cutting edge consumer release of RedHat, so I wouldn’t call it either boring or reliable
That was my recollection of it, but apparently times have changed. Seems like Fedora and Debian should be swapped then, I never thought of Debian as fancy, but it is reliable.
Makes sense why I like arch then because I dream of being able to have the time and money to build a car
You wouldn’t download a car.
Damn, I might need to hop to Kali
Arch is kinda more like looking at a catalogue of parts.
Endevour is the same catalogue of parts, but with a flier inserted with a “recommmended loadout” where you can just check some boxes and get whatever it was you wanted, but the doors there to sawzall the trunk off and attach a cargo box if you want.
Gentoo is just a pile of steel and aluminum beams, a few drums of oil, a cow, and a note that reads “Good luck.”
That’s lfs. Gentoo is a kit car like the Blakley Bearcat.
Edit: I’m gonna go read Gary Paulsen books now
I was just about to write Linux From Scratch
In my experience, Arch (with pacman at least) is like clipping lego bricks together. Like “Oh, a wanna do this? Best get that”.
Yeah, I moved over from Ubuntu after desnapping my system got too irritating.
Its legobricky indeed
It’s kinda fun in that sense, like “oh I wanna try this, lemmie see if it’s in the repos and it is” and then it’s a four word command at most.
