• TimeSquirrel
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    306 days ago

    There are only three. Debian-based, Redhat/Fedora-based, and then the rest nobody cares about…

      • Rob T Firefly
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        6 days ago

        Me too! I love my Steam Deck.

      • @[email protected]
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        66 days ago

        Unless you’ve worn the sackcloth and ashes of Slack, don’t even at me and my son…

        The flash backs to config files. Sooo many config files everywhere. But tarball are Yum!

        • @Grassgrowz
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          156 days ago

          how is it toxic? Nonsense… just a silly phrase, nothing more.

          • @[email protected]
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            35 days ago

            Its like a platitude but it’s not even well-meaning.

            I’m pretty sure my next metal band name is going to be called ‘death by platitudes’ (I’m kidding, but I trust you get the idea…)

            • @Grassgrowz
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              25 days ago

              Cool, i learned a new word thanks to you!

              The phrase is quite the beaten horse at this point, overused and pointless, that i agree with. I think its been overused in part to highlight how silly it is, making the people who use it unironically look like absolute dorks.

              Its a little similar to how in Germany, theres a new synonym for cannabis, called ‘Bubatz’. Its origins are unclear, it sounds super silly and has been instrumentalized in the decriminalisation of cannabis. Many people have strong reactions when they hear that word, which in turn motivates other people to keep using that word. It boils down to people wanting to rile up other people for no reason!

          • @[email protected]
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            06 days ago

            the first 10,000 times yeah I can get behind the silly view. The next 90,000 times, it just becomes this tired useless phrase uttered mindlessly to the point that you question the well being of the arch users who utter it. That’s what I mean by toxic. I consider my own sanity for using arch every time I hear this phrase.

    • @[email protected]
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      Here’s a picture of the linux distro family tree:

      There’s Debian, the distro.

      There’s Redhat/Fedora, which is commercial,

      there’s gentoo, where on installation, everything is compiled from source.

      There is slackware, mostly for historical purposes (it was the first distro),

      there’s arch for people who want to feel they’re better than others tinkerers,

      there is openSUSE, which is like redhat but german.

      • @[email protected]
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        25 days ago

        Slackware is the oldest distribution which is still active. I remember Yggdrasil came before it, and I’m looking it up, I see that Slackware was based on the earlier SLS.

      • @[email protected]
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        5 days ago

        What’s with nexenta changing colour in between?
        Did it change ownership right before going down?

        Same for beafanatix, which changes the line colour right after the starting dot.