The distro family trees are like different pantheons.

Distros are like individual gods. Community developers are priests and end-users are the commoners who pray for blessings, good fortune, and happy lives. Priests direct the prayers of commoners to their respective gods.

There is the Debian pantheon, ancient gods of peace and stillness.

The Arch pantheon, progressive gods that bring revolution along with a bit of chaos.

The Red Hat pantheon, gods tha- wtf am I writing?

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    I like how you realized part way through that you were typing out nonsense, and decided to post it anyway lol

    Also: how high are you right now?

    • @Hule
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      Monotheism finds a way.

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      It is too bad his mental health overtook him, with proper medicine that guy could have been such a much more amazing computer science dude. Although maybe the meds would have taken away his inner insight. It amazing that singled handedly he built his own OS. It is a wacky system, but still amazing

      • @ace_garp
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        It is an incredible solo-effort, with largely simplistic features.

        As a usable OS, it’s a fever-dream curiosity.

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          Yeah, I meant amazing that he created all that while struggling with schizophrenia, I can only imageline the accomplishments if he was well.

  • @mvirts
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    We do willingly summon daemons to inhabit our magic crystals.

  • @LovableSidekick
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    Linux produces actual results. Linux hate is the religion.

    • @Agent641
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      LFS is a weird fundamentalist sect.

      Faith without works is dead

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      Of course not, they also need to pay tribute to our Lords and Saviors Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds and make reverences to our supreme god Tux.

      It’s just that they make all of that with extra steps.

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    No but there is an ideological basis for free software though it is firmly based on practical experiences dealing with the consequences of close source devices.

    Red Hat and Ubuntu are business. Debian and Arch are communities. Some of the smaller distros are basically that one guy in Nebraska.

    People promote them for various reasons. An IBM employee will have different reasons to the supporter types who latch on to a distro and mascot like it was a football team. Now football, there is a religion. Its all ritual, nothing they do has any practical use, people congregate once a week and in some parts of the world it turns violent.

    When the deb users start committing genocide on the rpm users I’ll call it a religion. Until then its just a bunch of anime convention fans arguing about their favourite isekai.

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    132 months ago

    Don’t be silly, the Linux community has never told me to hate someone just because they’re differen… Oh.

    And besides, there’s no arcane practices or secret knowledg… Oh.

    Carry on.

  • @Vikthor
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    All hail Saint Linus, the prophet of the only true kernel!

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      And saint IGNUcius of the church of emacs. May we recite our confession of faith:

      There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels.

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    102 months ago

    The Arch pantheon, progressive gods that bring revolution along with a bit of chaos.

    That’s Fedora, really, Arch did cool packaging and bailed

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      Some evenings, when a piece of code I wrote compiles on the first try and it all seems so straightforward and simple, I feel blessed by the Spirit of the Machine.

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    If this is your take after your annual Xmas Magic Mushrooms trip, you need to take more shrooms