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[–] 142 points 3 months ago (26 children)

Both. desktop is arch based, server is Debian.

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  • [–] 69 points 3 months ago (10 children)
  • [–] 39 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Are you waiting for an invitation?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    That's all it takes to be a distro slut!?

    What the heck am I then?

    %brl list -v
    artix
    bedrock
    ceres -> devuan-ceres
    devuan -> devuan-ceres
    devuan-ceres
    devuan-ceres-new
    devuan-chimaera
    devuan-testing -> devuan-chimaera
    devuan-unstable -> devuan-ceres
    exherbo
    fartix
    fentoo
    fexherbo
    garyos
    gentoo
    gentoostudio
    goblin
    gs -> gentoostudio
    hijacked -> gentoo
    init -> gentoo
    jentoo
    kentoo
    kentwo
    local -> gentoostudio
    marklar
    oasis
    pclinuxos
    space
    suckless
    tentoo
    tudio -> gentoostudio
    ubuntu
    void
    void-kde
    

    And that's just one of my computers.

    [... it's starting to make sense, thinking about one thing I made, I called wminizer]

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Actually, looking at that list again, I see I've neglected upgrading on that computer for longer than I realised... chimaera as testing? *checks site*, yeah that's "Chimaera 4.0 has moved to oldoldstable status.". That's like 4 versions old. XD

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    This is the way! Everything is based on Arch, Debian or Fedora anyway so you might as well stick to what is well known and supported.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    angry Gentoo and NixOS noises

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    well known and supported πŸ€ͺ

    From my understanding NixOS and Gentoo is "support it yourself". I haven't tried either of them so I could be completely wrong about that.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    It's pretty much the same thing as everywhere, you have a bunch of lovely people who package and test things, nothing too weird. What you are describing is LFS.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    I was under the impression that you had to compile everything yourself on Gentoo and in Nix that you have to mess with a config to do everything and anything.

    Maybe I should try them both to see what the fuzz is about.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Speaking about Gentoo, you don't "have to" compile everything, but let's just say it's strongly encouraged. Most of the compilation is automated though, think AUR on steroids. If you don't want to touch anything, you can go with defaults for all the software and you'll get basically what you get on any other distro.

    The thing is, though, if you are not being a little funny with your software, why the hell are you running Gentoo? So, it's entirely optional, but it's the main reason one would use Gentoo, otherwise you get a stock standard system with stupidly long updates.

    I can't speak for Nix, though, I haven't touched it myself, but from what I know from those around me running it, it's pretty much the same thing, unless you want something cool, you don't have to suffer.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Okey thank you so much for the information! I can see the appeal. More freedom and customization. I am all for it.

    But for my use cases I think Arch is enough. It strikes a nice balance with official packages and the AUR and I love that you get to choose all of the packages you want to have installed.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    How is Nix with software support these days?

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    My wife uses Debian, but I love her anyway. ❀️

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    Debian in the kitchen and Arch in the bedroom

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Debian in the kitchen

    You only buy pre-made food?
    That's where Gentoo belongs, or LFS if you don't like following recipes.

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  • [–] 43 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    She's a Hannah Montana girl.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    So... Debian then? Hannah Montana Linux has historically been a kubuntu reskin

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    There's a Hannah Montana Linux? Wild.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    spoilerRPMs are better than DEBs

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  • [–] 31 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    "Arch or Debian?"

    "TempleOS, you heathen!"

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    What happens when a zealot meets a more zealous zealot

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    "Zealot" is relative to where you currently are. Mint -> Debian -> Arch -> FreeBSD -> OpenBSD -> Plan 9 -> TempleOS

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Then straight back to Mint! Full circle, bell curve meme style.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    That's actually what I've seen a lot! After a few years of tinkering with your system, the idea of something stable and polished is very appealing, so you can focus on getting things done.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    I run Arch on my personal machine and Debian on my server and honestly Debian gives me more issues.

    It doesn't like zfs and Nvidia drivers are always a fight. Debian is still good though if all you want to run is a web server forever.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Linus would be out... He uses Fedora

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Of course he is. No woman can resist a guy who uses Fedora

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    She went for him in late 1993:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds

    Linus Torvalds is married to Tove Torvalds (nΓ©eΒ Monni), a six-time Finnish national karate champion, whom he met in late 1993. He was running introductory computer laboratory exercises for students and instructed the course attendees to send him an e-mail as a test, to which Tove responded with an e-mail asking for a date.

    Fedora won't have been around.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_Linux

    Fedora Linux[10] is a Linux distribution developed by the Fedora Project. It was originally developed in 2003 as a continuation of the Red Hat Linux project.

    It looks like there were Linux distributions at the time, but they were very early:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution

    Early distributions included:

    • Torvalds' "Boot-Root" images, from v0.95a onwards "Root" was maintained by Jim Winstead Jr., the aforementioned disk image pair with the kernel and the absolute minimal tools to get started (0.10: 4 November 1991)[12][13][14][15]

    • MCC Interim Linux (3 March 1992)[16]

    • TAMU Linux, based on MCC with simpler installation and X11 (14 July 1992)[17]

    • Softlanding Linux System (SLS) which included the X Window System and was the most comprehensive distribution for a short time (15 August 1992)[18]

    • H.J. Lu's "bootable rootdisks" (23 September 1992),[19][20] and "Linux Base System" (5 October 1992)[21][22]

    • Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X, a commercial distribution (alpha: 8 December 1992)

    • The two oldest, still active distribution projects started in 1993. The SLS distribution was not well maintained, so in July 1993 a new SLS-based distribution, Slackware, was released by Patrick Volkerding.[23] Also dissatisfied with SLS, Ian Murdock set to create a free distribution by founding Debian in August 1993, with first public BETA released in January 1994 and first stable version in June 1996.[24][25]

    I think that there are two possible takeaways from this:

    • Not clear what distro was used

    if any


    but if it was, it won't have been a presently existing one. It's possible that he was just rolling his own setup, not using a distro at all.

    • Linus's date with Tove derived from an email exchange. What ninja chicks look for in a guy is possibly an email client, not a Linux distribution at all. It sounds like Linus was probably using Pine at the time (though someone could go dig up mail headers from old emails to check).
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  • [–] 24 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Hence why so many of us are gay for each other.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    "Arch or Debian"

    "Slackware"

    "Marry me"

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago

    Her: it depends on who's asking and their usecase

    • Pls marry me (pls)
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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I would answer debian, but I want her to say arch.

    I want my girlfriend to be smarter than me ok!?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Whenever I hear Debian, I always imagine a newb OS called Nubian and damn that'd slap as a name.

    All text would be in Papyrus font.

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  • [–] 46 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    She's just baffled that anyone who knows those two distributions could be so dense as to whittle down the vast infinite sea of possible options to just two incredibly boring ones. She would have cried next if he hadn't done it.

    Also, OpenSUSE.

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    SOLD!

    God that was a glorious OS.

    I was in sales around the time in between 2.1 and 4. Win 3 was the current and you could hardly multitask anything that wasn't idle.

    I found out you could open a music video 9 times and tile it and it just worked (a little slow)

    I was all wtf are we even selling Windows, this is amazing.

    Then win95 hit, and it could do the same time.

    Microsoft had us put out a table with win95, I ran that exact demo with the Edie Brickell video from the install CD and copies flew off the floor.

    Funny thing, not like a single person there would ever do that, but that's all they needed to see

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)
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    Debian for work, arch for home

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