• Mikelius@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    As a Gentoo user, I can confirm I started from sticks and rocks. I’m now in the space age though because of the customizability and performance boosts, so image is a little dated.

    • shoki@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I think I would still recommend this distro today because imho it’s very usable if you’ve never used linux before and it is in my experience very stable and compatible

      (although i use arch now btw, i would probably never recommend it as a beginner distro)

      • Kroxx@lemm.ee
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        3 months ago

        I switched to mint 2ish months ago and a friend of mine switched to fedora at the same time. Both new from windows, I have had no issues with mint but he has now switched to Debian cause he was having issues getting discord to work properly.

        OOTB experience with mint is it works, it kinda feels like cheating having a distro that works easily without tinkering. Like I don’t feel like a real Linux user haha, but I would 100% recommend it.

        The meme is very accurate imo, the text would definitely be “hello fellow linux users!” instead of youths haha!

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Having Ubuntu with the big bucks instead of Red Hat is mental, given that Canonical made 12M on 250M revenue in 2023 while Red Hat made 434M on 3.4B in 2018. I’m citing these years because that’s what’s available in Wikipedia. Red Hat is probably more profitable today under IBM. Kinda goes to show the general unawareness of the Linux corporate landscape around here. :D

    • Wilzax@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      It’s not about Arch itself being a unique choice, it’s about how Arch looks very different from user to user because they not only had the option but the requirement to install nearly everything but the Kernel themselves.

      The result is that no two Arch users end up with the same OS, just the same kernel and package manager.

      • superkret@feddit.org
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        3 months ago

        90% of Arch users run the exact same installation you get when you copy-paste the example commands from the installation guide without diving into linked pages, then add a user with default groups and install Gnome.

        • Wilzax@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          While I don’t think it’s as high as 90% of users, I admit I didn’t think about people who would subject themselves to Arch just to not take advantage of what Arch has to offer.

          (But seriously, why would anyone choose to do this when they can just install Mint)

    • _____@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I have met 3 arch users irl.

      One was a hacker man kid (unironically one of the best developers I’ve met), messy hair, hoodie but other wise a regular kid.

      One was his friend, jock kind of kid. Not necessarily good at programming but he did program and was enthusiastic about it.

      Another is a CS major, 6ft tall and fit. Not much else to say about him. He studies CS, you can infer whatever else you want.

      And obviously me (btw), not that I’ve met myself.

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    I’d prefer the “ain’t nobody got time for that” woman for Mint (and so speaking about the more hands-on distros), but I can’t say the existing image isn’t accurate.

    … not that I can say that it is accurate either. And the demographic in the Threadiverse allegedly has a heavy skew towards that picture, Mint or not, so it might be counterproductive to run a poll here.

  • Dathknight@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 months ago

    So I’m a rather large dude in a blue Shirt and an extensive Anime-Collection but I also have a sick haircut, sunglasses and underglow sneakers?

    Works for me!

    Also: I use Arch BTW.

  • overflowingmemory@links.hackliberty.orgEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Let me summarize the glory of the meme for people who do not get all the distributions references in textual form (and as a check if I get the references): The image shows the branding image of a bunch of operating systems and Linux distributions with memes … descriptions follow – left to right top to bottom:

    • Debian: Smiling old men with tea meme, since it is so standard 0815
    • Arch Linux: Overweight NPC meme in his room Anime collection in background
    • Ubuntu: Money Meme (because big Cooperation sponsors Ubuntu I guess?)
    • LFS (Linux from scratch a Distro where you build everything from scratch to learn how the linux system works): it has some Spongebob meme where Computer science P.h.ds get instructed by a wise snail who is an LFS user
    • Manjaro: guy who looks cool from the front but his ass is visible in a mirror behind him
    • Open-Suse: Chad-Meme (I guess the creator of the meme loved suse)
    • Linux-Mint: Weird guy who wants to be cool with a skateboard… I guess since Linux-mint is so easy to use??
    • gentoo linux and void linux: Stone age survivor in the woods with old tools (since you build everything from scratch with simple tools in these distros)
    • Garuda Linux: guy with flashy LED-strips built into his shoes and expensive gaming laptop trys to be cool with sunglasses
    • Pop-Os/Ubuntu: They are clones of each other, since they are all debian/ubuntu based
    • fedora: Psychopath American Psycho movie meme
    • Kali: Hacker with sunglasses on Laptop guy meme
    • Windows: Guy with a clone of himself behind him holding a gun. (viewing the Candy-Crush advertisement in the start-menu be like:)
    • Nixos, OpenBSD: Lonely guy sitting on a chair, staring into the void, he seems to be at peace.
    • Apple: Golden luxury toilet, 5 stars
    • Tux sits on a white Porsche racing car overtaking chromeOS sitting in a spongebob meme car, Apple with a cool Porsche red racing car behind.