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    [–] dismay3915@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    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.

    [–] Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Reliable, and only real car guys know they're cool.

    Civic, then, or Corolla

    [–] dismay3915@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    Civic, prius, yaris, corolla, accord (basically 90% f japanese cars) can be fit in this category

    [–] ian@feddit.uk 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

    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.

    [–] presoak@lazysoci.al 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I installed Debian Linux for several computer-illiterate old ladies. They never had to look under the hood. They are very happy with it.

    [–] ian@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

    Yes. They shouldn't need to. Sadly some think everyone should.

    [–] Cellari@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    Kind of you to assume Arch Linux is going to tell you what the outcome is going to look like :D

    [–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 84 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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    [–] michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
    [–] ricdeh@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

    More like LFS

    [–] j4yc33@piefed.social 133 points 4 days ago (2 children)
    [–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 33 points 4 days ago

    the finnish origins of both makes it extra good

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    [–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

    I want that one:

    How is the distro called?

    [–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

    That's ubuntu

    [–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 102 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (11 children)

    Fedora

    Proxmox?

    Which would make this ESXI?

    Especially since it's on its way out.

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    [–] fulgidus@feddit.it 3 points 2 days ago

    Mor like gentoo or lfs... Arch nowadays is foolproof

    [–] greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org 76 points 4 days ago (4 children)

    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.

    [–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 69 points 4 days ago (1 children)

    Gentoo is just a pile of steel and aluminum beams, a few drums of oil, a cow, and a note that reads "Good luck."

    [–] notthebees@reddthat.com 39 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

    That's lfs. Gentoo is a kit car like the Blakley Bearcat.

    Edit: I'm gonna go read Gary Paulsen books now

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    [–] timestatic@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

    Now we're just missing Gentoo and Linux From Scratch

    [–] regenwetter@piefed.social 66 points 4 days ago (9 children)

    Debian should be a small truck (i.e. one that's actually used for cargo, not as a penis prosthetic), and the bottom right is clearly Gentoo!

    [–] negativenull@piefed.world 89 points 4 days ago (17 children)
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    [–] kautau@lemmy.world 49 points 4 days ago (7 children)
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    [–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 41 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

    openSUSE

    Tiny Core Linux(/Alpine/Void/etc)

    OpenWrt

    [–] merc@sh.itjust.works 46 points 4 days ago (4 children)
    [–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 33 points 4 days ago (1 children)
    [–] merc@sh.itjust.works 30 points 4 days ago

    Typically it's more:

    Cheap hoverboard

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    [–] mech@feddit.org 38 points 4 days ago
    [–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 32 points 4 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

    Then this is Windows ~~10/11~~:

    Snow Cruiser Snow Cruiser plan

    Btw, it got stuck in Antarctica.

    [–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 29 points 4 days ago (2 children)
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    [–] rishado@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago (4 children)

    Why is kali always in these memes? Does anyone actually use it?

    [–] littleomid@feddit.org 1 points 16 hours ago

    Only as image in a hypervisor for pentesting.

    [–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 33 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    You're not supposed to, which means that lots of people probably do.

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    [–] Agent641@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago

    Drive -fwd

    Sudo drive -fwd

    Drive -left

    Drive -stop

    Drive -brake

    Sudp drive -brake

    Udo drive -brake

    Sudo dribe -brake

    F U C K

    [–] m0stlyharmless@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 days ago

    Those 60s classic cars, though iconic, relied on a very different planned lifespan compared to modern cars. It was much shorter than the cars of today.

    A better analogy for Debian would probably be an older Honda Civic model. It’s older and lacks many flashy or hyper-modern features, but it’s reliable, maintainable, and actively supported.

    [–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    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.

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