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Don’t forget the Gentoo crowd
That’s a badass
capecloak.Right! I want one.
We really need to bring back cloak-wearing…
I am sorry, but that notebook is way too modern for a proper Gentoo user. Anything above 500MHz is wasted energy with useless kernel flags
If it compiles too fast, you don’t have time to properly savour it.
He has to use a separate mouse! A mouse!! Never seen a mouse user in the tiling wm world.
I guess tiling WM users never need to edit an image, eh?
Any web developer needs a mouse.
Or anyone who works with any ticketing system.
+1 for Dr Pepper
-1 for non Lenovo machineThe total is zero, the Force is in balance. All is well
Wouldn’t a real Gentoo user use a genuine IBM era Thinkpad?
Now that we can game, we need the horsepower.
Oh. I didn’t even notice the Dr Pepper. … Also… I did not know there was any correlation between Dr Pepper and gentoo. I stopped my Dr Pepper addiction 5 years before I used gentoo. … I was on 4L a day for months, and didn’t realise I had a problem until I drank 9L in 24hr.
+1 for “-1 for non Lenovo machine”. [… unless it’s like tuxedo or system76 or something like that or some pure custom job on a different architecture]
I resen… Shit he even has a DrPepper. I guess I need to wash my cloak.
Hoodie, MX Master and Gentoo, that’s literally my old stack, except it was a desktop not laptop.
Had gentoo as my daily driver for years, then it turned out that I was worse at optimizing my system than the debian guys who create distros professionally, so I just… stopped.
Spent too much time fiddling with gentoo because it was fun, now I’m on fedora because it just works and is modern enough.
(The amount of time spent fixing my system once I discovered “breakmygentoo” we probably shouldn’t talk about)
Genuine question: is that cloak yours and how did you make it?
This is a random internet image for shitposts and giggles. I considered the face to be obscured enough for the guy to be sufficiently anonymous, though he deserves fame and fortune for his awesomeness.
Linux user for 25+ years here. I’ve tried 'em all. These days I just use Mint.
Same here, except on servers, where I prefer debian.
Because I’m old and tired, and I just want to install and be up and running in as short of a time as possible without dicking around.
Probably why you can sleep like a baby.
Babies are terrible with sleeping and wake up constantly causing problems.
Eh. You just give them a little shake and they go quiet pretty quickly.
I have yet to encounter a use case where I would need anything other than Mint.
Same conclusion for me. Been using Linux for years, Mint is the only distro I’ve used that #JustWorks in my experience.
I use LMDE as my personal laptop, it’s rock stable.
What’s the difference between LMDE and running Cinnamon on Debian?
LMDE tries to give you the Mint experience on a Debian base. It’s Debian for people who like Mint, I guess.
Iirc LMDE uses a btrfs naming scheme that is incompatible with Timeshift for example, and it removes some standard Mint features. The last time I tried LMDE is was basically Debian with cinnamon (and green theme), but what is the Mint experience?
but what is the Mint experience?
Mostly just the way Mint is set up out of the box and having most of the Mint tools available. I remember LMDE lacking some of the tools like the GPU driver installer last time I tried it, but I’m sure those are either being added over time or will be in the future.
After 20 plus years of Linux I also really love using mint on any machine with a screen. My servers are all Debian based but my desktop and laptop are mint it just works
Also, not sure how using arch is equal to the picture, not sure if that’s supposed to be a trans girl, an e girl, or something else. Using arch is more like a mechanic with a car that breaks down every time they change anything.
Yep, been on Linux for 10 or 12 years now, I honestly can’t remember. Distro hopped at first, then I found Mint and never saw a need to change.
I’m in an organization that helps people install Linux on their devices, and we collectively decided to install Linux Mint. I never used it myself, and to me, the distribution doesn’t matter too much.
However, I was negatively surprised that Linux Mint decided to mix closed-source proprietary software together with open-source software: http://packages.linuxmint.com/search.php?release=alfa§ion=import&keyword=
They also advertise them in top positions on their package installers, which also doesn’t show the packages licenses anywhere. To me advertising them and mixing them like they are the same is bad… They also don’t offer ways to filter them out… So… while I still install LM for others, I’m not a fan…
CachyOS user
I installed it last week. If just kinda works, is there supposed to be something bad about it?
What’s bad about the picture?
a distinct lack of thigh high socks
Just because you don’t see them doesn’t mean they’re not there.
We literally put the :3 right there and no one saw it
Just in the context it’s very “performative hipster”. I’m not taking offense, just new to this and like to know people’s opinions/perceptions until I can eventually form my own.
Oh don’t worry, start working on that twirly mustache and you’ll get there in no time!
I was thinking more fashionable and “stand-outy”.
Real hipsters, real performative hipsters, use arch.
Don’t take those memes seriously, I think the only bad thing I’d have about CachyOS is that it’s probably getting popularity as a trend, which doesn’t reflect on the distro itself.
In my particular personal opinion it seems like a good choice if you already know what you’re doing, since it’s mostly just Arch with a nice installer, which I consider to be a solid choice with good support.
I’m mostly just asking because I figured the meme was based in something.
I’m no experienced software guy, mostly just a guy who isn’t dangerously stupid, but I’ve been having a good time so far. Or rather, a boring time because the only thing I had to really do was edit the fstab so my other drive would auto-mount. Otherwise it’s delightfully unexciting.
The image in the comment mostly just feels hipster to me, and that would fit jumping on a currently trendy distro that’s also technically Arch. I don’t know if there’s more to it, it’s just a vibe thing for me.
Nixos
NixOS
Weird. Just turned 47 and I JUST tried Debian tonight.
So far it’s very good.
Get off my lawn
Speaking as an Arch btw user, my socks match, thank you very much. How rude.
Speak for yourself, asymmetry is awesome :3
As a Debian user… Yes
Same. I feel well represented as a Debian user.
I’m old and cranky and beat up, but I feel that pic is just touch too old as a debian user
It’s more about how old I feel I think.
So Linux Mint Debian Edition would just be a middle-aged person?
As a Linux Mint Debian Edition user. I guess I’m just Benjamin Button.
TIL I’m a geriatric baby. (LMDE)
The real life Benjamin Button
Lemme zoom in here just a wee bit on this here whatchycallit… Meme? Oh fiddlesticks, I don’t have me glasses… There they are… Oh! Hee hee haa haa you young fellers are drole.
I use Debian.
Fairly accurate. SUSE is more like an IT guy forced to wear a suit to work that is not tailored well.
This guy is Kali Linux or Qubes/Whonix/TailsOS:
What a fantastic image!
distro memes should be updated for 2026. i.e. with cachy,bazzite,steamos.
sparkling arch, sparkling fedora, and diet arch
Yeah. Surprisingly cachyos had the largest userbase om steam after steamos
Cachy is pretty good and just works for a lot of stuff
Cachyos is Arch for people who want to use their computers
Arch is for people who yearn to control the parasympathetic nervous system with iron chains
The funny thing is I though Arch would be lighter but after trying debian it isn’t.
What would that make Endeavor?
Not that surprising. It advertises itself as a gaming first distro and is very stable out of the box. It would be either that or bazzite for the top spot.
Bazzite surprisingly far down the list
Using steam statistics is going to bias your data toward gaming-oriented distros.
cachyos is also topdog on distrowatch, by a wide margin
Swap Ubuntu and mint, and Suse needs to be visibly German.
🤔
So… this for Tumbleweed and lederhosen for leap?
Beautiful