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CallMeAl (like Alan) piefed.world CallMeAl@piefed.world
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Buffalox lemmy.world Buffalox@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-18
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My wife uses Debian, but I love her anyway. ❤️

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slazer2au lemmy.world slazer2au@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-30
#3 · Quote Reply

Both. desktop is arch based, server is Debian.

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aim4harmony lemmy.world aim4harmony@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-03-27
#4 · Quote Reply

Meeeh, date a guy.

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Slashme lemmy.world Slashme@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-12-24
#5 · Quote Reply

She uses Gentoo.

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Diplomjodler lemmy.world Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-01-08
#6 · Quote Reply

Both. desktop is arch based, server is Debian.

You slut, you!

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Broadfern lemmy.world Broadfern@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-02-03
#7 · Quote Reply

She’s clearly a LFS person

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Eggymatrix sh.itjust.works Eggymatrix@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-07-09
#8 · Quote Reply

Debian for work, arch for home

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slazer2au lemmy.world slazer2au@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-30
#9 · Quote Reply

You slut, you!

Are you waiting for an invitation?

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Diplomjodler lemmy.world Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-01-08
#10 · Quote Reply

Are you waiting for an invitation?

Oooh yeah, baby, let's debug the networking stack together!

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Zachariah lemmy.world Zachariah@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
#11 · Quote Reply

Debian in the kitchen and Arch in the bedroom

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Lena gregtech.eu lena@gregtech.eu
Joined: 2025-01-19
#12 · (edited) Quote Reply

Ubuntu on the desktop and Debian on the server. Just crucify me already

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Wildmimic anarchist.nexus Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus
Joined: 2025-09-05
#13 · Quote Reply

Fedora.

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auzy1 lemmy.world auzy1@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-05-03
#14 · Quote Reply

Linus would be out... He uses Fedora

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ghost9 piefed.social ghost9@piefed.social
Joined: 2026-01-28
#15 · Quote Reply

Debian for work, arch for home

Debian in the streets, arch in the sheets.

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djdarren piefed.social djdarren@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-10-07
#16 · Quote Reply

She's a Hannah Montana girl.

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Zen_Shinobi lemmy.world Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-08-11
#17 · Quote Reply

MacOS of course /s

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lime! feddit.nu lime@feddit.nu
Joined: 2024-08-21
#18 · Quote Reply

she grew up with a BeBox

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NaibofTabr infosec.pub NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
Joined: 2023-06-18
#19 · Quote Reply

Qubes

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mote lemmy.ca mote@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2026-04-20
#20 · Quote Reply

por qué no los dos?

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user1234 fedinsfw.app user1234@fedinsfw.app
Joined: 2026-02-20
#21 · Quote Reply

Depends on the use case.

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phar lemmy.world phar@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-10
#22 · Quote Reply

I kind of feel like this comic was best with just the first two panels

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squirrel cake.kobel.fyi squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi
Joined: 2026-04-19
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My wife uses Debian, but I love her anyway. ❤️

Do you call her Debbie Anne?

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toothpaste_sandwich thebrainbin.org toothpaste_sandwich@thebrainbin.org
Joined: 2025-10-16
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I kind of feel like this comic was best with just the first two panels

Oh, no, often I agree with this kind of thing but in this case I really think the third panel adds something.

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DokPsy lemmy.world DokPsy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-18
#25 · Quote Reply

She's a Hannah Montana girl.

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

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DokPsy lemmy.world DokPsy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-18
#26 · (edited) Quote Reply

Depends on the use case.

Debian for stability, arch for the memes, !#++ for the minimalism(still Debian but will make themselves into whatever you want)

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IrateAnteater sh.itjust.works IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-09-07
#27 · Quote Reply

She uses Gentoo.

Still pass. S&M just isn't my thing.

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tal lemmy.today tal@lemmy.today
Joined: 2023-10-04
#28 · Quote Reply

Linus would be out... He uses Fedora

He's also married.

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Err(()).unwrap() Moderator rtxn@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-24
#29 · (edited) Quote Reply

Oooh yeah, baby, let's debug the networking stack together!

Don't be silly, chmod o-w your $WILLY!

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jaybone lemmy.zip jaybone@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-02-08
#30 · Quote Reply

I kind of feel like this comic was best with just the first two panels

Or even just the first panel.

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jaybone lemmy.zip jaybone@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-02-08
#31 · Quote Reply

por qué no los dos?

“I run DOS”

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Ftumch lemmy.today Ftumch@lemmy.today
Joined: 2026-02-13
#32 · Quote Reply

NixOS or gtfo!

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jaybone lemmy.zip jaybone@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-02-08
#33 · Quote Reply

Ubuntu on the desktop and Debian on the server. Just crucify me already

I’m noticing Lemmy is becoming slightly less hateful towards Ubuntu lately.

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SkaveRat discuss.tchncs.de SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2023-07-09
#34 · Quote Reply

Do you call her Debbie Anne?

Fun fact that not a lot of people seem to know: the name is a portmanteau of "Deborah" and "Ian". The names of the Creator and his then wife

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djdarren piefed.social djdarren@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-10-07
#35 · Quote Reply

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

There's a Hannah Montana Linux? Wild.

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auzy1 lemmy.world auzy1@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-05-03
#36 · Quote Reply

He's also married.

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

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TrickDacy lemmy.world TrickDacy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-27
#37 · Quote Reply

There's a Hannah Montana Linux? Wild.

Notsureif.gif

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Don't forget to stay hydrated.🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉 sh.itjust.works testaccount789@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-16
#38 · Quote Reply

Debian in the kitchen and Arch in the bedroom

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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slothrop lemmy.ca slothrop@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2024-07-03
#39 · Quote Reply

"Arch or Debian"

"Slackware"

"Marry me"

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slothrop lemmy.ca slothrop@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2024-07-03
#40 · Quote Reply

Still pass. S&M just isn't my thing.

Plus, 6 months before ready to orgasm.

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Alex lemmy.ml stsquad@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-06-09
#41 · Quote Reply

Debian for the stable base flatpak/snap/src for the bleeding edge apps.

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Ftumch lemmy.today Ftumch@lemmy.today
Joined: 2026-02-13
#42 · Quote Reply

she grew up with a BeBox

😍 Hey baby, wanna go back to your place and show me your blinkenlights?

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diaphragmwp discuss.tchncs.de diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2026-06-03
#43 · Quote Reply

Debian for the stable base flatpak/snap/src for the bleeding edge apps.

extra steps

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DokPsy lemmy.world DokPsy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-18
#44 · Quote Reply

There's a Hannah Montana Linux? Wild.

There was a while ago and then it was recently revived

https://hannahmontana.sourceforge.net/

https://gitlab.com/DecaCagle/hannahmontanalinux26

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RQG lemmy.world RQG@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
#45 · Quote Reply

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

Only buy traditional food with a best before date at least 3 years in the future.

In bedroom a new bed every other day with a lot of bed bugs.

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refreeze lemmy.world refreeze@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-12-07
#46 · Quote Reply

NixOS or gtfo!

The NixOS user in this scenario would be asking who is sponsoring the date.

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tal lemmy.today tal@lemmy.today
Joined: 2023-10-04
#47 · (edited) Quote Reply

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

She went for him in late 1993:

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

Linus Torvalds is married to Tove Torvalds (née 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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palordrolap fedia.io palordrolap@fedia.io
Joined: 2024-08-13
#48 · Quote Reply

Debian for stability, arch for the memes, !#++ for the minimalism(still Debian but will make themselves into whatever you want)

Well, I've learned about a new distro today. Feels worthy of being added to the list of "want to fool around with but will probably never get around to."

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Landless2029 lemmy.world Landless2029@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-10-23
#49 · Quote Reply

Both. desktop is arch based, server is Debian.

Yep. "Depends on the use case" is a solid answer.

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Taleya aussie.zone Taleya@aussie.zone
Joined: 2023-06-21
#50 · Quote Reply

"Arch or Debian" "Slackware" "Marry me"

Slack was my first nix exposure professionally, talk about the deep end

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Björn swg-empire.de bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de
Joined: 2023-07-08
#51 · Quote Reply

Still pass. S&M just isn't my thing.

Luckily the USE flags narrowly define consent.

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