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.

I buy ingredients, not seeds and animals.

don’t kink share

"Arch or Debian?"

"TempleOS, you heathen!"

Plan 9

Sponsoring?

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.

angry Gentoo and NixOS noises

"Ubuntu."

"NEXT!!!"

Deb Deb Deb, Deb Debbie Anne!

What happens when a zealot meets a more zealous zealot

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

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

well the vast majority of those are just arch and debian with extra steps, with the occasional fedora based or independent distro

It's a great one if you have like a netbook or other light resource device. Or like to heavy modify the layout aka ricing

🥵 yeah talk dirty to me.

And then I pushed him over

M'linux

~And then he kissed me~

Arch! Specifically cachyos. I loved it when I used it.

Debbie Anne, Debbie Anne
Much to cool for Windows pain
Debbie Anne she's like one in a mill-
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan

Guix or rtfm!

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.

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

• Pls marry me (pls)

when

I loved it... but I stopped?

Yep. Should be "Windows or Linux?"

I know part of the joke is that it's not this comparison--that asking "arch or debian" also rules out Windows--but it really is the important dividing line.

Maybe they stopped needing a PC

OS/2 Warp

Gentoo

well known and supported
🤪

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.

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.

I run apt upgrade before apt update.

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

"Hammer to penis or steak" is less interesting than "Steak or lobster"

Anyways the answer is Steak, and a different steak if its for a server, and lobster (derogatory) if its for an important server

Arch is good if you know what youre doing or need a hobby. Cachyos is great if you want arch but want to do things other than troubleshoot your own mistakes

I use the only correct option. TempleOS. /j

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

Arch or Debian?
answers question with question
Speed or reliability?

I’m all for touching as long as we don’t sudo

Reverse UNO

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.

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.

My iptables INPUT chain default policy is set to ACCEPT.

Slackware users in shambles!

is that like google??

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.

NixOS* but yes

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.

uss babe uss

Debian.