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The Picard Maneuver piefed.world The_Picard_Maneuver@piefed.world
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illusionist lemmy.zip illusionist@lemmy.zip
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#2 · (edited) Quote Reply

Ubuntu is the tinfoil hat guy who believes weird stuff but people still follow her because she is loud

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N.E.P.T.R lemmy.blahaj.zone Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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#3 · (edited) Quote Reply

Alpine is minimal. That kid would show up in one piece pajamas because it serves the job of pants, shirt, underwear, and sweater+hood (if it comes with a hood).

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Pommes_für_dein_Balg feddit.org mech@feddit.org
Joined: 2025-10-06
#4 · (edited) Quote Reply

Slackware: Just sits there quietly and tries to blend in, but wears a plaid 3-piece-suit and smokes a pipe.

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Skullgrid lemmy.world Skullgrid@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-29
#5 · Quote Reply

a student is outdated?

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👍Maximum Derek👍 discuss.tchncs.de Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2023-07-21
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Ubuntu is the tinfoil hat guy who believes weird stuff but people still follow her because she is loud

I was thinking Ubuntu is the one who follows people around and steps on the heels of their shoes while they walk, but has loads of "friends" because they have money.

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illusionist lemmy.zip illusionist@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-30
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I was thinking Ubuntu is the one who follows people around and steps on the heels of their shoes while they walk, but has loads of "friends" because they have money.

That fits as well 😁

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bulwark lemmy.world bulwark@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-07
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Alpine is minimal. That kid would show up in one piece pajamas because it serves the job of pants, shirt, underwear, and sweater+hood (if it comes with a hood).

don't forget their lunchbox (BusyBox)

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sudoMakeUser sh.itjust.works sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2026-01-30
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Ubuntu is always trying to sell you stuff by forcing it into random unrelated conversations

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ordnance_qf_17_pounder reddthat.com ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com
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cygnus lemmy.ca cygnus@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-13
#11 · Quote Reply

Apparently there are no women in Linuxville?

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slacktoid lemmy.ml slacktoid@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2021-08-18
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You fucked OP's mom.

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bw42 lemmy.world bw42@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-03-08
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Slackware: Just sits there quietly and tries to blend in, but wears a plaid 3-piece-suit and smokes a pipe.

I think Slackware would be more:

Sits in the back of the room quietly working, well wearing a three piece plaid suit and smoking a pipe. Depending on the day the pipe may contain tobacco, marijuana, and/or mushrooms. Still uses a slide ruler because its stable tech.

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captainlezbian lemmy.world captainlezbian@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-29
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Apparently there are no women in Linuxville?

Nah Fedora's a girl, sorry that's how you find out your mom is gay

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SurrealPartisan lemmy.world surrealpartisan@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-05
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Apparently there are no women in Linuxville?

Even though I find it likely that you detected an actual bias in the design of the meme, I don't see any explicit indications of Manjaro's, Fedora's or Alpine's genders.

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Ghostie lemmy.zip Ghostie@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-12-16
#16 · (edited) Quote Reply

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tio_bira lemmy.world tio_bira@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-15
#17 · Quote Reply

Debian

everyone likes him

Press X for Highly Doubt

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Anas lemmy.world anas@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-11
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Even though I find it likely that you detected an actual bias in the design of the meme, I don't see any explicit indications of Manjaro's, Fedora's or Alpine's genders.

They’re still not wrong; they’d be girls, not women.

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arcine jlai.lu arcine@jlai.lu
Joined: 2026-02-15
#19 · (edited) Quote Reply

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Strider lemmy.world Strider@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-09
#20 · Quote Reply

I feel the word reliable is missing for Debian.

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Fizz lemmy.nz Fizz@lemmy.nz
Joined: 2023-06-12
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Slackware: Just sits there quietly and tries to blend in, but wears a plaid 3-piece-suit and smokes a pipe.

Slackware is the ancient teacher still using chalk and a blackboard threatening to beat misbehaving kids.

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Fizz lemmy.nz Fizz@lemmy.nz
Joined: 2023-06-12
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Loving family, lots of friends, wealthy, intelligent, very cute pets.

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Meldrik lemmy.wtf meldrik@lemmy.wtf
Joined: 2023-06-11
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Fedora and Alpine have no chill lol

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Meldrik lemmy.wtf meldrik@lemmy.wtf
Joined: 2023-06-11
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Debian everyone likes him Press X for Highly Doubt

Really? What do people have against Debian?

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wltr discuss.tchncs.de wltr@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2025-10-26
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Really? What do people have against Debian?

Obsolete. No WiFi drivers ever. (Might be false by now.) Always breaks during major upgrades (that’s only my experience, so I could be wrong here too). But hey, it’s obsolete!

Don’t break Debian, they say.

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kautau lemmy.world kautau@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-18
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lol NixOS shows up every day with their younger sibling that is somehow smarter than them but yesterday they were the younger sibling

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da_cow (she/her) feddit.org cows_are_underrated@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-06-22
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Endeavour: Openly has a crush on arch, but is too lazy to put effort into dating.

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Kjell lemmy.world Kjell@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-02-04
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I feel the word reliable is missing for Debian.

Debian - A little boring and outdated, but friendly and reliable. Everyone likes him.

Like this?

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glowie infosec.pub glowie@infosec.pub
Joined: 2023-08-07
#29 · Quote Reply

I use Arch btw

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Ceruleum lemmy.wtf Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf
Joined: 2025-02-04
#30 · (edited) Quote Reply

Mint, or/and Bazite?

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tehn00bi lemmy.world tehn00bi@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-06
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Alpine is minimal. That kid would show up in one piece pajamas because it serves the job of pants, shirt, underwear, and sweater+hood (if it comes with a hood).

Meme needs to be revised to this

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corsicanguppy lemmy.ca corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-12
#32 · Quote Reply

don't forget their lunchbox (BusyBox)

It better be a batman lunchbox.

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corsicanguppy lemmy.ca corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-12
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Really? What do people have against Debian?

Packaging system has faulty validation.

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nieceandtows programming.dev nieceandtows@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-06-20
#34 · Quote Reply

a student is outdated?

Still uses memes from 10 years ago

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kingofthezyx lemmy.zip kingofthezyx@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-04
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Mint, or/and Bazite?

Mint - nice and polite kid, doesn't smell bad

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harsh3466 lemmy.ml harsh3466@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2024-02-17
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NixOs is the one in the corner playing with their imaginary friends.

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parzival lemmy.org parzival@lemmy.org
Joined: 2025-12-17
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I use arch but don't want people to talk to me

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Billegh lemmy.world bhamlin@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-01
#38 · Quote Reply

Fedora and Alpine have no chill lol

Fedora has new parents that are rich, but nobody likes because they're antisocial.

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𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘 infosec.pub 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub
Joined: 2023-06-04
#39 · Quote Reply

Sorry about your mom btw

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mic_check_one_two lemmy.dbzer0.com mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-03-20
#40 · (edited) Quote Reply

Mint, or/and Bazite?

Bazzite: The kid with rich parents who has built three gaming PCs in the past year, just to keep his hardware up-to-date… But he only uses them to emulate games that are at least 10 years old. He also thinks RAID is a backup. He happily parrots whatever last week’s tech blogger was posting about, but he gets some big parts of it wrong because he only read the AI generated summaries.

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Grass sh.itjust.works Grass@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-09-30
#41 · Quote Reply

manjaro also frequently steps on his own glasses and can't see without them.

alpine should have some minimalist edc stuff but nothing fancy and doesn't do anything else that stands out

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BartyDeCanter lemmy.sdf.org BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org
Joined: 2023-06-15
#42 · Quote Reply

Mint - nice and polite kid, doesn't smell bad

Always offering gum and tic taks to everyone.

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kingofthezyx lemmy.zip kingofthezyx@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-04
#43 · Quote Reply

Always offering gum and tic taks to everyone.

Takes the new kids under their wing.

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𝔳𝔢𝔩𝔲𝔪𝔪𝔬𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔰 lemmy.dbzer0.com velummortis@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-02-20
#44 · Quote Reply

25000 words, high school AU enemies to lovers, hurt/comfort slash

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PabloSexcrowbar piefed.social PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-11-22
#45 · Quote Reply

Ubuntu is the tinfoil hat guy who believes weird stuff but people still follow her because she is loud

Ubuntu is the annoying self-diagnosed kid that demands the whole class be run to his bizarre standards to the detriment of all the other students.

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fruitycoder sh.itjust.works fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-08-11
#46 · Quote Reply

Poor OpenSuse.
The exchange student. Pivotal to the group project. Everybody loves them when their arpund but no one mentions them

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I Cast Fist programming.dev ICastFist@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-06-22
#47 · Quote Reply

Mint, or/and Bazite?

Mint is probably the first years' teacher who still hasn't burned out

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I Cast Fist programming.dev ICastFist@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-06-22
#48 · (edited) Quote Reply

Obsolete. No WiFi drivers ever. (Might be false by now.) Always breaks during major upgrades (that’s only my experience, so I could be wrong here too). But hey, it’s obsolete! Don’t break Debian, they say.

Up to my newest laptop (which is over 4yo now), debian always had working wifi drivers from the live distro.

For a real "no wifi drivers ever", try SliTaz. It doesn't have working drivers even on my 2012 asus laptop

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wltr discuss.tchncs.de wltr@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2025-10-26
#49 · (edited) Quote Reply

Up to my newest laptop (which is over 4yo now), debian always had working wifi drivers from the live distro. For a real "no wifi drivers ever", try SliTaz. It doesn't have working drivers even on my 2012 asus laptop

I’ve been with Debian through 2000s and 2010s, and if you’re someone not knowing this foss vs proprietary thing, it’s quite difficult to explain why there’s no WiFi drivers and that you need to do some complex hoops to get this working. I had no WiFi on most laptops I interacted with, all the time.

However, fair to say that just this week I had a Fedora installation for a friend’s MacBook from 2009, and we faced no WiFi thing either. Had to install Broadcom drivers separately. So, I myself understand why there’s no drivers included, but it’s not what’s easy to explain this to someone migrating off Windows. Otherwise Debian is good, but I use it only for single board computers.

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Strider lemmy.world Strider@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-09
#50 · Quote Reply

Debian - A little boring and outdated, but friendly and reliable. Everyone likes him. Like this?

Friendly, trustworthy and reliable! 😁

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Delilah (She/Her) lemmy.blahaj.zone TheGingerNut@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-06-21
#51 · Quote Reply

Apparently there are no women in Linuxville?

Give the arch and gentoo users a couple months 🤣

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