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Hey now, thats not fair....
My chair is black, too.
I love Debian for its stability, but I hate Debian because I can't get anything to ever work on it properly.
It is stably non-functional π€‘π
This is a feature to me. I can fix issues and document workarounds, knowing that once it works it will probably continue to work until next release. With rolling or faster moving distros, every day is "I wonder if anything will break today with an update."
That's the whole point of stable distros, but people can't distinguish "stable" from "reliable" so we get comments like "arch is really stable".
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Fedora (users?)
(And yes, I know that's technically a trilby, shut up)
You'd think but here's a picture of a Fedora user.
Nah, we onto shiny crystal psuedo-gems that grow out of mostly granite.
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Hey, some of us are nyarch users - thatβs rainbow on both sides
Some people put so much time and energy in this kind of stuff. Imagine we could harvest this level of motivation from everyone and put it at the service of the sustainable transition, we would have stopped global warming at the +1.5β°C mark.
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nyay
I fucking cannot
It gets better:
Packages are always up to date thanks to Arch Linux's rolling release nature, offering good up to date bugs.
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I don't get it (Jesus, What have I started ?)
A lot of arch users are kids fucking with thinkpads ricing up their systems and putting anime wallppapers while not doing anything serious.
Ubuntu is commonly used by researchers and hardware developers who don't really care about distro as long as it's linux. The amount of times I saw people use the entire distro with default gnome skin just to launch a terminal to run their black hole simulation, the crypto cracker or some centrifuge control script... I myself am neither but ubuntu has been my go to as well since I usually don't have time to screw with archinstall, so I just use ubuntu as good starting point and then tweak the internals as I go.
Hmm. They have some surprisingly good documentation and user forums for a bunch of kids just fooling around. Very much unlike Ubuntu. I've learned years ago that Arch has good HOWTOs and solutions to common Linux problems that you won't easily find elsewhere, while you better avoid Ubuntu's forums unless you want to pick the one correct answer out of hundreds of posts guessing blindly at trivial questions. I have been using Debian for 25 years, so I don't have a horse in that race, it's just what I noticed.
I feel like I'm the odd person out, using Arch like most people use Windows. I play games, do taxes, shop online, and do very minimal customizing, mostly just in KDE settings.
It's a shockingly stable system for how "bleeding edge" it is.
Yeah same, and I only run updates like once every two weeks.
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Arch users have the most whacky, customized computers you can find. Meanwhile arch itself is a small distro with very little features out the box.
Ubuntu as a distro has tons of features out the box but ubuntu users generally just keep the default without adding or using any features.
I think a statistic about how much of your userbase keeps the default config could be a testament to how good your OS is
How do you even measure that? If you add a single line to some dot config you've changed a config. Further, a huge group of people intentionally want to be supplied configs that are minimal so they can edit them how they please.
But that would mean templeOS is the best.
Wait...
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Arch, a community-driven distro that hostorically required heavy use of the terminal to even install. It presents itself as very sleek and utilitarian (hence plain black girl). Arch users tend toward enthusiasts also commonly in the anime, furry etc. fandoms. Wearers of "Programming socks" almost certainly use arch (hence rainbow girl).
Ubuntu was historically marketed as the distro for everyone. Ready out of the box, polished GUI, media codecs, marketing materials made by someone who got paid to do them (hence rainbow girl). Ubuntu these days is an exceedingly corporate distro, Canonical really wants to be Microsoft. Ubuntu is very commonly used on servers for commercial and enterprise solutions and end-user desktops are vestigial at this point (hence plain black girl).
Fortunately this is wrong. They invest quite a bit into their desktop releases. They even have a small team that tests the Steam snap alone to make sure it works.
The recent addition of triple buffering into GNOME was a contribution of an an Ubuntu engineer. And if you look at the sponsor pages of projects like KDE you will see Canonical. I think they very much care, they just don't fold under pressure from comment sections.
I think the joke is on how people customize the visuals of their distro vs how the distro presents itself.
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Kali usersDebian: Brunette Debian users: Brunette
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