The distro family trees are like different pantheons.

Distros are like individual gods. Community developers are priests and end-users are the commoners who pray for blessings, good fortune, and happy lives. Priests direct the prayers of commoners to their respective gods.

There is the Debian pantheon, ancient gods of peace and stillness.

The Arch pantheon, progressive gods that bring revolution along with a bit of chaos.

The Red Hat pantheon, gods tha- wtf am I writing?

    • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
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      19 days ago

      Some evenings, when a piece of code I wrote compiles on the first try and it all seems so straightforward and simple, I feel blessed by the Spirit of the Machine.

  • shirro@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    20 days ago

    No but there is an ideological basis for free software though it is firmly based on practical experiences dealing with the consequences of close source devices.

    Red Hat and Ubuntu are business. Debian and Arch are communities. Some of the smaller distros are basically that one guy in Nebraska.

    People promote them for various reasons. An IBM employee will have different reasons to the supporter types who latch on to a distro and mascot like it was a football team. Now football, there is a religion. Its all ritual, nothing they do has any practical use, people congregate once a week and in some parts of the world it turns violent.

    When the deb users start committing genocide on the rpm users I’ll call it a religion. Until then its just a bunch of comicon fans cheering for their favorite anime that nobody else knows.

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    20 days ago

    I like how you realized part way through that you were typing out nonsense, and decided to post it anyway lol

    Also: how high are you right now?

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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      20 days ago

      It is too bad his mental health overtook him, with proper medicine that guy could have been such a much more amazing computer science dude. Although maybe the meds would have taken away his inner insight. It amazing that singled handedly he built his own OS. It is a wacky system, but still amazing

      • ace_garp@lemmy.world
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        20 days ago

        It is an incredible solo-effort, with largely simplistic features.

        As a usable OS, it’s a fever-dream curiosity.

        • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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          19 days ago

          Yeah, I meant amazing that he created all that while struggling with schizophrenia, I can only imageline the accomplishments if he was well.

  • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca
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    18 days ago

    If this is your take after your annual Xmas Magic Mushrooms trip, you need to take more shrooms

    • folaht@lemmy.ml
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      18 days ago

      We pray for pacman to deliver as he often does.

      All hail to pacman!

    • KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol
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      20 days ago

      And saint IGNUcius of the church of emacs. May we recite our confession of faith:

      There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels.

          • introvertcatto@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            19 days ago

            I mean, if you know how to install arch and if you know more than basic command line. Gentoo is not hard you just need patience to compile everything. I installed it and still consider myself a linux beginner. I mean I know more than linux beginners but still far from power users like mental outlaw and luke smith.

            • KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol
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              18 days ago

              Thanks for the tip, I also consider myself a linux begginer. I started with arch (without arch-install). I’ve borked enough installations to not be a complete noob. So I guess I could try installing gentoo.