I use Debian BTW

No time for distrowars

...says the guy that makes a meme shitting on users of every other distro.

Honestly what is wrong with 'just works'. If the policies behind the project and the security and privacy is all in place using this option is nothing wrong.

For linux to grow it needs to be more 'just works'. Let the complex stuff and simple stuff be there. It's not one or the other.

Well I can tell you why Linux does not have a higher adoption rate: toxic shit like this.

Isn't the point of this meme for the low IQ and high IQ people to have the same preference? Any way, I'm on Linux Mint usually -_-

How is Gentoo keeping it simple?

As a Mint user: What do those symbols even mean? (or: "Distro? What's a distro?")

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A bell curve featuring numerous wojaks and Linux distribution system icons by IQ score. From left to right they are: At the left 0.1% end of the bell curve with no IQ score labels is a boomlet wojak accompanied by Ubuntu icon and the text: WHERE START BUTTON? Between 0.1% and 14% on the left side of the bell curve, encompassing the IQ scores 55 and 70 is an NPC wojak accompanied by the Arch icon and the text: I USE ARCH BTW Between 14% on the left side of the bell curve and approximately 34% on the right side of the bell curve, encompassing the IQ scores 85, 100, and 115 is a crying Zoomer wojak accompanied by the Fedora icon and the text: JUST WORKS Between 34% and 0.1% on the right side of the bell curve, encompassing the IQ scores 130 and 145 is a big brain wojak accompanied by the Gentoo icon and the text: K.I.S.S At the right 0.1% end of the bell curve is a light brown hood wojak accompanied by the Debian icon and the text: NO TIME FOR DISTROWARS

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I use Linux Mint because I like Mint Ice Cream

I use Parrot in honour of my parrot Loba

I use Ubuntu Mate because I've always wanted one

I use Peppermint because it's my favourite flavor of gum

I use Rocky Linux because he's my favourite American Hero

I use fedora because I know it will come back in style

This is so stupid. They're all fine.

This was me, except I went straight from Ubuntu to Debian. At some point I wondered why I was doing all this manual maintenance. I realized that Ubuntu relies on Debian and so I switched. Haven’t looked back.

Debian is for people who have shit to get done and don't care about a neon colored wallpaper, mostly don't have a wallpaper at all.

NixOS: from where I am, you're indistinguishable

Bah, all the same, Linux 6.4, Xfce 4.18, be it Debian or Arch, there is no difference except the package management...

Distro swapping is a rite of passage. The grass is always greener. Until you settle and stopped caring about the OS at all. Which is why I went back to Windows (7 at the time) mainly for gaming compatibility.

Proton got me hnnng tho I'll definitely be giving either Endeavor or OpenSuse a go when I build my next computer. Rolling distro sounds like a "set it and forget it" thing and I like that.

I've been a Linux user since installing Slackware from floppy discs. These days I run Mint on my desktop/laptop and Ubuntu on servers. Does this make me weak?

Kompile It yourSSelf

I don't know why people hate Fedora so much and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.

XFCE Debian is my perfect OS. Just does what I need and that's all. Why look anywhere else?

Damn you. I'm even wearing my glasses rn

no time for distro wars if you're too busy hunting down drivers and unbreaking everything :]

(debian still best distro tho)

I love Arch and Hyprland, but when I need to spin up some linux machine ASAP that can be used by normies I will install Linux Mint.

I had a girlfriend who used Debian back around 2005.

Never have I been around an OS that didn't work as often as Debian. It wouldn't crash, but need to be updated or something every hour. It was a full time job keeping it running for her.

As an Ubuntu user I feel called out. But the callout is also fair… I am conflicted. Is it a mitigating factor that it’s a headless server?

You want to get defederated?

I think I'm stupid as I don't get this at all. I've never used a distro that doesn't work. They all work. Some are more advanced, some are more stable, some are more polished, some even look and behave like Windows, but fundamentally they are work.

Arch is Debian sid with a better package manager

Checkmate liberals.

I like Ubuntu.

As a mint user, I can confirm that I still don't know where the start button is.

But it does just work 😁

I'm currently just after the fedora stage so far. Guess I better go try Gentoo.

As an Ubuntu weanie why should I swap?

I still love Debian to bits and pieces but I can't convince me to use it as a daily driver again. And I used it as such for nearly a decade.

My main issue is the software being dated. Yes, there are backports, and with flatpak support we can circumvent that even better but... no.

Red Hat making memes now?

I am a Debian unstable user who used to use Gentoo, the reason I stopped using Gentoo is revdep-rebuild. Do not want to do another revdep-rebuild ever again.

Is this the best this sub can do? Just rehashed "I use x btw" memes ?

What about opensuse

Nixos: chewing on arch documentation in the corner

+1 for Debian here, but I'm on KDE.

Linux from scratch users : 🫣🤪🥵🤯😭😭😭☠️👹

I'm on Ubuntu. A week ago I had to look up how to use a python script. I wouldn't even hide porn that much.

Remind me what the two on the right are.

Debian: "I'm a Docker container"

I use Debian XFCE, and it is perfect for me.

I spend more and more time after each new fedora install to get it perfect. There are so many small tweaks i gotta do that I might just learn NixOS

Pretty accurate. Heard someone describe Debian as "boring Arch" the other days and it's pretty accurate. Whilst the base system is still fairly useable it's still pretty bare bones and it seems like most Debian users will tweak it slightly to their liking and just stick with it. Been me for the past few years

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Serious question: For those wanting to run Linux, and not having experience in the command line, which distro would you recommend? Gotta be as user-friendly as possible.

Manjaro should fit between Ubuntu and Arch

As an Arch user i started building from source my software recently, guess i'll end on Gentoo some day

Anyone with Nobara?

What about OpenSUSE?

Debian me to

Here I am with Manjaro.... I guess I'm with Ubuntu here; I'm ok with that

For me it was Ubuntu straight to CentOS, then settled on RedHat

Primarily a Gentoo user these days but Debian will always be my happy place.

but it's true 😭 fedora really does JUST WORK 😭😭💀

I'd say Void linux and opensuse also qualify for the "No time for distrowars" section.

Heh I went straight from Fedora to Debian. I'm 7 months late to this meme in true Debian fashion.

Fedora with AUR would be ideal for me. I've had too many random issues running Ubuntu and ubuntu-based OSs and while I like the simplicity of Debian, its too... little? for what I'm looking for. Arch and arch-based works great, but most are KDE and I would need to make a lot of changes out of the box before I can start using it (the default pdf viewer for KDE is nicer that Evince (the pdf viewer packaged with most gnome DEs) but I can't print off some pages in e-books whereas Evince allows that)

Fedora server be Ballin tho

That doesn't make any sense right? Most of them just works at least as well as Fedora.

Artix for desktop, Alpine for servers.

Debian user here... Just works and has been working since '95 here. After Slackware 1.3 and Redhat (non EL) 4.2 I was fed up with reinstalls for major upgrades, so I switched to Debian. It just works, most of the times. (for the first time in decades I had to revert a kernel to the previous version, that what you get running testing ;) )

Am I a guru, I doubt it but I don't care, I'm lazy enough to stick with what I know, but not to lazy to dive into new things. (but not until I absolutely have to)

Mint: wait, what district are you using?

I find gentoo to give a very debian like experience in alot of ways, although I suppose it does use a lot of time which is what this is on about.

I only use gentoo on my laptop (where I never leave the tty) so it's not as big a deal, with the largest package being gcc.

Overall based meme.

I used Debian on my other computer and it made me happy. But not having access to the AUR was too annoying so I never switched away from EOS on my main computer. Not everything can be verified on the repo, flatpaks and their weird compartimentalized sandbox are confusing to me, and sometimes I don't wanna build shit from source.