Luigi (with Linux Mint logo) and Mario (Ubuntu logo) come in

Mother: It’s-a the Ubuntu Bros!

Linux Mint (Luigi): Mama why-a you never remember my name?

Mother: I’m-a sorry Green Ubuntu

    • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Here comes Arch Linux with the parts for a steel chair! Now they’re pulling out the instructions for putting it together! Uh oh, the instructions say what kind of bolts they need, but not how many! Arch is trying to fit it all together anyway! Hmm, looks like some of the assembly steps are missing… ok, Arch has got something that looks like a chair constructed… now they’re going to test it by sitting down… oh, and the chair frame has held together but the seat has fallen off. Arch forgot about not breaking user space again!

      • shadowfenix@lemmy.oneEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        And now here comes Gentoo with a… a coal forge? Oh my God he’s forging a steel chair from a metal blank! But what’s this? Hes pulling out a smaller forge to forge a hammer for the bigger forge! The humanity!

        • bruhduh@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          And now here comes Debian, he enters the room and sits on chair that was there for few years already, and sits there for the next few years

          • Agent641@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 year ago

            And oh my god, here comes Windows with a steel chair! Its a fine chair that almost anyone can sit in, as long as its updated regularly and paid for, or else they take off two of the legs. She whacks you with it, but only with the long end of the chair by default, which really stings. If you prefer to be hit with the flat of the chair, she desperately tries to convince you that being hit with the Edge is better.

          • mkwt@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            The bit about the small forge forging a forge is skewering the Gentoo concept of toolchain bootstrapping.

            Problem: how can you claim to have compiled the entire system on your own local machine if you need a compiler to compile a compiler? Where do you get that compiler from?

            Solution: Use an external compiler to compile a compiler. Then use that compiler that you just compiled to compile itself again. Then use that second compiler to recompile the rest of the system.

          • CountVon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I briefly experimented with it ages ago. And I mean ages ago, like 20+ years ago. Maybe it’s changed somewhat since then, but my understanding is that Gentoo doesn’t provide binary packages. Everything gets compiled from source using exactly the options you want and compiled exactly for your hardware. That’s great and all but it has two big downsides:

            • Most users don’t need or even want to specify every compile option. The number of compile options to wade through for some packages (e.g. the kernel) is incredibly long, and many won’t be applicable to your particular setup.
            • The benefits of compiling specifically for your system are likely questionable, and the amount of time it takes to compile can be long depending on your hardware. Bear in mind I was compiling on a Pentium 2 at the time, so this may be a lot less relevant to modern systems. I think it took me something like 12 hours to do the first-time compile when I installed Gentoo, and then some mistake I made in the configuration made me want to reinstall and I just wasn’t willing to sit through that again.
            • psud@aussie.zone
              2·
              11 months ago

              Compiling your own kernel was often useful or even necessary back in the day. I think it was the only package I regularly compiled for myself back then, and I think I was on red hat

  • cameron_vale@lemm.ee
    3·
    1 year ago

    Why does anybody use ubuntu etc when they could use debian?

    It comes with like 6 desktops right in the installation. And there are another 20 more available too.

    And ubuntu etc is just debian with a fancy desktop, right?

    And debian is fast, lightweight and stable as heck. Don’t they use it on the spaceshuttle?

      • Cowbee@lemm.ee
        3·
        11 months ago

        Because it’s an easy transition to Linux, which is beneficial in numerous ways. If you’re gatekeeping Linux distros, you can kindly leave normal people alone.

      • psud@aussie.zone
        1·
        11 months ago

        Because once one works out that it’s as easy to I use and does everything they need, it’s a lot more expandable and configurable and a lot less advertising intensive than actual windows

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Manjaro is…. I’m trying to figure out what’s wrong with it. Arch? Yeah… you like… have to do stuff…

    • blind3rdeye@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      Good to hear! My main computer is my desktop, running Mint. (I’m using it right now.) But I also have a Surface Pro 4 that I use for work. It has no problems and works fine on Windows… but I have been wondering if I can move that away from Windows as well. So its encouraging to hear that it has worked for you.

      Does Mint have good support for the stylus and touch-screen on the Surface 4? (I imagine the Surface tech might be specialised to Windows a bit, so I wouldn’t be confident those would work immediately in Linux.)