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I discovered last night that my cat is a Debian fan.
edit: So far as I can tell, my cat is not a car.
Weird. Just turned 47 and I JUST tried Debian tonight.
So far it’s very good.
Get off my lawn
Lemme zoom in here just a wee bit on this here whatchycallit… Meme? Oh fiddlesticks, I don’t have me glasses… There they are… Oh! Hee hee haa haa you young fellers are drole.
I use Debian.
As a Linux Mint Debian Edition user. I guess I’m just Benjamin Button.
It me. I am Happy baby.
As a Debian user. I’ll take it. Could be worse, could be anyone of the others.
Where NixOS?
Hey I’m not that old!
I came to say excactly that.
1995 was 10 years ago right?
Absolutely. And 1980s was about 20 years ago.
Always
So feels like it.
Would be nice.
Can we pick this up again from 2005?
distro memes should be updated for 2026. i.e. with cachy,bazzite,steamos.
sparkling arch, sparkling fedora, and diet arch
Yeah. Surprisingly cachyos had the largest userbase om steam after steamos
Cachy is pretty good and just works for a lot of stuff
Cachyos is Arch for people who want to use their computers
Arch is for people who yearn to control the parasympathetic nervous system with iron chains
The funny thing is I though Arch would be lighter but after trying debian it isn’t.
What would that make Endeavor?
Not that surprising. It advertises itself as a gaming first distro and is very stable out of the box. It would be either that or bazzite for the top spot.
Bazzite surprisingly far down the list
Using steam statistics is going to bias your data toward gaming-oriented distros.
cachyos is also topdog on distrowatch, by a wide margin
Me, running CachyOS, and eschewing the socks:
Give it time…
Nah. I’m good.
Hell yeah! Programming socks are overrated.
Yes, they are.
Kneel before the barefoot-programming aristocracy!
Fedora user wearing Fedora. Might be a little on the nose.
Ummm accccctually it’s a trillby.
Ummm actually, it’s pronounced acktually
I stand corrected! :)
I wear a fedora, and I’ve used nearly any and all distros as my daily driver, except fedora.
It’s so confusing.
It’s okay. Apparently women don’t use Linux. Unless they wear socks apparently? Or is it just the men using Arch that wear the socks? Also confused.
Hats are also just super uncomfy and mess with my hair.
Does being a Linux Mint Debian Edition user make me middle-aged?
No, an old person in diapers
As always people forget glorious Nixos
I think we NixOS users get grouped in with Arch. Same socks, different colors.
The one NixOS user I know is genuinely like that lol.
And the even more glorious, guix
As a NixOS user, what are some things I would like about Guix? The webpage mostly covers features already present in NixOS, so I’m curious how they diverge.
- Superior Error handling and debugging(with Lisp REPL) thanks to Guile Scheme language.
- Guile scheme is easier to write and understand. It has a mature ecosystem of libraries and standard programming constructs (macros, recursion, higher-order functions)
- In Guix System, the package manager, the build system, and the system configuration are all written in the same language.
- No systemd, Guix system uses GNU Shepherd. You define services directly in Guile Scheme. This allows for dynamic service manipulation, hot-swapping, and introspection using the same language as the rest of the system.
- Guix home (the home manager) is built in and very easy to use if you already got the hang of Guile Scheme.
- Guix uses linux-libre, which is fully free kernel. If your hardware is not supported (likely) there is a nonguix channel to get proprietary packages to make it work.
- The standard guix repository contains only free software. Proprietary software can be installed via some other channels, but not recommended.
Thanks for the breakdown. Those are some good arguments in favor of it I hadn’t heard. Nix lang can leave some things to be desired, especially in the error handling/debugging department.
Make the transition if you feel like it. On youtube, there is a channel called System Crafters, who has various resources for understanding how to work with guix system, emacs and EmacsWM, if you are interested in the most unified operating system.
If NixOS uses systemd that’s the difference probably, my understanding is that guix is a non-systemd distro. (I am not who you replied to, just trying to help.)
I use OpenSuse, Fedora, and Arch.
This meme is too accurate
The combination of those three people in the meme would be… Interesting
So you’re a trans Fedora wearer with a triple neckbeard?
Hey, don’t blow my cover
Yes, am a literal toddler.
I always felt that the default package situation for Ubuntu was far better than Debian’s. Like, no, I don’t want to set a root password and then manually install sudo or doas after and then add myself to the relevant group and then remove the root password…
