• Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
    72·
    2 months ago

    Having Ubuntu with the big bucks instead of Red Hat is mental, given that Canonical made 12M on 250M revenue in 2023 while Red Hat made 434M on 3.4B in 2018. I’m citing these years because that’s what’s available in Wikipedia. Red Hat is probably more profitable today under IBM. Kinda goes to show the general unawareness of the Linux corporate landscape around here. :D

    • shoki@lemmy.world
      131·
      2 months ago

      I think I would still recommend this distro today because imho it’s very usable if you’ve never used linux before and it is in my experience very stable and compatible

      (although i use arch now btw, i would probably never recommend it as a beginner distro)

      • Kroxx@lemm.ee
        7·
        2 months ago

        I switched to mint 2ish months ago and a friend of mine switched to fedora at the same time. Both new from windows, I have had no issues with mint but he has now switched to Debian cause he was having issues getting discord to work properly.

        OOTB experience with mint is it works, it kinda feels like cheating having a distro that works easily without tinkering. Like I don’t feel like a real Linux user haha, but I would 100% recommend it.

        The meme is very accurate imo, the text would definitely be “hello fellow linux users!” instead of youths haha!

  • _____@lemm.eeEnglish
    38·
    2 months ago

    My OS (chad wojak, very ripped and cool)

    Your OS (stinky hairless wojak who is not ripped or cool)

    • overflowingmemory@links.hackliberty.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      lmao my etc/nixos/configuration.nix file is a mess, I have a huge list of programs and programming languages I use in packages = with pkgs; [ .... no flakes no modules… so the meme does not check out for me… but at least I got i3-window manager working using the wiki

  • Mikelius@lemmy.ml
    19·
    2 months ago

    As a Gentoo user, I can confirm I started from sticks and rocks. I’m now in the space age though because of the customizability and performance boosts, so image is a little dated.

    • reinei@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      Also that’s literally Sir Primitive Technology on that picture, so you had nothing to worry about even from the start!

    • Wilzax@lemmy.world
      12·
      2 months ago

      It’s not about Arch itself being a unique choice, it’s about how Arch looks very different from user to user because they not only had the option but the requirement to install nearly everything but the Kernel themselves.

      The result is that no two Arch users end up with the same OS, just the same kernel and package manager.

      • superkret@feddit.org
        112·
        2 months ago

        90% of Arch users run the exact same installation you get when you copy-paste the example commands from the installation guide without diving into linked pages, then add a user with default groups and install Gnome.

        • Wilzax@lemmy.world
          6·
          2 months ago

          While I don’t think it’s as high as 90% of users, I admit I didn’t think about people who would subject themselves to Arch just to not take advantage of what Arch has to offer.

          (But seriously, why would anyone choose to do this when they can just install Mint)

          • probableprotogen@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            3·
            2 months ago

            Rolling releases and very “vanilla” packages. I get the upstream configurations with very few changes, making it better imo to modify and rice into what I want.

          • Sestren@lemmy.world
            1·
            2 months ago

            Rolling releases for issues with newer hardware and the AUR. That’s really all there is to it. There are plenty of ways to be “unique”, but at the the of the day, nobody else is ever really going to care.

            If I bought myself a 6 year old Thinkpad, I’d put Mint over Arch on it in a heartbeat. For the desktop that’s constantly upgrading, it gets Arch because it has the fastest releases and biggest community to troubleshoot stuff.

    • exu@feditown.comEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      If you use Arch you’re either a neckbeard or a femboy. No in between

      I use Arch btw

    • _____@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      I have met 3 arch users irl.

      One was a hacker man kid (unironically one of the best developers I’ve met), messy hair, hoodie but other wise a regular kid.

      One was his friend, jock kind of kid. Not necessarily good at programming but he did program and was enthusiastic about it.

      Another is a CS major, 6ft tall and fit. Not much else to say about him. He studies CS, you can infer whatever else you want.

      And obviously me (btw), not that I’ve met myself.

  • devilish666@lemmy.world
    15·
    2 months ago

    Kali linux actually have purpose to teach how to do pentesting not actual tools for pentesting nowadays because in my perspective almost all tools in Kali Linux already in abandoneware or EOL since the tools it self almost never got updated (and still used Python 2.7).
    My friends that works as pentesting said to me Learn kali or BlackArch to grasp thing about pentesting, once you already mastered it you create your own tools because different target requires different tools & every pentester & hacker has its own tools that we made ourselves