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If anyone wants to call Debian an "old man distro", that's fine with me. But I get to pick the old man
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(That's Dick Van Dyke living it up at 99)
this post was submitted on 01 Dec 2024
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Debian is that one guy on a construction site who, despite doing as little as possible each day, somehow is the only thing keeping the company functional.
Debian is like 50s electric tools, not as effective as new ones, but will outlast everyone and everything
inherited from my granddad, it's been from his garage (shop) since the 60s, and it's now forming 3D printed parts in my flat.
Precisely
We have found him: Debian Sid.
He's lookin' kinda unstable.
Interesting note: Dick Van Dyke was a big Amiga user back in the day.
TIL. Nice!
Fun fact: Ian Murdock released Debian when he was 20 years old.
Fun fact: every old man was 20 years old at one time
Except Colombians. According to a running joke a couple friends and I have had going since watching formula 1 decades ago, Columbian men spontaneously appear at age 27.
Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
Monopoly Man was born old.
Ian Murdock was 20 when he released Debian, it is too late, chasing career is not worth it
People should find a better foundation for self-esteem than hating linux distros. They're mostly ok, and without debian Linux wouldn't be what it is today
Preferring a certain distro is fine but why care if others like something else?
Never thought that a 99 years old Dick pic would make me smile...
Eh, they also call Mint a noob distro. I'm not dealing with Arch or smth on my work machine. Screw that Mint is perfect.
There is nothing wrong with using things that "just work" when you need them to.
Same reason people buy Toyota and Honda.
My life has enough chaos to handle, without starting my day faffing with Arch for no good reason.
Well said. Also a Honda and Toyota owner here :). When I started learning Linux there was so much hype around Arch...I installed it and then Meh pretty much like any other Linux, except things weren't tweaked to function as a cohesive whole. Arch people complaining about btrfs filling drive, or nVidia issues. So I went back to OpenSUSE Leap. It works. Btrfs snapshotting built in to any time you alter system, backend chronjobs for balance and cleanup. nVidia driver hosted directly by nVidia and specific for OpenSUSE. Why would I want life on hard mode.
i'm an absolute beginner, and will install Garuda (arch-based) on my next computer. I also used Tumbleweed, it is pretty good. It was my first linux experience and found it manageable
He looks pretty young for a 99 year old. Would have put him at early 80s.
He's not 99 for another couple weeks, but when you're pushing 100, you get to round up a little as long as you don't round above the 100 mark lol.
I hear that particular 2 weeks is all the difference
It was for Betty White :(
Omg lol
It's not a Linux party without old Dick!
I vote we change the definition of a "Van Dyke" to this glorious snowy beardage.
I started calling it "Grandma Debian" for some reason.
... I say this as a Debian user after new versions of Mint failed to accurately detect my RAID size. I tried Ubuntu for giggles, same problem, but Grandma Debian worked perfect out of the box.
To be fair, it is a software RAID in the BIOS and those are known to be odd.
I still don't get why my laptop shipped with BIOS raid enabled.
It only has one drive!
You must get old but you are not required to mature.
I like "growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional."
Obviously that's just restating your comment and I'm not trying to diminish your version in any way. This is just the way I heard it and I wanted to share.
if debian is the old man, what does that make patrick and slackware?
Real life Benjamin Button.
He looks like Uncle Sam but fun
Lol, he kinda does, doesn't he?
I thought that was Terry Pratchett at first for some reason and was sorely disappointed π
GNU Terry Pratchett πΏ
Kids donβt understand the issues Ubuntu had early on. Especially when you had limited resources on the system, Debian was olβ reliable for so long.
But yeah, Iβve regretted the past couple Debian installs I did. Its time has passed.
I like Debian. So many Debian/Ubuntu based distros, trying to improve upon it, but I think its great as it is.
Agreed.
And I don't have to worry about apt-get installing stub packages for snaps like other Debian-derived distros (which often use Ubuntu repos).
Mx Linux is the old man distro to me
I think the old man is Ian.