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My two brain cells are happy with a program that doesn’t take a degree to operate when I just need to ~~break~~ edit my fstab or some config files
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2026
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I don't get Vim, at all. If I have to sit down and study it how efficent is it really? I am a fan of Vim inspired software though. Qutebrowser was really nice.
The popularity of NixOS is based on sunk-cost fallacy as a result of learning Nix.
I use NixOS, btw.
Oof. This hurt my soul. I tell myself it’s worth it “for the reproducibility”
- i don’t care
- i don’t care
- i don't care
- i don’t care
- i don’t care
use what you like and fits your needs.
Massive fail. I don't feel triggered at all.
I agree with all of the above.
A man of culture.
Me too (whether Linux is an OS depends on how you define the term) and that's why it's such a silly post to make. If there weren't anyone who thought KDE was better than GNOME, why would KDE still exist?
Debian KDE is better in most cases than Arch
Gentoo is better than any other distribution
That’s actually true!
There is nothing wrong with using Ubuntu.
How- How dare you‽
Snap is not bad. (Only the way Canonical forces its usage and ignoring Flatpak is bad.)
Is it Shitpost Saturday already?
What a coincidence. I didn't know Saturday was reserved for shitposts.
It is now.
Ubuntu is more popular than Debian for a reason.
Corporate-driven > community-driven distros
Flathub is crap
Snap is double crap
Docker would be useful if the networking wasn't triple crap
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yes
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yes
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only if your hardware agrees and you can do without some features
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as just an init system: no, but you get a much more complete package
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who cares?
- agree
- disagree
- agree
- disagree
- don't really have a strong opinion on it one way or the other i guess
(I use GNU Guix + GNU Emacs btw)
Yes! GNU Shepherd >>> systemd, it's older, wiser, and unbloated.
X11 is still my favorite though, no particular reason.
- they both suck in different areas and excell in others
- Vim is only useful when SSH-ing into an embedded device. Emacs can't even do that. So I agree...
- Tautology
- Tautology
- Yes, but you still need C in a handful of situations
Adding:
- All Unix style shells suck, and the shell should not be based on human readable text, but on serializable objects like in powershell
- The kernel should support windows style acls
Agree
Agree
Agree
Don't know, I haven't tried them all
I suppose it's safer, but being old fashioned, I prefer C
You can have all the opinions you want. In the end, the ecosystem (Linux is an ecosystem, not an OS) evolves by people with different drives trying different things, some aspects are successful and are kept, some are developed for a while and dropped, some are brilliant but never reach critical mass.
It's a somewhat chaotic mix of engineering and tinkering that ultimately works while embracing widely opposing opinions. This quirky nature provides it with strength and flexibility.
Bottom line: we need strong opinions and people who act on those opinions to build the vision they want.
Find me a guy with a master's degree in jazz guitar writing music on Vim & I'll agree on the emacs point...
spoiler
Excellent bait
- The year of Linux will never happen!
- Using flatpaks is the wrong way, only Appimages should exist
Never before have been truer words spoken.
CLI is better than GUI
Keyboard is better than mouse (and don't even mention touch interfaces)
Run your main computer headless and SSH in from a thin client
(Not my actual opinions, don't SWAT me)
- Yes.
- Micro is better than both.
- Maybe it is, I dunno.
- Don't care.
- Don't care.