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Penguin people for sure know theirs
And they'll tell you about it every time.
Insert GNU/ LINUX Copypasta here. To feed the meme: I use Pop!_OS btw
Does anyone really not know if they have an apple or windows device...?
I'm sure my grandma does not give a shit
Some people are very braindead you know
I don't know, it sounds a bit Linux circle-jerky to me but then again a lot of people are indeed very clueless, true!
Personally, if you can't tell me if you are running Windows or MacOS, I don't really want you downloading my software
My wife uses Arch (actually). She calls it the internet, when she really means Facebook. She knows it isn't Apple but it gets a bit vague after that!
The last time I had to fire up the Mesh Central client to sort something out on her desktop from work was around three months ago. Every couple of weeks I ssh into it, update it and schedule a reboot for 03:00.
why arch and not something with more stable updates like debian?
I've spent over 25 years with Linux. With multiple distros and a lot of that with Gentoo and Arch. At work I specify Ubuntu or Debian, for simplicity and stability. I always used to use the minimal Ubuntu, because it was tiny with no frills. For quite a few years I managed a fleet of Gentoo systems across multiple customers - with Puppet. Those have quietly gone away. I've dallied with SuSE (all varieties), Mandrake, Mandriva, RedHat, Slackware, Yggdrassil and more.
Arch is surprisingly stable and being a rolling job there are no big jumps. When I replace one of our laptops, I simply clone the old one to it and crack on. I used to do the same with Gentoo - my Gentoo laptops went from an OpenRC job with dual Nokia N95 ppp connections around 2007 to through to around 2018 with systemd and decent wifi when I switched to Arch to allow the burns on my lap to heal. I still have a Gentoo VM running (amongst friends) on the esxi in my attic.
It was installed in 2006 according to some of the kernel config files. I left it for way too long and had to use git to make Portage advance forwards in time and fix around a decade of neglect. It would have been too easy to wipe and start again. It took about a fortnight to sort out. At one point I even fixed an issue following a forum post I made myself years ago.
Anyway, Arch is pretty stable.
At one point I even fixed an issue following a forum post I made myself years ago.
I love when that happens lmao, it's the best. Thank you past me.
because Arch is more lightwheight than Debian, and also more stable than non-arch users think it is
I literally bought the wrong version of a game called Heretic on Amazon in the early 2000s because it "had a cool penguin on it" lmao
You mean, there are still websites that don't auto-detect what OS you're running and make you actually choose?
The kind of website that distributes linux stuff is going to know most linux distros ship with Firefox set up to not report OS
Does librewolf do that too? I didn't realize that was a feature of firefox
Librewolf reports as Firefox on Win 10.
Huh that's interesting, thanks
On the other hand if you have a device you don't know what OS is on there it is likely some kind of Penguin (TV, SmartFridge, Hearing system display)
There are some tech illiterate people, who use Linux without knowing it, because their child set it up for them.
Kid named Chromebook
cries in un-Linux-able chromebook (I can only do smth like crouton on it)
un-Linux-able
Damn, that should be fucking illegal
I know, it's so annoying because a WM would run so beautifully on it and then I would actually enjoy using it on campus/on the go to edit documents