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I wonder what centOS would be like? Somthing out of commission, but remembered fondly even though it was anything but special or elegant. But it worked. And if not you could fix it easily. Maybe a trabant?
TempleOS.
Those 60s classic cars, though iconic, relied on a very different planned lifespan compared to modern cars. It was much shorter than the cars of today.
A better analogy for Debian would probably be an older Honda Civic model. It’s older and lacks many flashy or hyper-modern features, but it’s reliable, maintainable, and actively supported.
This makes arch look pretty good.
there’s a joke about drivers in here somewhere
Drive -fwd
Sudo drive -fwd
Drive -left
Drive -stop
Drive -brake
Sudp drive -brake
Udo drive -brake
Sudo dribe -brake
F U C K
This comment made me realize I haven’t installed thefuck on my most recent linux installation. I have evolved past the point of making common mistakes.
What’s thefuck?
I wouldn’t say that arch is nearly like that. Maybe you have to put on the doors and hood yourself or something maybe…
It’s like a kit car. It comes with the chassis and engine all intact, technically street-legal. You just get to decide whether you want windshields and doors, which some people consider pretty obvious and too much of a hassle to pretend they’re “optional”
Hey! Gears changed by jamming a galvanized square steel pole into the floor is WAY more optimal than having a gear stick. Reduces weight, I may change gears often, but it’s not EVERY time.
(I do have the gear stick on anyways in case I forget how to use the steel pole properly, but that’s not the point!)
i’d personally liken it more to one of those flat pack jeeps. with a little technical know-how you can get something decently barebones going, of course with ample opportunity for fun!!
kit cars do vary, and there are some that would fit this pretty well, but i’d say much of them are like linux from scratch if anything.
you get a list of parts and stuff, and some instructions on putting it together, but at the end of the day (realistically past that and into the early morning in my experience with LFS :3) the builder is much relied on for the actual customization and patching of everything together!
Interestingly, mint is what I daily drive as my distro and the car for it is what I prefer in terms of driving daily (I love me a hatchback).
However, Debian is a distro I would drive more often if it were more practical, and that car is my favorite ever that I wish I could have on a practical level
Then this is Windows 10/11:
Btw, it got stuck in Antarctica.
Windows:
I’d also accept that car Homer designed. Or a cyber truck.
NGL, I think this is really freaking cool…
Too bad it runs Windows (by default)
That’s not Windows, that’s Oracle Solaris right there.
Do not utter the cursed one’s name in vain!
Damn Small Linux:
I was expecting a pair of flip flops. :)
EDIT: oo, maybe one of those motor-unicycles!
Is there a motorized roller skate?
openSUSE
Tiny Core Linux(/Alpine/Void/etc)
OpenWrt
and they are each all awesome in their own right :)
Slackware:
NixOS:
Who wouldn’t want to have their car assembled automatically
beton scratchfrom scratch each time they need it ?I’m unsure if this is satire, but you don’t rebuild a NixOS system every time you boot or SSH into it or something. It’s sort of like the Arch “assemble your own vehicle how you want” image except it allows you to do so on new hardware declaratively. Like having dotfiles for the entire operating system configuration that are processed by the OS itself. Also really nice for unattended remote installation with https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-anywhere
I love nixos, it’s been my daily driver for the last 3 years for work and home.
A more accurate metaphor would be:
- When modding the car, with a arch, Debian of most other distros you actually mod the car. If you want to change the seats you physically install new seats.
- With nixos you don’t intervene directly on the car, you change the blueprint of the car and let the robot reassemble the car according to the blueprint.
Yeah that’s true, it’s more like changing the car builds a new car every time in case you want to go back to an old one (or eventually prune/gc and say good bye to the old cars lol)
beton scratch
🤔
There was this show, with a vintage cottage car in dumb, beton floor & walls and all…
Mint looks about right, I rented a car much like that one and explored Greece from the south all the way to the northern mountains and loved every minute of it. Just like my last six or seven years of exclusive Linux use.
Use what makes you happy people, it’s not a persona.
