• dismay3915@lemmy.world
    14·
    3 days ago

    Debian is more like a honda accord or toyota prius.

    Reliable, and only real car guys know they’re cool.

  • ian@feddit.ukEnglish
    91·
    3 days ago

    Newbie: Hi I just want a distro to go shopping and for family tasks.

    Mechanic: You want a racing car. Lift the hood and I’ll show you how to operate all the adjustments. Racing cars need lots of tuning and youll need wide tyres too.

    Newbie: Can’t I just drive to the shops?

    Mechanic: But you need to learn under the hood first. That’s what Linux is all about.

    Newbie: there is also no room for shopping in this racing car.

    Mechanic: there is if it’s just text files. Don’t bother with all that jpeg and binary bloat.

    Newbie: You know, as much as I hate Windows, either I didn’t need a mechanic, or got one who didn’t insist open the hood to operate it.

    • presoak@lazysoci.al
      3·
      2 days ago

      I installed Debian Linux for several computer-illiterate old ladies. They never had to look under the hood. They are very happy with it.

      • ian@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Yes. They shouldn’t need to. Sadly some think everyone should.

  • Cellari@lemmy.world
    6·
    3 days ago

    Kind of you to assume Arch Linux is going to tell you what the outcome is going to look like :D

    • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      I wonder if the job requirements for that role are really strict, or really relaxed.

      Like, “you must have 10+ years experience cycling, live in the Vatican, be a Catholic, and know CQC to a deadly degree”… or… “be Nunzio’s neighbours boy and be willing to wear a dress.”

      • merc@sh.itjust.works
        8·
        4 days ago

        Interesting game, but they seemed to intentionally make it as anti-fun as possible. Assembling the car was cool. But, everything you had to do to get the car parts, keep yourself alive, etc. was pretty tedious.

    • JATth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      4 days ago

      Holy fuck this made me laugh my ass off. (btw, if make any videos My Winter Car I’ll be watching because that is an accurate description of my life at the moment.)

  • Greyscale@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    82·
    5 days ago

    Arch is kinda more like looking at a catalogue of parts.

    Endevour is the same catalogue of parts, but with a flier inserted with a “recommmended loadout” where you can just check some boxes and get whatever it was you wanted, but the doors there to sawzall the trunk off and attach a cargo box if you want.

  • regenwetter@piefed.socialEnglish
    73·
    5 days ago

    Debian should be a small truck (i.e. one that’s actually used for cargo, not as a penis prosthetic), and the bottom right is clearly Gentoo!

    • BastingChemina@slrpnk.net
      18·
      4 days ago

      Who wouldn’t want to have their car assembled automatically beton scratch from scratch each time they need it ?

      • kautau@lemmy.world
        6·
        4 days ago

        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

        • BastingChemina@slrpnk.net
          5·
          4 days ago

          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.
          • kautau@lemmy.world
            1·
            4 days ago

            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)

            • Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de
              2·
              4 days ago

              More like the car changes parts around the user space. You still have the driver and baggage (files) intact inside the car.

              Alternatively, you build a new car and teleport all of the inside of the car there, teleport the car to wherever the old one was and keep going from there.

        • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          4 days ago

          I meam on boot it does do quite a lot of stuff and there are people who run nixos setups that basically erase everything and then relink the nix store to your root when you boot. Even tho i like nixos thats a bit too far for me. I use nixos like its an immutable distro where i build the image.

    • EldritchFemininity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      3 days ago

      I dunno, my first thought for Bazzite after switching from Windows a couple of months ago was more like this:

      And immutable distros in general would be like this:

      Faster by far than getting stuck in Windows traffic and It Just Works™ to get you where you want to go, but it’s more difficult to go off the beaten path.

      • merc@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        2 days ago

        I’m a huge fan of immutable distros, but I’m not sure they’re mass transit.

        Maybe:

        Limousine

        It gets you where you want to go, but you don’t have to handle the toil of dealing with traffic.

        • EldritchFemininity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          1·
          2 days ago

          My reason for the bullet train and subway in particular is the nature of being on tracks as well as avoiding traffic (Windows bloat in my use of the concept).

          Great for the average user because they don’t have to really understand any of the systems involved or anything, just pick a stop and off it goes, but if you try to go off the beaten path at all, you’ll probably find yourself having to work around the immutable nature pretty quickly. You can’t just go anywhere with it like you would a car.

          There’s a program that I had installed that for some stupid reason doesn’t let you log out on the Linux version and it auto logins as well, so if you log into the wrong account like I did when I installed it, you have to delete the user data from it. In Bazzite, it turns out that you can’t just go into the folder and do it manually, you have to use a specific application that comes with Bazzite to delete user data from an application. A minor annoyance, but I did have to go off the rails a little to solve the issue compared to how I would’ve handled it on Windows.