• ian@feddit.ukEnglish
    91·
    1 day 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
      2·
      8 hours 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.

  • dismay3915@lemmy.world
    11·
    1 day ago

    Debian is more like a honda accord or toyota prius.

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

  • Cellari@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 day ago

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

  • collapse_already@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    My eleven year old laptop is running Kubuntu. I think it might be a Camry (absent the insanely dominant popularity).

    • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
      4·
      2 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·
        3 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·
      3 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.)

  • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org
    5·
    2 days ago

    Which one is GNU Guix?

    Guix is enthusiastic, principled, lean, very reliable, it is rolling release, completely defined and automatically built from source, but with cached binary standard packages. You have something like Python’s virtual environments in a terminal/shell, but with any distro package, and you can go back to any old version.

    • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      You also have to pray that your wifi works if using the default libre kernel. I’d liken it to a VW Beetle with a V12 engine swapped in to get it to run

  • Greyscale@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    76·
    3 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.

    • BastingChemina@slrpnk.net
      18·
      3 days ago

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

      • kautau@lemmy.world
        5·
        3 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·
          3 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·
            3 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
              1·
              2 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
          0·
          2 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.