The distro family trees are like different pantheons.
Distros are like individual gods. Community developers are priests and end-users are the commoners who pray for blessings, good fortune, and happy lives. Priests direct the prayers of commoners to their respective gods.
There is the Debian pantheon, ancient gods of peace and stillness.
The Arch pantheon, progressive gods that bring revolution along with a bit of chaos.
The Red Hat pantheon, gods tha- wtf am I writing?
If this is you’re take after your annual Xmas Magic Mushrooms trip, you need to take more shrooms
The great Umberto Eco once wrote some wonderful musings about the similarities between different then popular personal computer operating systems and different branches of Christianity. I see that’s now 30 years ago this year so now might be a good time for a repost, English translations and Italian original can be found here: https://www.simongrant.org/web/eco.html
Don’t be silly, the Linux community has never told me to hate someone just because they’re differen… Oh.
And besides, there’s no arcane practices or secret knowledg… Oh.
Carry on.
What are arch commoners pray?
We pray for pacman to deliver as he often does.
All hail to pacman!
I already knew it basically was a religion, haha
Unconditional belief in OpenSuSE supremacy, Gut für Alle!
No keep going, I like what you’re cooking.
Linux produces actual results. Linux hate is the religion.
Idk why but I love this post haha
Foss for the Foss God!
Forks for the fork throne!
I like how you realized part way through that you were typing out nonsense, and decided to post it anyway lol
Also: how high are you right now?
Hi how are you? 🤣🖖
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With Linux you’re either in hell or in heaven. With Windows you’re in purgatory. /S
No but there is an ideological basis for free software though it is firmly based on practical experiences dealing with the consequences of close source devices.
Red Hat and Ubuntu are business. Debian and Arch are communities. Some of the smaller distros are basically that one guy in Nebraska.
People promote them for various reasons. An IBM employee will have different reasons to the supporter types who latch on to a distro and mascot like it was a football team. Now football, there is a religion. Its all ritual, nothing they do has any practical use, people congregate once a week and in some parts of the world it turns violent.
When the deb users start committing genocide on the rpm users I’ll call it a religion. Until then its just a bunch of anime convention fans arguing about their favourite isekai.
The one true way is TempleOS.
It is too bad his mental health overtook him, with proper medicine that guy could have been such a much more amazing computer science dude. Although maybe the meds would have taken away his inner insight. It amazing that singled handedly he built his own OS. It is a wacky system, but still amazing
Dude sounds like he could’ve been the Phillip K. Dick of computing.
It is an incredible solo-effort, with largely simplistic features.
As a usable OS, it’s a fever-dream curiosity.
Yeah, I meant amazing that he created all that while struggling with schizophrenia, I can only imageline the accomplishments if he was well.
Monotheism finds a way.
Linus is God’s god.
!unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org
this pretty much… i think. I still don’t fully grasp unix surrealism
Some evenings, when a piece of code I wrote compiles on the first try and it all seems so straightforward and simple, I feel blessed by the Spirit of the Machine.
Me neither, but I do enjoy it
