• Bluewing@lemmy.world
      1·
      15 hours ago

      Ubuntu Server LTS on my first-ever server. I’mma green rook at this. I’m amazed at how quickly and easily Casa was to get up and running on an old laptop.

      I still got a long ways to go before I can try Debian for a server.

  • Denixen@feddit.nu
    18·
    23 hours ago

    I would answer debian, but I want her to say arch.

    I want my girlfriend to be smarter than me ok!?

  • Bluewing@lemmy.world
    2·
    15 hours ago

    She best answer Kinonite. Easy effort, and it’s as fresh as we need. Leaving plenty of time to make sweet, sweet love. (cue Barry White soundtrack)

  • atk007@lemmy.world
    4·
    20 hours ago

    This hurts because Debian is named after a couple (Debra Lynn and Ian Murdock) who got married and divorced and Ian passed away. Going with Debian is a lifetime of hurt.

    On the other hand Arch girls are described in Rick James’s song “Superfreak”.

    • ajikeshi@lemmy.world
      3·
      16 hours ago

      and yet… their names are immortalized… it wouldnt surprise me if debian is still around in 50 years

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
    41·
    19 hours ago

    Arch. I’m still having nightmares from trying to install up to date versions of user-space software onto Debian in 2008-ish, usually leading to having to compile it from source, usually leading to having many compiler errors due to make and GCC being quite a few versions behind. All the help I got in those days through forums are links to WinXP ISO torrents, and telling me that to stop ruining their “hobby OS”.

      • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
        8·
        20 hours ago

        That’s all it takes to be a distro slut!?

        What the heck am I then?

        %brl list -v
artix
bedrock
ceres -> devuan-ceres
devuan -> devuan-ceres
devuan-ceres
devuan-ceres-new
devuan-chimaera
devuan-testing -> devuan-chimaera
devuan-unstable -> devuan-ceres
exherbo
fartix
fentoo
fexherbo
garyos
gentoo
gentoostudio
goblin
gs -> gentoostudio
hijacked -> gentoo
init -> gentoo
jentoo
kentoo
kentwo
local -> gentoostudio
marklar
oasis
pclinuxos
space
suckless
tentoo
tudio -> gentoostudio
ubuntu
void
void-kde

        And that’s just one of my computers.

        [… it’s starting to make sense, thinking about one thing I made, I called wminizer]

          • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
            2·
            16 hours ago

            What the heck am I then?

            A container slut.

            ???

            But… there are zero containers on any of my systems.

        • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
          1·
          18 hours ago

          Actually, looking at that list again, I see I’ve neglected upgrading on that computer for longer than I realised… chimaera as testing? *checks site*, yeah that’s “Chimaera 4.0 has moved to oldoldstable status.”. That’s like 4 versions old. XD

    • DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.ml
      9·
      2 days ago

      This is the way! Everything is based on Arch, Debian or Fedora anyway so you might as well stick to what is well known and supported.

            • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
              3·
              20 hours ago

              Interesting graphs.

              Alas, the metric’s a mite confounded by the different ways distros split up packages. So it skews e.g. the Debians up, and the voidlinuxen down.

              … I’m guessing that still wouldn’t be enough to put a dent in AUR and nixpkg 's towering package counts though.

            • BladeFederation@piefed.socialEnglish
              1·
              1 day ago

              That is very surprising, last I heard it had to catch up with having popular applications. Is this due to how package dependencies differ on Nix vs what people think of traditionally as packages?

              • smiletolerantly@awful.systems
                2·
                1 day ago

                Not really. (When was last time?)

                The reason is more that the config language that you have to learn if you want to use NixOS is the exact same you use to package applications for NixOS.

                So any user is also just a tiny, non-intimidating step away from being a contributor and package maintainer.

                I know for myself, I never packaged for the AUR - just seemed way to intimidating and a lot of new stuff to figure out - but I maintain a bunch of packages and modules in nixpkgs, and they’re all stuff that was “huh, this is cool but not packaged yet; alright, I’ll package it in my private config; oh that was easy, let’s upstream it”.

                • BladeFederation@piefed.socialEnglish
                  2·
                  1 day ago

                  Couldn’t even tell you tbh.

                  Well that’s pretty cool. I always liked the idea of being mega reproducible. I might try it on my home server instead of Debian.

        • DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.ml
          2·
          2 days ago

          well known and supported 🤪

          From my understanding NixOS and Gentoo is “support it yourself”. I haven’t tried either of them so I could be completely wrong about that.

          • TwilightKiddy@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            It’s pretty much the same thing as everywhere, you have a bunch of lovely people who package and test things, nothing too weird. What you are describing is LFS.

            • DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.ml
              1·
              1 day ago

              I was under the impression that you had to compile everything yourself on Gentoo and in Nix that you have to mess with a config to do everything and anything.

              Maybe I should try them both to see what the fuzz is about.

              • TwilightKiddy@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish
                2·
                1 day ago

                Speaking about Gentoo, you don’t “have to” compile everything, but let’s just say it’s strongly encouraged. Most of the compilation is automated though, think AUR on steroids. If you don’t want to touch anything, you can go with defaults for all the software and you’ll get basically what you get on any other distro.

                The thing is, though, if you are not being a little funny with your software, why the hell are you running Gentoo? So, it’s entirely optional, but it’s the main reason one would use Gentoo, otherwise you get a stock standard system with stupidly long updates.

                I can’t speak for Nix, though, I haven’t touched it myself, but from what I know from those around me running it, it’s pretty much the same thing, unless you want something cool, you don’t have to suffer.

                • DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.ml
                  2·
                  1 day ago

                  Okey thank you so much for the information! I can see the appeal. More freedom and customization. I am all for it.

                  But for my use cases I think Arch is enough. It strikes a nice balance with official packages and the AUR and I love that you get to choose all of the packages you want to have installed.

  • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    2·
    20 hours ago

    Is this like asking if looking for a fling or a long term relationship?

  • Björn@swg-empire.de
    482·
    2 days ago

    She’s just baffled that anyone who knows those two distributions could be so dense as to whittle down the vast infinite sea of possible options to just two incredibly boring ones. She would have cried next if he hadn’t done it.

    Also, OpenSUSE.

    • ☭SaltyIcetea☭@lemmy.ml
      19·
      2 days ago

      well the vast majority of those are just arch and debian with extra steps, with the occasional fedora based or independent distro

    • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Yep. Should be “Windows or Linux?”

      I know part of the joke is that it’s not this comparison--that asking “arch or debian” also rules out Windows--but it really is the important dividing line.

      • Funkt4st1c@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        1 day ago

        “Hammer to penis or steak” is less interesting than “Steak or lobster”

        Anyways the answer is Steak, and a different steak if its for a server, and lobster (derogatory) if its for an important server