Hey, some of us are nyarch users - that’s rainbow on both sides
Some people put so much time and energy in this kind of stuff. Imagine we could harvest this level of motivation from everyone and put it at the service of the sustainable transition, we would have stopped global warming at the +1.5⁰C mark.
Fedora (users?)
(And yes, I know that’s technically a trilby, shut up)
You’d think but here’s a picture of a Fedora user.
I don’t get it (Jesus, What have I started ?)
Arch, a community-driven distro that hostorically required heavy use of the terminal to even install. It presents itself as very sleek and utilitarian (hence plain black girl). Arch users tend toward enthusiasts also commonly in the anime, furry etc. fandoms. Wearers of “Programming socks” almost certainly use arch (hence rainbow girl).
Ubuntu was historically marketed as the distro for everyone. Ready out of the box, polished GUI, media codecs, marketing materials made by someone who got paid to do them (hence rainbow girl). Ubuntu these days is an exceedingly corporate distro, Canonical really wants to be Microsoft. Ubuntu is very commonly used on servers for commercial and enterprise solutions and end-user desktops are vestigial at this point (hence plain black girl).
Fortunately this is wrong. They invest quite a bit into their desktop releases. They even have a small team that tests the Steam snap alone to make sure it works.
The recent addition of triple buffering into GNOME was a contribution of an an Ubuntu engineer. And if you look at the sponsor pages of projects like KDE you will see Canonical. I think they very much care, they just don’t fold under pressure from comment sections.
Arch is hard to install, hard to configure, and hard to use, because it requires cryptic commandline knowledge at every step.
People who use Arch generally know very well what they are doing, so their system works with no issues, which they never forget to mention in every conversation.
Ubuntu is a novice-friendly Linux distribution, but since the majority of it’s users are novices or Windows 11 refugees, they generate a lot of complaints on forums.
Arch being hard to install and configure hasn’t really been true since
archinstallmatured enough for regular use.Especially not since EndeavorOS.
Endeavour is nice, I use it on my main PC because some of their util scripts are nice to have. Arch itself just is not much harder to install these days with the current installer.
Hey now, thats not fair…
My chair is black, too.
I love Debian for its stability, but I hate Debian because I can’t get anything to ever work on it properly.
It is stably non-functional 🤡👍
This is a feature to me. I can fix issues and document workarounds, knowing that once it works it will probably continue to work until next release. With rolling or faster moving distros, every day is “I wonder if anything will break today with an update.”
That’s the whole point of stable distros, but people can’t distinguish “stable” from “reliable” so we get comments like “arch is really stable”.
