lol, the Unix wars turned into the distro wars and soon to be the package management wars. Thankfully we don't see a lot of that on here.

Quoting: Highballlol, the Unix wars turned into the distro wars and soon to be the package management wars. Thankfully we don't see a lot of that on here.

I've seen similar here on the Discord server before when talking about using FreeBSD too. Typical "Why would you use that?" nonsense. Open source is open source. It's too late in the day for there being beef or bickering over what people use. That shit was old and annoying on IRC (Freenode) back in the day, but nowadays it's just sad and depressing. 🙄

Nuh-uh! My distro is the best one. Actually, this one. No, that one. Augh.

Quoting: Highballlol, the Unix wars turned into the distro wars and soon to be the package management wars. Thankfully we don't see a lot of that on here.

& those were commercial products; so you could see why it would be in someone's very concrete and obvious commercial interests as to why they'd promote that version against any other.

With distro wars, text editor wars, programming language wars etc., there's no such readily discernible rationale. It's an ill-informed BS shouting contest and nothing more.

... and it gets really silly when supposedly well-informed people *rationalize* their gut feelings into supposedly knock-out explanations as to why the other side is stupid, confused, ignorant, etc. The way the 'other side' is depicted in such rationalizations always reminds me of those comically clumsy black-white 'before' segments in 'infomercials'.

Quoting: Liam DaweThis might be the funniest meme I've ever made, not sure I can top this one

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Where can one read this curious pamphlet? I got an impression it's not JUST the cover

Could make an entire series on this. Have a book for distros, another for init systems, another for package managers, another for desktop environment, etc. The only thing that we may all be able to agree on is that we love to argue.

That's not true at all!

Quoting: Highballlol, the Unix wars turned into the distro wars and soon to be the package management wars. Thankfully we don't see a lot of that on here.

Portage is clearly the winner in package managers. You can choose to either install from a binary, or compile yourself, it has possibly one of the best dependency resolvers, allows you to add your own patches to programs, allows you to install multiple versions of the same application in different slots, etc etc. It's possibly one of the best package managers I've ever used. I fell in love with it immediately.

There is no better choice.

Quoting: dziadulewiczWhere can one read this curious pamphlet? I got an impression it's not JUST the cover

If you join... the other Linux Discord... you'll get all the abuse you never wanted. Pro tip: don't go there, it's a silly place.
Join the GOL Discord instead for good vibes.

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Quoting: dziadulewiczWhere can one read this curious pamphlet? I got an impression it's not JUST the cover

If you join... the other Linux Discord... you'll get all the abuse you never wanted. Pro tip: don't go there, it's a silly place.
Join the GOL Discord instead for good vibes.

Discord!? Would love a GOL Matrix though.

Quoting: dziadulewiczWould love a GOL Matrix though.

We tried that. The amount of hateful little shithead people was endless and it just wasn't worth anyones time or effort. Matrix is dead and the (ab)users murdered it.

Discord is at least manageable to some degree, despite its flaws. We foster a healthy slice of the GOL community there, give it a chance. There's also IRC, and a couple other places if you prefer. Links in the bar at the bottom of the site or click on Contact Us at the top.