• tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
      4·
      6 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.”

  • dismay3915@lemmy.world
    15·
    6 days ago

    Debian is more like a honda accord or toyota prius.

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

  • ian@feddit.ukEnglish
    91·
    5 days 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
      3·
      4 days 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.

      • ian@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        4 days ago

        Yes. They shouldn’t need to. Sadly some think everyone should.

  • Cellari@lemmy.world
    6·
    5 days ago

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

  • Agent641@lemmy.world
    19·
    7 days ago

    Drive -fwd

    Sudo drive -fwd

    Drive -left

    Drive -stop

    Drive -brake

    Sudp drive -brake

    Udo drive -brake

    Sudo dribe -brake

    F U C K

  • m0stlyharmless@lemmy.zip
    151·
    7 days ago

    Those 60s classic cars, though iconic, relied on a very different planned lifespan compared to modern cars. It was much shorter than the cars of today.

    A better analogy for Debian would probably be an older Honda Civic model. It’s older and lacks many flashy or hyper-modern features, but it’s reliable, maintainable, and actively supported.

  • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org
    6·
    6 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·
      6 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

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
    11·
    7 days ago

    I wouldn’t say that arch is nearly like that. Maybe you have to put on the doors and hood yourself or something maybe…

    • Donkter@lemmy.world
      12·
      7 days ago

      It’s like a kit car. It comes with the chassis and engine all intact, technically street-legal. You just get to decide whether you want windshields and doors, which some people consider pretty obvious and too much of a hassle to pretend they’re “optional”

      • Mr.Chewy@lemmy.world
        3·
        7 days ago

        Hey! Gears changed by jamming a galvanized square steel pole into the floor is WAY more optimal than having a gear stick. Reduces weight, I may change gears often, but it’s not EVERY time.

        (I do have the gear stick on anyways in case I forget how to use the steel pole properly, but that’s not the point!)

      • kivihiili@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        7 days ago

        i’d personally liken it more to one of those flat pack jeeps. with a little technical know-how you can get something decently barebones going, of course with ample opportunity for fun!!

        kit cars do vary, and there are some that would fit this pretty well, but i’d say much of them are like linux from scratch if anything.

        you get a list of parts and stuff, and some instructions on putting it together, but at the end of the day (realistically past that and into the early morning in my experience with LFS :3) the builder is much relied on for the actual customization and patching of everything together!