• N.E.P.T.R@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Alpine is minimal. That kid would show up in one piece pajamas because it serves the job of pants, shirt, underwear, and sweater+hood (if it comes with a hood).

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      Slackware is the ancient teacher still using chalk and a blackboard threatening to beat misbehaving kids.

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      I think Slackware would be more:

      Sits in the back of the room quietly working, well wearing a three piece plaid suit and smoking a pipe. Depending on the day the pipe may contain tobacco, marijuana, and/or mushrooms. Still uses a slide ruler because its stable tech.

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    Poor OpenSuse. The exchange student. Pivotal to the group project. Everybody loves them when their arpund but no one mentions them

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    Bazzite: Sweaty gamer in their mom’s basement. Goes a minimum of 2 days without showering. Talks like they know stuff, but really they parrot what they read on internet forums. Could change their whole life if they wanted to, but they refuse.

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    Ubuntu is the tinfoil hat guy who believes weird stuff but people still follow her because she is loud

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      lol NixOS shows up every day with their younger sibling that is somehow smarter than them but yesterday they were the younger sibling

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      Bazzite: The kid with rich parents who has built three gaming PCs in the past year, just to keep his hardware up-to-date… But he only uses them to emulate games that are at least 10 years old. He also thinks RAID is a backup. He happily parrots whatever last week’s tech blogger was posting about, but he gets some big parts of it wrong because he only read the AI generated summaries.

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        Obsolete. No WiFi drivers ever. (Might be false by now.) Always breaks during major upgrades (that’s only my experience, so I could be wrong here too). But hey, it’s obsolete!

        Don’t break Debian, they say.

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          Up to my newest laptop (which is over 4yo now), debian always had working wifi drivers from the live distro.

          For a real “no wifi drivers ever”, try SliTaz. It doesn’t have working drivers even on my 2012 asus laptop

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            I’ve been with Debian through 2000s and 2010s, and if you’re someone not knowing this foss vs proprietary thing, it’s quite difficult to explain why there’s no WiFi drivers and that you need to do some complex hoops to get this working. I had no WiFi on most laptops I interacted with, all the time.

            However, fair to say I had a Fedora installation for a friend’s MacBook from 2009, and we faced no WiFi thing either. Had to install Broadcom drivers separately. So, I myself understand why there’s no drivers included, but it’s not what’s easy to explain this to someone migrating off Windows. Otherwise Debian is good, but I use it only for single board computers.

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    manjaro also frequently steps on his own glasses and can’t see without them.

    alpine should have some minimalist edc stuff but nothing fancy and doesn’t do anything else that stands out