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What Your Choice of Linux Distro Says about You

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the choose-wisely dept.

iter8 writes "NewsForge has an article explaining what your choice of distro says about you. There's no comment on what using Windows or OS X does for your rep. I use Mandrake, so that makes me suave and sophisticated."

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  1. The Cat in the Hat by OffTheLip · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Was red now blue.

  2. Re:I must be schizoid... by Reducer2001 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It's Saturday. Go outside, drink beer and talk to girls!

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  3. Re:Great. No Slackware. by kfg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    . . .through 10 feet of snow

    Wearing sandals, although when it gets below 20F I do tend to add neoprene socks. Very fasionable.

    KFG

  4. Re:A distro doesn't say a damn thing about anyone by kfg · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Oh, I don't know. I think it would be pretty accurate to say that running mu on my laptop says I'm a cheap bastard who doesn't see any reason to buy a new machine so long as I can get vanilla vi to run.

    KFG

  5. Re:Libertarians vs. control freaks by raju1kabir · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    For instance, I frequent Chilies, and I love their food (from the choices to the results).

    You love the results? Blocked arteries and a figure like a walrus?

    Lastly, while capitalism achieves inequality (with some people rich, and some people poor), and socialism does create equality, it's not in the manner that you think. Socialism, after a run of many years, creates equality by MAKING EVERYONE POOR. The U.S.S.R (putting aside the political figures) may have been one of the most equal states to ever exist, but I doubt the people saw it as that.

    The USSR was a totalitarian dictatorship that happened to use the word "socialism" a lot in its mission statement. Holding it up as the pinnacle of socialist achievement is like holding up the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (hint: that's the one in the north) as the pinnacle of democracy.

    There is no shortage of states to the left of the USA that provide higher quality of life by any reasonable measure except adding up everyone's income and dividing by the population count (which is a pretty useless measure, as would become clear to anyone who saw my $10 million/year and your mom's-basement libertarian $12,500/year and heard us claim to be, on average, the two richest guys in the bar).

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    "Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." -- GBS