What Your Choice of Linux Distro Says about You

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What Your Choice of Linux Distro Says about You

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday October 30, 2004 @03:35AM 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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Re:Slackware? by Yath · 2004-10-30 03:46 · Score: 0, Troll

Slackware users are libertarian (or even anarchist) control freaks. They react with hostility to any hint of a threat to their freedoms, and make do with a minimum of centralized control. They make friends slowly, and tend to keep them for a long, LONG time but can decisively say goodbye to any who betray them. They have very little tolerance for nonsense.

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In other words, Linuxista are POSEURS!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-30 05:06 · Score: 0, Troll

OSX and Windows people just want to get work done. Zealots only use Linux for image. Linux is only able to exist due to the framework of real work done by the Windows/OSX sector. In other words, it's a flippant luxury for diddling, equivalent to why diamonds are a big commodity in the USA, but in East Timor they have no cachet.

To recap:

Linux = status symbol

Windows/OSX = tools for real work
Re:SuSE and Red Hat for me... by Thaidog · 2004-10-30 05:17 · Score: 0, Troll

Yes.

PS I'm not boasting jackass.

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Re:Slackware? by LMariachi · 2004-10-30 06:23 · Score: 0, Troll

So does this mean that Slackware users are delusional paranoiacs, or is it just you?
Re:I'll bite by bob+beta · 2004-10-30 06:42 · Score: 0, Troll

And, if you had read the fucking article you would have realized that all of the distro-archetypes were comedic and sarcastic, you moron.

Ooooh. But now you're angry, eh?

Or are you being 'nuanced and ironic'?

heh

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I know, I know by ZxCv · 2004-10-30 08:01 · Score: 0, Troll

The fact that I've chosen a MAC should say something loud and clear:

That you are better at manipulating the properties of your network card than the average schmoe?

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Re:It works...? by SparklingClearWit · 2004-10-30 09:01 · Score: 0, Troll

Well, to reply in kind, you f!cking sh!tbag motherf!cker who seems like eating random cocks -

It's cocks!ckers like you who prevent more people from becoming involved with, or desiring to become Linux/Unix experts.

You'll note I never once "whined" about Linux/Unix being too hard. If it was, my network would be all Windows machines. It isn't.

I'm so glad to have found the dividing line between "enthusiasts" and "elitist prick".

Grow up, move out of Mommy's basement, and realize the real world gives this much {} of a flying fuck about your attitude towards computers or "experts".

Oh, nice comment about being a Republican - what the FUCK does that have to do with anything?

Shitsucking Assbag. I guess I was trolled, eh, scrotum sucker?

Have a nice day!
Re:Libertarians vs. control freaks by sp0rk173 · 2004-10-30 09:12 · Score: 0, Troll

So, in Sweden and Canada, is everyone poor? And how do you define poor - is it aquisition of capital, or quality of living?

Not saying you're completely wrong, just wondering what your views are on these two cases that seem to be outliers, according to your model.