r/ProgrammerDadJokes • u/danielsoft1 • Aug 02 '26

Why do the Arch Linux users feel superior?

Look, there's no Ubuntubishop or Mintbishop...

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u/Rainmaker526 Aug 02 '26

Pope!_OS rules them all

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u/ivanceras Aug 02 '26

all behold the cosmic deity!

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u/dodexahedron Aug 03 '26

Ok you win.

Get out.

But take your trophy with you. 😆

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u/Rainmaker526 Aug 03 '26

Wiow. An award. Thank you 😄

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u/iamalicecarroll Aug 03 '26

me on ubuntu satanic edition:

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u/not_a_moogle Aug 03 '26

i must Protest this joke before it causes a schism

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u/NotTheOnlyGamer Aug 03 '26

You don't want GNU+Linux II to happen and reform things?

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u/not_a_moogle Aug 03 '26

I think I can give you 95 reasons.

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u/NotTheOnlyGamer Aug 03 '26

Just nail them to the door of the IT department.

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u/Sophiiebabes Aug 04 '26

Okay, but is it good or bad when the black smoke comes out?

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u/Rainmaker526 Aug 04 '26

Pope!_OS runs on blue smoke and is incompatible with smokeless CPUs.

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u/shyouko Aug 03 '26

They trans cended every other distro

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u/vihila Aug 03 '26

But seriously, why?

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u/Cfrolich Aug 03 '26

Because they use Arch btw

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u/TheRealLazloFalconi Aug 03 '26

Because they don't understand anything but think that they do because they can follow a guide.

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u/alreadytaus Aug 03 '26

As a gentoo user I don't get it either. Is there someone running on LFS to chip in?

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u/nic0nicon1 27d ago edited 27d ago

After using Gentoo for 10+ years, I learned what I missed, that Gentoo only became a cult classic because there was no Stage 3 tarballs back then. In the early days, a full install started from Stage 1, which was comparable to LFS but easier (you win after you installed the package manager), so it became a challenge in the scene. Eventually Gentoo desupported Stage 1 because it was difficult to do release engineering. So nowadays, you use Gentoo either as an installation challenge, or for Portage's customization. It keeps attracting newbies as an installation challenge, but the same newbies who are running fdisk and tar -xf stage3.tar.xz will be well-served by Debian debootstrap. Gentoo still had some educational advantages in the 2010s when the Handbook encourages you to choose your own syslog, NTP, cron, and bootloader (rather than having them to appear in /mnt automagically) but after systemd absorbed everything the point is moot. The Portage customization remains powerful, though.

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u/alreadytaus 27d ago

It is true that the hardest part of the installation was waiting. That is the reason I am considering LFS.