The distro family trees are like different pantheons.

Distros are like individual gods. Community developers are priests and end-users are the commoners who pray for blessings, good fortune, and happy lives. Priests direct the prayers of commoners to their respective gods.

There is the Debian pantheon, ancient gods of peace and stillness.

The Arch pantheon, progressive gods that bring revolution along with a bit of chaos.

The Red Hat pantheon, gods tha- wtf am I writing?

  • Lucy :3@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    Arch or arch devs never told me to kill anyone because they’re not a white, straight and cis male using arch.

    Therefore it’s not a real religion, as every religion needs to have murders without reason.

  • darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 months ago

    The great Umberto Eco once wrote some wonderful musings about the similarities between different then popular personal computer operating systems and different branches of Christianity. I see that’s now 30 years ago this year so now might be a good time for a repost, English translations and Italian original can be found here: https://www.simongrant.org/web/eco.html

    • ReallyZen@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      It’s too good not to be posted here :

      The fact is that the world is divided between users of the Macintosh computer and users of MS-DOS compatible computers. I am firmly of the opinion that the Macintosh is Catholic and that DOS is Protestant. Indeed, the Macintosh is counterreformist and has been influenced by the “ratio studiorum” of the Jesuits. It is cheerful, friendly, conciliatory, it tells the faithful how they must proceed step by step to reach – if not the Kingdom of Heaven – the moment in which their document is printed. It is catechistic: the essence of revelation is dealt with via simple formulae and sumptuous icons. Everyone has a right to salvation.

      DOS is Protestant, or even Calvinistic. It allows free interpretation of scripture, demands difficult personal decisions, imposes a subtle hermeneutics upon the user, and takes for granted the idea that not all can reach salvation. To make the system work you need to interpret the program yourself: a long way from the baroque community of revelers, the user is closed within the loneliness of his own inner torment.

      You may object that, with the passage to Windows, the DOS universe has come to resemble more closely the counterreformist tolerance of the Macintosh. It’s true: Windows represents an Anglican-style schism, big ceremonies in the cathedral, but there is always the possibility of a return to DOS to change things in accordance with bizarre decisions…

      And machine code, which lies beneath both systems (or environments, if you prefer)? Ah, that is to do with the Old Testament, and is Talmudic and cabalistic.

      Be sure to click the link to a fuller version provided beneath this one. Eco is just excellent.

  • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    If this is your take after your annual Xmas Magic Mushrooms trip, you need to take more shrooms

    • folaht@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      We pray for pacman to deliver as he often does.

      All hail to pacman!

    • m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Of course not, they also need to pay tribute to our Lords and Saviors Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds and make reverences to our supreme god Tux.

      It’s just that they make all of that with extra steps.

    • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
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      3 months ago

      Some evenings, when a piece of code I wrote compiles on the first try and it all seems so straightforward and simple, I feel blessed by the Spirit of the Machine.

  • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    The Red Hat pantheon, gods tha- wtf am I writing?

    scripture

    amen

  • QuazarOmega@lemy.lol
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    3 months ago

    The Arch pantheon, progressive gods that bring revolution along with a bit of chaos.

    That’s Fedora, really, Arch did cool packaging and bailed

          • introvertcatto@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            3 months ago

            I mean, if you know how to install arch and if you know more than basic command line. Gentoo is not hard you just need patience to compile everything. I installed it and still consider myself a linux beginner. I mean I know more than linux beginners but still far from power users like mental outlaw and luke smith.

            • KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol
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              3 months ago

              Thanks for the tip, I also consider myself a linux begginer. I started with arch (without arch-install). I’ve borked enough installations to not be a complete noob. So I guess I could try installing gentoo.

  • DigitalDilemma@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Don’t be silly, the Linux community has never told me to hate someone just because they’re differen… Oh.

    And besides, there’s no arcane practices or secret knowledg… Oh.

    Carry on.

  • superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I mean, this place is filled with a bunch of missionaries asking if yove heard the good word of Linux on every Microsoft Windows post lol