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Welcome to Lemmy

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Never ask a Lemming what kind of leftist they are, or what is the best Linux distro.
- Well, um, whatever kind you use and whatever kind you are, of course.
  
  That's your favorite distro of linux now, but what previous operating system do you come from?
  
  What if he's a Gentoo user? He'll mock me for using Archlinux, I've got to play this hand carefully so as to not blow my cover. There's always the chance he's a Mint user and I have nothing to worry about, but then, he could be one of those users that says ricing is a waste of time, who uses his OS professionally, but then, he might be a Fedora user... how do I approach this issue without seeming like a pleb?! Based Stallman, help me!
  NixOS
  
  How about that vaporwave aesthetic of Garuda Dr460nized edition?
  
  LFS
  
  Windows 2000. I feel like that's reasonable. It was honestly pretty solid kit.
  
  That was not my experience with 2000. Either 98 or XP (post-SP2) were more solider, from memory.
  
  I think you might be confusing Windows ME with 2000.
  Windows 2000 was built on the Windows NT kernel which was business focused so absolutely rock solid.
  Windows 98 was a good jump in stability from the 95 kernel bit still very prone to crashing.
  I agree XP was good but it was the successor to 2K so built on it and I moved to Linux as soon as the 2K directx support would have forced me to move to XP which wasn't as lightweight.
  For clarity there were two development branches within Microsoft at the turn of the millennium: one that was based off windows 3.1 (and became 95, 98 and ME) and one that was based off windows NT 3.1 which was solid as fuck and eventually became 2000 then XP.
  Edit: Here's a decent graphic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Windows_versions#/media/File:Windows_Version_History.svg
  
  Oh shit, I think you're right!
  Now that a stretch my memory back decades, I seem to recall I never extensively used 2000, it was ME.
  I agree XP was good
  I seem to recall something about XP not being good at the start, and it wasn't until about SP2 that it reached it's famed quality. But now I can't seem to find anything about it.
  
  Ah the naming was terrible in fairness... Windows millennium edition and windows 2000. I mean c'mon like. Haha.
  And yeah I was gone by SP2 but I remember my gaming friends holding tight to that for as long as they could. There were even various really lightweight editions of SP2 that you could download if you had the balls to install a hacked together operating system from some randomer on the internet. And they all did.
  Different times!!
  Edit: also what's up Dave on the far side of the world!
  
  Edit: also what's up Dave on the far side of the world!
  I'm actually on the close side of the world 🤯
- Slackware is the the only answer
- What kind of leftist are you and what is the best Linux distro?
  
  Left libertarian, NixOS naturally.
  
  anarcho-communist, arch
  
  Post-left anarchist, Arch obv
  I don't use Arch but that wasn't the question
  
  I also don't use Devuan but said Devuan is the best distro
  
  Dishonor upon you and your family!
  
  Huh, they'll name Linux distros anything these days...
  
  That is just the english translation, the distro is maintained and developed by Klingons and it invades off the tongue far more naturally in Klingon.
  
  Hanna Montana is the best distro
  
  Socialist, Guix
  
  ancom, devuan
  
  Dictionary Anarchist - BotaOS(the name I give when I recompile a kernel on anything that I am running for more than a few weeks).
  Currently based on Pop.
- Me: a disillusioned Liberal who runs Fedora, because I’m a basic bıtch and I ain’t got time for this shit anymore.
  
  Same brother. I was once a Gentoo using anarchist but now I spend more time getting stuff done and less time tweaking my setup.
  
  Fedora is the Todd Howard meme of Linux: it just works

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