As the designer of the Debian logo I approve of this :-)
No way, it’s like I just walked past a celebrity
Can you imagine being the one person who downvoted them?
Ha! Tell that to my kids!
This is all the validation I need
Taking this opportunity to personally thank you for making a good logo, I absolutely love the Debian swirl! There are so many boring geometric or single-letter logos out there, the details and texture of the swirl is just so good.
Thank you. I really appreciate all the compliments!
It’s a beautiful shade of red, and the intricate little details across the swirl. It’s a nice change to the bland, corporate logos we’re used to.
🫡Thank you for your service
Wow I’m starstruck! Unsurprised to find the Debian gang here, but still very happy about it!
We are everywhere! So glad to see Debian going on strong after all these years.
I miss the days when I was more involved (even though I was always on the side lines)
and they say we don’t have celebrities or important people on Lemmy
Maybe they are all just hiding in plain sight or something.
I’ve admired this logo for 20 years. Debian has the best logo.
Thank you! That made my day!
It’s an honor to meet you
Likewise!
That’s cool. Got any proof of that?
That’s me mentioned at the bottom. You can contact me at the link!
Did you just sneeze with a red paintbrush in your hand and call it a day?
Wait, so the swirl wasn’t related to the “magic smoke” leaving electronics components when they get fried? Somebody lied to me.
It was tied to magic smoke! But a different of kind. The original requirements called for two logos, one for restricted use, and one for general use. The one that’s being used for general use now was meant to be only for restricted use. The original had a genie bottle from which the swirl came out, the concept was that something very powerful had been unleashed onto the world, free of charge, that stood to change the world. I was inspired by Neil Stephenson’s story The Hole Hawg of Operating Systems - Unix.
Here is a link to the article:
http://www.team.net/mjb/hawg.html
And here is a link to the two original designs:
Cheers!
You’re a legend!
Do firefox next. They need it.
Debian is light, debian is fast, and debian just works. Debian 🔥
Best of all debian is stable.
Is it possible do downgrade a central package without apt asking if you want to uninstall your entire system yet?
Apparently you didnt read about the update process.
What you do in debian is simply beautiful:
You rock stable and once a newer package is required, you install from backports. When a the package goes to a next stable version, you can remove the backports. It will transition automagically.
Take this and put it in your pipe!
tried it but I quite like how mint looks so I tried it with cinnamon and god default cinnamon is ugly and I dunno how to get all the mint theming so that was a deal breaker for me
This is the kind of meme that makes me both happy and sad.
Happy becuase it’s so funny, but sad because nobody I know personally would get it lol.
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Is that a live action version of the Incredibles?
Yes, it is!
Oh no…^^
I started my whole Linux experience with Ubuntu 6.10. IIRC Compiz Fusion or Beryl was the shit back then with the 3D cube effect and the windows going off in flames when you close something.
Ubuntu was a fantastic distribution to start early on. Especially in the pre-10.x days there weren’t many beginner friendly ones. Your alternatives were Debian with very outdated software, SuSE which was kind of OK, Fedora which was also quite unstable and lacking packages (remember hunting RPMs on the old RPMfusion?) or Ubuntu. At some point I’d outgrown Ubuntu and moved on to greener pastures. Nowadays I’m not sure I’d be recommending Ubuntu to new users, Fedora is quite good and without all the snap store shenanigans. Even Debian installation experience is not too bad and it’s not lacking too much in software.
I think PopOS is the new beginner friendly, just works, distribution. It’s what Ubuntu should have been.
I also feel less worry about System76 trying to capture market share and then do a heel turn to monetize on that market share. We all know exactly where the money comes from for System76, and it’s not selling support contracts
The other distro I tried out was openSuSE, but idk which version. It was shipped with KDE3 or 3.5, and man, I loved it. RPMs and YaST was something to get used to, especially after Ubuntu and I was like… 15-16 yeara old, barely just into Linux land so broke the shit out of them pretty regularly. But I learned a lot.
Then KDE4 and Plasma came out and I hated every pixel of it.
Honestly, I’m starting to appreciate the “Just works” mentality a little more as I start to shy away from ricing. I’m going to stick with non-systemd distributions, but my DE will likely be cinnamon next, since it’s easy to use and I don’t care about making it look pretty.
I feel Void + a simple DE is an amazing combination for people who want to get work done without paying too much of attention to the OS, except the part of the OS they are using actively (tooling + applications)
Why non-systemd distros? I have heard of not-systemd distros like Artix and Devaun (I think that’s how you spell them), but I never bothered looking into why some people prefer them.
Systemd is easier but also slower, it dose a lot more than just a init system and many dislike that. I have used both and it’s cool to see E.g. PostmarketOS boot but systemd works really well nowdays too and the actual backlash is mostly from it’s early days.
It’s philosophical: I want an init system, not a gargantuan binary blob that does who knows what and apparently removing it breaks completely unrelated parts of my system just because this little shit seems to have a hand in its operation
because this little shit seems to have a hand in its operation
I don’t get it.
Because SystemD seems to be intertwined in the workings of many, seemingly unrelated components, especially since it was supposed to be an init system
Oh I thought you were talking about a person lol
I use void now with xfce and i3. But I’ll be honest. I still like Ricing.
Ah, slackware.
Debian is bestian
Glad to see that debian does get some love over here…I always felt like a pariah in linux reddit comunities
As a Debian user, I agree. :)
Jo I don’t know much about Linux distros, but isn’t Ubuntu just Debian with some extra features?
Ubuntu is based on Debian Testing (their beta pipeline) and run by a for profit corporation. Ubuntu makes significant changes to Debian to get it to where its easy to use for end users. It has in the past made choices that were extremely unpopular in the open source community, and will make those decisions again in the future.
Never much liked ubuntu but admittedly, they did a lot for userfriendliness in the Linux space and a lot of great beginner (or people who don’t want to deal with stuff not working) friendly distros like mint, pop, etc are based on it, oftentimes debullshittet (e.g. neither use snap by default)
Yeah I don’t want to take away from that Ubuntu’s installers completely changed the Linux game. I just feel like the rest of the space caught up on the ease of use, and I’m not actually sure Ubuntu offers up that much these days
I would liken it to more like if Debian was a shot of whiskey, Ubuntu is like a whiskey sour. It still has whiskey as a base but enough ingredients have been added and changes have been made that it’s its own thing.
I love this description
Exactly. Leaves a sour taste in your mouth ruining a perfectly good whiskey.
Isn’t Debian just GNU/Linux with some extra features?
A distro’s a distro. You could rip dnf out of Fedora, install apt if you like.
It basically comes down to the default settings/packages shipped, and philosophy.
Ubuntu adds a much different install experience, snaps, and some features good for enterprise out of the box.
I’ve not had a good experience with snaps tbh. Made me switch from Ubuntu to Debian for server stuff.
Yeah, snaps are truly bloat. I always stayed away from Ubuntu, mainly because of Canonical. Debian is amazing stability wise. Definitely a good choice. I like to live a little more on the edge though, so I use NixOS (it’s great, I can update without ever worrying about breaking my system).
Ubuntu is just Debian with snap.
POP! OS has got it going on man.
My first was red hat… Like 23 years ago
Me too. I think I probably still have the CDs it came on somewhere.
Danny devito in a Sia wig, love it
That is clearly Ongo Gablogian, the famous art collector.
Charmed, I’m sure.
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