• stevecrox@kbin.run
    1115·
    9 months ago

    Debian would be a Volvo Estate, its the boring practical family choice, the owner is soneone boring like an architect or a financial advisor.

    Arch is a Vauxhall Nova, second hand battered owned almost exclusively by teenage lads who spend a lot of time/money modifying it (e.g. lowering so it can’t go over speed bumps, adding a massive exhaust to sound good but destroys engine power).

    Fedora is something slightly larger/more expensive like a Ford Focus/VW Golf/Vauxhall Astra owned by slightly older lads. The owners spend their time adding lighting kits and the largest sound systems money can buy.

    Slackware is clearly a Subaru Impreza, at one point the best World Rally Car but hasn’t been a contender for a while. Almost all are owned by rally fans who spend fantastic amounts of time tinkering with the car to get set it up an ultimate rally car. None of the owners race cars.

    OpenSuse is a Nissan Cube, its insanely practical. It should be the modern boring family choice, but it manages to ve too quirky for your architect while not practical enough for van drivers.

    I don’t know the other distros well enough.

    I run Debian btw

    • stevecrox@kbin.run
      81·
      9 months ago

      Nah Linux Mint is a Kia Ceed.

      Ubuntu is a Ford Focus, they successfully stole the volvo estate market (Debian). The car was fun, good value and very practical. It was everywhere. Then Ford started increasing the size, weight, price, etc… killing the point of the Focus.

      So along comes Kia trying to make a competitor in the Ceed.

      In theory the Ceed is a great car, its super cheap, lots of cabin space, nippy, the inside has every modern convenance, but…

      • It plays engine noises via speakers that aren’t aligned with what you are doing
      • The boot space is rubbish, so 5 people can happily travel in the car you barely fit a suitcase in it
      • There is an steering sensitivity button that stays on at 70 MPH with no indication on the display
      • A Vauxhall Nova just out accelerated you

      Your left wondering why anyone is bothering with hot hatchbacks these days as you climb into your volvo

    • NosferatuZodd@lemmy.world
      15·
      9 months ago

      It was the first distro I installed on my laptop and actually daily drived, it looks cool and the feels good to use

      And since almost nobody around me uses linux it gives a very good image with how clean it looks

    • whiskyjack@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      I have it installed on several old laptops/Chromebooks. It’s cute, but it’s not really performing how it bragged it would… Gonna have to find something leaner…

    • CCF_100@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Never seriously… I only experimented with it in a VM. I know it’s not against the GPL, but they way they rebrand existing things and then add licenses to them just feels scummy to me…

    • monsterpiece42@reddthat.com
      1·
      9 months ago

      I work in a computer shop and we put Zorin on machines for some instances, like if it’s a old/low performance machine or if the customer is trying to stick to a strict budget. We haven’t had any come back, and people seem to like it.

    • Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      21·
      9 months ago

      It runs my laser cutter for my business 3 years and still running on a dual core industral pc with no fans. Its pretty good

      • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        9 months ago

        I mean, under the hood it’s just Ubuntu. No one’s questioning how reliable it is. It’s just that everything that actually makes it Zorin is just a bunch of fancy skins. It was designed to be something you could load on your Grandma’s PC and still have it look like Windows.

  • cmbabul@lemmy.world
    17·
    9 months ago

    I really want an AI Top Gear/The Grand Tour episode of the three idiots arguing about Linus distros now

    • palordrolap@kbin.social
      4·
      9 months ago

      That license plate is Cyrillic, but it isn’t a recent, non-specialised Russian one. Both Greece and Russia use Latin homoglyphs (that is, letters of theirs that look like the Latin alphabet) on their plates so that tourists more familiar with the Latin alphabet can read license plates.

      This plate has a Ц, which isn’t in that list.

      Which leads me to wonder where it’s actually from. Specialist Russian or one of the old SSRs, maybe?

      • mkuznetsoff@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 months ago

        I don’t know really. I just googled “копейка”. You are right, in Russia we use different plate, maybe it’s from USSR. I’m too young to know about it :)

      • Pantherina@feddit.de
        1·
        9 months ago

        I installed Zorin in a VM. The install crashes when testing in live mode and then installing.

        Apart from that, its really no better or less messy than GNOME with some extensions.

  • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
    11·
    9 months ago

    I have no horse in this race but anyone who has ever used a Fiat Multipla will know what a complement this is for Slackware.

    Edit: typo