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Even though different Linux distros are often fairly close in terms of real-life performance and all of them have a clear advantage over Windows in many use cases, we can't reject the fact that Arch Linux has undoubtedly won the competition. And now I'm so glad to have another reason to proudly say "I use Arch btw"

::: It was a joke of course :::

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Good intentions but many of these tests are arbitrary and flawed.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Where'd you get that image? I made that 7 or 8 years ago. Has it been making the rounds? It's weird to see it in the wild lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Did you really make it? Weird to imagine you would be on Lemmy coincidentally.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I did, yeah. I thought the original flowchart was really childish and cringy so I made this and posted it on some Linux circlejerk sub on reddit. It didn't get any traction, I'm shocked to see it pop up years later. I guess somebody must have liked it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This gets shared around a lot more than you think. I see it a lot on 4chan and even in internet comments.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Damn, I created a minor niche meme. And my teachers didn't think I'd amount to anything

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Lol @ the idea that backtrack/kali is someone's daily driver.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

AW man, my first choice back in the days was Debian. Seeing now your map made me remember the pain of learning along the way while solving nuclear bomb events and configurations that I had no idea even existed. Still, it was a great experience! Nowadays I just use win 11.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Windows wouldn't be too terrible if it wasn't for all the pop ups all the time.

I need to work with it because I need to create a WPF app with Visual Studio, and when I switch from Windows to my personal computer, the difference is mind blowing.

Windows push you fucking add with a notification sound. It's probably on me that I didn't disable yet, but I don't have to do that on any Linux distro.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

Preach! I am glad that I am not 14 and I have a life.

[–] victron 5 points 8 months ago

Shhh! Windows bad!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)
  • Edge Flatpak: unofficial, using zypak, same app on every Distro. Also launch times are damn irrelevant
  • "storage used" is likely just the DEs filesystem abstraction

I was very very surprised about Ubuntu starting so fast. Afaik they preload Snaps now, which should increase that startup time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

But Snaps bad Snaps slow!!!1111!1!!