Tell Me Your Distro, I’ll Tell You Who You Are

Published on August 17, 2008 in Humor by Rami Taibah

If the wine you drink, car you drive, food you eat, clothes you wear and even pets you have defines you as a person; does your choice of Linux Distro defines you too?

If you use Ubuntu… You like to follow the crowd and do whatever everyone else does. No individualism.

If you use Debian… You are a giver. You let the crowd followers be more popular with your ideas.

[Continue reading at LinuxHaxor]

I personally started off on the Dark Side :( . Became a follower for a while, then a perfectionist for 6 month, and now a follower. Though I want to become a perfectionist again!

Oh and btw if you don’t know what the hell is a distro, then maybe you should check out my Etymology of A Distro Post :)


Anime image is licensed by Creative Commons BY-NC 3.0
Original Artwork by Juzo Kun, modified by me.

About Rami Taibah

Rami Taibah the founder of The Linuxologist and a self proclaimed geek and Linux aficionado. This fall, he will be pursuing an MIMS degree at UC Berkeley, California. You can follow him on Twitter @rtaibah.

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  • Ryuslayer
    Disagreed. Ubuntu was just the first distro I used and I liked how it is easy to use, yet good for other tasks. It has a great hardware detection and a HUGE repository. Ubuntu is pretty, and good for a laziness. I am, however, not a crowd follower, nor have I ever been. ;)
  • joe
    I think ubumtu is a hyped up fanboy system that sucks major ass to any linux distro that has been around the last 10 years. What a rag. Use a real linux distro that has some history behind it. Fedora, Mandriva, Debian, Slackware. Ubuntu = fanboyOS
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  • init7
    Oh my! I'm already in the dark side!
    Can someone point me to Sith Master Manual?
  • M4rc0
    That's a sign. I think we will have a good further day today :D

    I didn't say my distro by the way, i'm using Fedora!

    I wonder what distro the fat guy in the picture uses..
  • Hey, M4rc0, we posted at exactly the same time. :D
  • Okay, good point, Rami! :) I really hadn't noticed that this was filed under humor.

    M4rc0, you said: "And If you like Linux that much such as using CLI then go for Debian instead." WHY? Ubuntu is Debian-based, for one thing, but aside from that the command line--and the plethora of things one can do at it--is the essentially the same in any Linux distro [that I've used]. Just because a Linux distro has a fancy-schmancy GUI and lots of eye candy doesn't mean it lacks the REAL stuff under the hood! :)
  • M4rc0
    So you follow the crowd too hahaha

    Joking. I think it's an interesting comparisson :)
  • Andrew, OldLinuxGeek, and M4rc0, I would just like to bring to your attention that this is filed under humor ;). Take it with a light heart guys. As I said in my commentary, I am on Ubuntu currently :)
  • M4rc0
    I have to disagree with with you guys.

    If you use Ubuntu you do follow the crowd. There is no individualism in Ubuntu at all, that distro is almost not a linux distro but something else.

    And If you like Linux that much such as using CLI then go for Debian instead.
  • "If you use Ubuntu… You like to follow the crowd and do whatever everyone else does. No individualism." Wow! That's quite a presumptuous statement. ME, follow the crowd? Um, no. Never.

    I started programming and doing system administration on UNIX in the mid-1980s, back when there were VERY few women in the profession, and everything was done at the CLI as GUIs hadn't been invented yet. I got to know the kernel really well, and there wasn't a deep, dark part of UNIX I was afraid to touch.

    Now, 20+ years and MANY Linux distros later--including the very first Linux release in 1991, I CHOOSE to use Ubuntu because I LIKE it. (And I spend much of my time at a command line; there's no comparison when it comes to its power and speed.)

    Please don't make silly assumptions about people based on the distro they choose.
  • andrew
    using ubuntu means no individualism?!?! that leaves no space for windows and osx. i realize this article is specific to linux and normalized for the community, but i use ubuntu because i would probably be an apple guy, but find it played out and restrictive. its like starbucks for me.
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