From our Dear Leader, Robert Pogson, who is addicted to the phrase. He’s very particular about its use, however. His personal tastes run to dehydrated potato, shooting wild animals and voldemorts with a .303 huntin’ small thingie, and poisoning pigeons in the park1, but he only ever recommends one thing:
I recommend Debian GNU/Linux.
And Victor Kiam used to recommend Remington shavers. John Keats used to recommend both Truth and Beauty (apparently they are interchangeable) and my niece once recommended eating live snails dug up from the garden. Crunchy!
It doesn’t actually mean anything, does it?
Not, say, “I can solve your problem! Just use a pivot table!”
Or “RFC822 explains how you format Internet Text Messages.”
No, it’s more like “I recommend the St Louis Browns. Hell, they suck. But I grew up with them, so I don’t care.”
(I’ve never actually heard somebody recommending the St Louis Browns, but let it stand.)
Thing is, the St Louis Browns were funny, and at some deep level they understood this important fact.
GNU/Debian on the other hand … well, it is to laugh; but somehow I don’t see much merriment bursting out around the Indianapolis offices.
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[1] I was lying about the voldemorts, by the way.
Comments
I know i ll get flamed for this, but deep inside, i admire Debian, because it’s an entire OS built by hobbists, in the same way I admire hot rodders. Just don’t ask me to use Debian as my primary OS.
Unlike Ubuntu, Debian only packages stable, working code, so it should theoretically work if you don’t mind being 7 years behing when compared to Windows or OS X.
Why would we flame you?
Apart from the silly little freetard suggestion that “it’s an entire OS built by hobb[y]ists,” of course.
Now, let me think. Your point is?
“Unlike Ubuntu, Debian only packages stable, working code, so it should theoretically work if you don’t mind being 7 years behing when compared to Windows or OS X.”
that’s a deeply held myth. i tried debian stable and it still has the same stupid bug in gvfs that you can find in ubuntu forums. linux has a fundamental problem- the distro makers are too cheap to hire testers. coupled with the fact that they rather work on burning windows then fix bugs in grub, it makes for an alpha grade product.
btw, i tried mounting samba shares in osx yesterday to see if it suffers from the same problem. nope, the mount goes to a real mountpoint (/volumes/share), without even asking for a root password. in gnome or kde, the mountpoint is a virtual file, so you can’t see it in programs that don’t implement the gnome api well (90% of them).
@DrLoser: seems as if you became sick of “I recommend Debian GNU/Linux” 15-17 days later than I did.
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