Distros Memes

Ask any Linux user what distro you should use and watch them immediately launch into a passionate defense of their own choice while politely nodding at yours. It's like asking a parent which kid is their favorite—they'll say "they're all great!" but you know damn well they have a preference. The truth? Everyone thinks their distro is objectively superior while simultaneously respecting your terrible decision to use something else. Ubuntu users think Arch users are masochists. Arch users think Ubuntu users can't read documentation. Gentoo users are still compiling and can't join the conversation yet. Pro tip: The best distro is whichever one you've already spent 6 hours customizing and are now too emotionally invested to switch from.

So you start with "STOP USING LINUX" (the gateway drug), then move to "STOP USING DISTROS" (because apparently the entire concept of distributions is now problematic), then "STOP USING HYPRLAND" (getting oddly specific here), and finally "STOP USING macOS" (because why stop at reasonable takes when you can speedrun becoming That Guy™). The progression from rejecting an entire OS family to nitpicking window managers to hating on Apple is the tech equivalent of "first they came for the penguins, and I said nothing." Each video gets progressively more unhinged, like watching someone's descent into madness but with more opinions about package managers. Next up: "STOP USING COMPUTERS" followed by "STOP USING ELECTRICITY" and finally "RETURN TO MONKE, CODE WITH STICKS."

Ah yes, the classic Linux evangelism. "Just use Linux" they say, as if it's one simple thing to install. Meanwhile, what they don't tell you is that "Linux" is actually this comically overwhelming family tree of distributions that would make genealogists have a panic attack. That image shows the absurd branching evolution of every Linux distro ever created. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, Fedora, Gentoo, and about 500 others I've never heard of despite using Linux for 15 years. It's like walking into an ice cream shop and instead of just chocolate or vanilla, there are 600 flavors and the guy behind the counter is judging you for not knowing the difference between Mint Cinnamon and Mint MATE.

The comic brilliantly parodies both Mario Bros and Linux distributions with a dash of existential crisis. The characters are dressed as popular Linux distros - Ubuntu (with its iconic circle logo) and Linux Mint (with its green "M" logo). The joke hinges on how Linux Mint is actually based on Ubuntu, yet gets forgotten or mistaken for "Green Ubuntu" by casual users. Poor Mint is basically Ubuntu's forgotten child who just wants to be recognized for its own identity! The Mario-style "It's-a me" speech pattern makes it even funnier, as if these distros are siblings in some dysfunctional open-source family where the derivative distro struggles for recognition against its more famous parent. Classic middle child syndrome, but with package managers!