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And I thought it's popos which is German and stands for asses
No, you’re thinking of SUSE, which is German for “boringbutstablelinuxdistribution”.
Oddly, that short word-long word English/German translation thing works both ways.
No, your thinking of RHEL which is danish for "redhatsegregiouslicensingbullshit".
Funny, it used to stand for “payfortwentyfloppiesorcompileitfromscratchwedareyou”
It only took me 28 hours after a seven day download at 28.8 KBPS on my 25MHz 486 Packard Bell POS, but those motherfuckers never got a penny from me!
Gentoo enters the chat
Don’t you even fucking get me started, I am so serious, lol
Edit: gentoo was why I said, “fuck this, I’m buying a Mac,” and refused to even think about Linux again for 5-6 years. And I have the OS X/macOS’s being UNIX to thank for that, btw.
The “shield” Apple puts over its OS can be pierced by powerusers who know how to use the terminal, and there are package managers like Homebrew that allow users to install ports of Linux/UNIX/BSD userland apps. In reality, macOS is an extremely-customized build of BSD that’s locked down in many ways, and runs a proprietary filesystem and on property hardware. (That’s a lot of suck, yes). But, otherwise, it’s still POSIX, and so similar to Linux as to easily facilitate a transition. And, because of it, I drifted back to Linux.
Not necessarily because of macOS’s shortcomings, but because I like to tinker and fiddle, and Linux scratches that itch.