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Ok, the question is: What would each distro taste like?
RedHat: A dark roast, bitter but caffeinated. You curse with each sip and can't stop drinking it. You also pay the barista to tell you how to hold the mug.
Gentoo is the espresso you get when your coffee-obsessed friend with >$10k worth of barista equipment asks if you'd like a coffee. It's the best damn thing you've ever tasted, but by the time your friend has finished preparing and all the settings are dialed in, it's around midnight and you should have gone home hours ago
Ubuntu would be a very sour taste, many acids
Hahaha good one 😅
So sour it deletes your taste buds
Mint would be cinnamon flavored
I kinda like representing it with Moroccan mint tea. It's the best mint flavored thing in real life I could think of.
It's not a coffee but it's close enough.
Do you get it?
I live in Morocco so yeah, I drink it at least every time I'm with my family.
I was referencing cinnamon
Oh.
I've tried it on a distro I installed on a virtual machine, and it was fine enough. I might even start using it for a bit.
I personally prefer KDE Plasma for the customizability
Same.
Red hat is the free coffee you get in the office at IBM
@nxdefiant @UtMan1988
I think arch would taste like a cold lemonade!
linux from scratch (not technically a distro): tastes like a coffee plant
Arch is third wave single origin that can only be fully appreciated by hand-grinding the beans and using a Chemex pour over preparation method.
Debian would be like precisely made drip coffee. Really consistent taste, very little variation, always good.