this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2025
427 points (98.6% liked)

linuxmemes

27845 readers
611 users here now

Hint: :q!


Sister communities:


Community rules (click to expand)

1. Follow the site-wide rules

2. Be civil
  • Understand the difference between a joke and an insult.
  • Do not harrass or attack users for any reason. This includes using blanket terms, like "every user of thing".
  • Don't get baited into back-and-forth insults. We are not animals.
  • Leave remarks of "peasantry" to the PCMR community. If you dislike an OS/service/application, attack the thing you dislike, not the individuals who use it. Some people may not have a choice.
  • Bigotry will not be tolerated.
  • 3. Post Linux-related content
  • Including Unix and BSD.
  • Non-Linux content is acceptable as long as it makes a reference to Linux. For example, the poorly made mockery of sudo in Windows.
  • No porn, no politics, no trolling or ragebaiting.
  • 4. No recent reposts
  • Everybody uses Arch btw, can't quit Vim, <loves/tolerates/hates> systemd, and wants to interject for a moment. You can stop now.
  • 5. πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ Language/язык/Sprache
  • This is primarily an English-speaking community. πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ
  • Comments written in other languages are allowed.
  • The substance of a post should be comprehensible for people who only speak English.
  • Titles and post bodies written in other languages will be allowed, but only as long as the above rule is observed.
  • 6. (NEW!) Regarding public figuresWe all have our opinions, and certain public figures can be divisive. Keep in mind that this is a community for memes and light-hearted fun, not for airing grievances or leveling accusations.
  • Keep discussions polite and free of disparagement.
  • We are never in possession of all of the facts. Defamatory comments will not be tolerated.
  • Discussions that get too heated will be locked and offending comments removed.
  • Β 

    Please report posts and comments that break these rules!


    Important: never execute code or follow advice that you don't understand or can't verify, especially here. The word of the day is credibility. This is a meme community -- even the most helpful comments might just be shitposts that can damage your system. Be aware, be smart, don't remove France.

    founded 2 years ago
    MODERATORS
     

    What is this, a crossover episode?

    top 20 comments
    sorted by: hot top controversial new old
    [–] RickAstleyfounddead@lemy.lol 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)
    [–] cactusfangs@sh.itjust.works 23 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

    Add a third group: toddlers

    [–] Fourth@mander.xyz 3 points 1 hour ago

    Fourth group, bicycle people

    This is very true. I don't know why they're so captivated by them.

    [–] BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 37 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

    Did they finally merge the En Passant fork into the master branch? Been waiting to update my board to the latest version.

    [–] Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
    [–] expr@programming.dev 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

    Nope, we call it master. The hand-wringing over the name was and still is absolutely asinine.

    [–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 27 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

    bro hasn't updated his dependencies since the 16th century. You're cooked, I bet you haven't even read the man page for Ruy Lopez.

    EDIT: People these days are trying to get the 960 branch to be seen as legit, but struggling.

    [–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

    I thought Chess 2.1 was the standard by now. Curious oder versions are still around

    2.1 is the most common version, but it's way out of date. The current standardized version is 9.6.0.

    [–] waigl@lemmy.world 14 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

    I don't even know which Linux specific fork you are referring to, it could be either a git fork or fork(2).

    [–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

    I assume the excitement is for git forks rather than process forking

    [–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 3 points 11 hours ago

    Speak for yourself

    [–] jawa22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 17 hours ago

    The excitement is for fork bombs, clearly.

    [–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 7 points 19 hours ago

    Also getting weirdly excited by forks:
    My missus in a charity shop (US: Thrift store?) or antique shop

    [–] machiavellian@lemmy.ml 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
    [–] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 19 hours ago

    New response just dropped

    [–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

    I almost exclusively role my eyes when I see a new fork, the whole problem with Linux (distros) is fragmentation among the developer base they literally cannibalized themselves and honestly a new distro is not worth eating human flesh.

    [–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 8 points 17 hours ago

    It’s the problem, but also the strength. That fragmentation allows room to experiment.

    It also puts pressure on the underlying protocols/specs to be air-tight. If you have just one implementation to support, you can do whatever. If you have to support 15, all with different goals and constraints, you gotta be pretty damn careful.

    So in the end, we get foundational systems that are able to evolve over time instead of needing a breaking-change, ground-up rewrite every 2 years.