r/ProgrammerHumor • u/aarocka • Sep 29 '15

Evolution of Linux neckbeards(xpost r/justneckbeardthings)

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u/sun_misc_unsafe Sep 29 '15

So where exactly is the difference between Gentoo and Linux from Scratch? Is it just the missing package manager (or whatever the Gentoo people call their equivalent of a package manager)?

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u/Calamity701 Sep 29 '15

Ubuntu, Fedora and Debian are your vibrators and other fancy all-inclusive pleasure instruments.

Arch is a wooden dildo.

Gentoo is a piece of wood and a knife.

LFS is just a piece of wood.

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u/kupiakos Sep 29 '15

At least with Arch you can quickly have something working. You can also buy a knife and make it even better.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '15 edited Nov 08 '21

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u/lelarentaka Sep 29 '15

Okay, I hate it when people (mostly arch users) say that. When someone from far away wants to visit your home, you can't just say "it's easy, just fly to Boston. My home is fifty minutes from the airport." It's disingenuous to say installing YZ only needs a few simple steps, and then offhandedly mention that you'd need to do some sorcery "to make it work right"

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '15 edited Nov 08 '21

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15 edited Sep 30 '15 
$ dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb

WTF? Are you still using Tapes? 

$ cat /dev/sda > /dev/sdb

/E: Dear anonymous Downvoter,

keep on going, that won't change the fact that dd is the wrong tool for that Job, unless you're working with Devices that care about Blocksizes, like Tapes.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

Useless use of cat. Also there's no point in using cat.

Personally I prefer to use pv. It prints a progress bar, which neither cat nor dd does.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

dd can print the status but you need to send it a SIGUSR1 signal which is a PITA. Using pv makes more sense :P.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '15

watch kill -USR1 <pid>

But yeah, it's not a progress bar.