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    [–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 157 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Not shown: The top 0.05% - "Use whichever distro you're satisfied with. The different distributions exist to offer choice, not to compete."

    [–] lengau@midwest.social 48 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Seriously... At SCaLE this year I saw people from various distro booths taking breaks and visiting other distro booths. Each time they looked genuinely interested and excited about what the other distro was doing.

    [–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 51 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Seriously: this non-competitive behavior in the FOSS community is soo fucking refreshing!

    [–] Pan_Ziemniak@midwest.social 35 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Almost like humans find cooperation is healthier than competition on the whole...

    FOSS til i die, please.

    [–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    “Don’t compete! — competition is always injurious to the species, and you have plenty of resources to avoid it!” -Pjotr Kropotkin

    [–] Pan_Ziemniak@midwest.social 8 points 7 months ago

    Based and breadpilled.

    [–] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    My God I love Lemmy. Finding a Kropotkin quote in the wild? Outside of an anarchists sub? Without specifically searching for it?

    It makes me feel less alone. Thank you.

    [–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 months ago

    Glad to be able to quote it and receive so much positive feedback :)

    [–] lengau@midwest.social 20 points 7 months ago

    I kinda feel like there's very little overlap between distro fans and distro developers. Probably because distro devs tend to know all the dirty secrets of their distro.

    You go on Reddit or wherever and it's all "distro X is evil, use distro Y instead," "No, Y is terrible! Use Z!" And then you sit at a table with a SuSE developer, a Fedora developer and an Ubuntu developer and the conversation is all "so how are you guys dealing with this issue?" "Oh, I think we came up with a great solution, I'll share the patch set with you!" "Wonderful, thanks! By the way I opened up a merge request on your stuff because we figured out how to fix that namespaces issue."

    [–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

    Capitalism thrives on exclusivity, teaching people that others doing the same thing is competition and not friendship.