1dalmWhat Linux Distro is your Christian Denomination?
VeganCheesecakeWhich I would appreciate … if I had the least idea about Christian sects in the US.
undefinedSpot on as a FreeBSD and macOS user but those are UNIX rather than Linux (though I use Alpine Linux pretty heavily too).
SkullgridFreeBSD and macOS user but those are UNIX rather than Linux
Yes, and the meme is which branch of christianity the OS is the equivalent of.
“Atheism” and “Spiritual but not religious” are not braches of christianity
“Atheism” and “Spiritual but not religious” are not braches of christianity
Is the joke really that complicated?
I mean, he didn’t get it, and to me that’s one of the easier ones… Unless you mean the devil logo for free bss
Also, yeah, the target audience knows the OSes better than the denominations, that’s why we don’t understand how they correlate.
Maybe write an explanation?
I understand very few of these, except for arch, slack and the bottom row.
How is ope suse and chrome Os related? Are baptist and southern baptist very different?
I’ve heard mostly bad things about southern baptists, so I understand why the chrome os. I’m unsure of the relations of baptists and southern baptists.
Evangelicals are typically traditional, very conservative, and proud. I thats a play on the arch user of doing everything in the command line and letting everyone know.
Orthodox is has some nuonsed diffrences to Catholic, but is under a different hierarchy. Not sure how that relates to slackware
The bottem row are all non Christian, so they are aptly not linux.
Orthodox is Slackware because it’s the oldest Christian denomination and changes very slowly.
OmnipitaphWait… Orthodox is the oldest? The Catholic rhetoric is that they are the oldest denomination. I feel bamboozled!
Orthodox
I’m sure the Catholics would disagree with me, and that’s fine with me. But personally I would say the Orthodox are the oldest continuous movement of Christianity. Not only do they historically beat out the Romans by a few decades, but also they have maintained a far more consistent liturgy over the millennia. The Catholics have had a a good handful of major liturgical changes that I would say constitute a few major breaks in historical consistency.
That’s not a criticism from me. I’m Anglican.
Well dang! From what I can tell, you’re right. Now I wanna check out an Orthodox church xD
Orthodox
The Orthodox communion is having a bit of a revival right now. Which happens on occasion for them, because they are really misunderstood in the West.
For example, in the 2000s they had a brief boom period where “new-agey” type people were attracted to the mystical aspects of the church. I think that boom was short lived because those people really just wanted spiritual consumerism, and, as far as Christian denominations go, Orthodoxy is hard work. It’s not for beginners. If you aren’t born into it then it’s really hard to break in. (By my understanding is that if you do the hard work the community and spiritual benefits are really meaningful.)
Unfortunately, today their current boom (if it’s still going on, this information is a few years old now) is coming from Proud boys-type people. They were interested it it because it’s seen as adequately homophobic and sexist for them. My guess is that their interest was ultimately short lived as well because they aren’t going to be interested in doing the work any more than the Live-Laugh-Love crowd was.
Northern baptists were decentralized abolitionists, while southern baptists were centralized and pro-slavery.
InternetCitizen2I was unaware that the CoC would be cool enough to have motorcyclists.
negativenullUnitarian Universalism
To stick to the theme of my chart, since Unitarian Universalism is non-trinitarian it would likely need to be a Unix-like OS that isn’t Linux.
I would give it OpenSolaris. (And that’s a compliment.)
I freaking loved Opensolaris!, so that works too!
jqubedI think several on your chart don’t believe in the Trinity? Pretty sure LDS, JW, and at least some Pentecostal? I think they all self-identify as Christian, though, but some Unitarians might not? Is that the difference?
That’s my exact thought process. I put LDS at Android because they do identify as Christian, but we are really stretching the definition of what technically counts as Christian.
Honestly I don’t know as much as I ought to about UU, but I didn’t think that they generally identify as Christian.
kittenzrulz123Nah Unix should be Zoroastrianism and Judaism should be Minix
That would imply Judaism copied Zoroastrianism’s homework. Since they came around the same time, it would be something else. Zoroastrianism should be AmigaOS. Judaism should be Unix. Would islam be Solaris? Would Wahhabism be Solaris post oracle?
To be fair Judaism did for the most part copy Zoroastrianisms homework
I guess. But it feels very different from Judaism as best as I can tell. And Zoroastrianism is still seperate from the big 3 monotheistic religions.
The guy is really just not right about that. There was a lot of cultural mixing going around back in the early iron age, but Judaism borrowed much more from the Egyptians, Babylonians, and the Greeks than they did the Persians. And it also has a lot of very unique features as well.
Yes there was also cultural exchange with the Persians that found it’s way into Judaism, but it’s just not correct to say it’s a copy.
What would Islam be? Gnu Herd?
Heaven’s Gate: TempleOS
MistressRemiliaIf I go distro->religion then I guess I’m Orthodox.
If I go religion->distro then I guess I need to start using a TI graphing calculator.
EponymousBoshI feel like you made this chart for me specifically, so thank you
ReactOS should be mormonism
It’s not Linux, thus not even “Christian”
Well to be fair, atheism and pagan also are assigned to non-Linux OSes here.
Yes, the title of the scheme is confusing.
Lemmd are often too literal. The meme makes perfect sense
What about Gnostics? I feel there is some severe underrepresentation for my favourite flavour of heretics.
DaeI’d love to see which heresies you think are which distro