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by sacnoradhq 1057 days ago
There are FOSS projects that sound nice and desirable but are too impractical to use in the real world. I call them "libmagicponies".

On a related topic, I don't use Ubuntu, Debian, Alpine, Arch, Gentoo, Rocky, Alma, Fedora, or {Free,Open,Net}BSD. I use CentOS 9 stream for most things: it's basically RHEL's kernel and it powers 100M's-1 B machines.
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adrian_b 1056 days ago
Instead of saying "too impractical to use in the real world", which is obviously false, since many other people have been using at least a part of those in the real world for decades with excellent results, you should say that there are such projects that you have never felt the need to learn about, because you happened to find one that covered well your needs, so you never had any reason to explore alternatives, which is perfectly fine.
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appleflaxen 1056 days ago
That's a really funny comment, but it seems unnecessarily perjorative when there's an entire Linux distro built on this specific example of your magic pony.

Your position might be sufficiently extreme that it warrants reconsidering.

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