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 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.
A built-from-scratch Linux that doesn't rely on any of the other branches and just does is own kinda specific thing. (You can probably suggest something better. I was kinda running out of ideas for that one.)
If you use Slack then you are probably a person that finds benefit in self-inflicted struggles. You seriously might find benefit and meaning in the Orthodox Church.
Arch is the denomination that is super proud of itself, despite being messed up for most people.
OpenSuse is Baptist due to it's general reliability and flexibility.
ChromeOS is Southern Baptist because it's barely recognizable as Linux.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Only the kernel is called Linux. The userspace is completely different from GNU/Linux but the actual software named Linux is being used. Alpine Linux isn't GNU/Linux either.
I think NixOS might be Unitarian Universalist. Dreamed up in a doctoral thesis, seems neat, half a dozen ways to do anything (none of which are truly wrong), access to all the packages in the world, terrible documentation.
contemporary gnostics would accuse orthodox linuxians of using hannah montana linux, whilst they recognize her as the demiurge, the accidental creation of the fallen aeon of wisdom miley cyrus, who herself eminated from the ineffable monad billy ray cyrus and was redeemed back into the glory of the pleroma like a wrecking ball by the logos linus torvalds christos amen
I guess I fall between Arch and openSUSE (so rolling release), that is what you get when you are born in a small country, all the way in the back waters, you make things work in anyway you can.
Heaven's Gate: TempleOS
Unitarian 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!
I 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.
I looked up Lineage and see it’s also an Android variant. What’s the Pentecostal logo?
Pentecostal is KaOS.
A built-from-scratch Linux that doesn't rely on any of the other branches and just does is own kinda specific thing. (You can probably suggest something better. I was kinda running out of ideas for that one.)
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Think about it a little more....
A prosperity gospel church is still a church, unless you're referring to WSL as the equivalent of "Linux".
I do not consider those churches to be Christian. Their theology is significantly removed from orthoxy that it's unrecognizable.
But even still, as with WSL, you can find some Christianity in there if you work really hard to find it.
Exhibit 9370 supporting officially renaming the "no true Scotsman" logical fallacy to "no true Christian"
If only Christians centuries ago agreed on a basic statement that could define what is orthodox Christianity...
If 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.
If you use Slack then you are probably a person that finds benefit in self-inflicted struggles. You seriously might find benefit and meaning in the Orthodox Church.
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?
Northern baptists were decentralized abolitionists, while southern baptists were centralized and pro-slavery.
Arch is the denomination that is super proud of itself, despite being messed up for most people. OpenSuse is Baptist due to it's general reliability and flexibility. ChromeOS is Southern Baptist because it's barely recognizable as Linux.
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.
Wait... Orthodox is the oldest? The Catholic rhetoric is that they are the oldest denomination. I feel bamboozled!
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
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.
ReactOS should be mormonism
It's not Linux, thus not even "Christian"I just noticed, that the scheme also includes e.g. "Atheism" and "pagan", which aren't Christian denominations either.
Well to be fair, atheism and pagan also are assigned to non-Linux OSes here.
Yes, the title of the scheme is confusing.
I really thought more people in this group would get that joke.
Lemmd are often too literal. The meme makes perfect sense
I was really proud of a lot of these jokes by the way. Many are multi-layered.
Which I would appreciate ... if I had the least idea about Christian sects in the US.
Then you aren't my main target audience.
I disagree. You have MacOS as "Spiritual but not Religious".
MacOS is Hillsong.
Also, many of these are not Christian, and many of these are not Linux.
I can see that.
I'm aware.
It's a classic!
Hannah Montana Linux is still the goat
FreeBSD is definitely Satanism
It's very Christian to not understand the difference.
Wait, ChromeOS was explicitly created to support the institution of chattel slavery? Who knew?!
Sounds about right to me.
It was created by google. That's not impossible or even particularly improbable
Presbyterian Biker ? (Bazzite)
The motorcycle chose you?
Checks out
Where does that put Judaism? Just a bare Linux kernel without the rest of the OS?
Judaism is Unix.
Nah 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?
I like reading the comments from people that got the joke.
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.
Oh, of course!
What would Islam be? Gnu Herd?
Edit: I made the joke in a different comment but Islam would be Solaris and Wahhabism would be post oracle Solaris.
First up: FreeBSD is NOT a Linux distribution, and secondly, is NetBSD so small that it is nowhere to be found?
Berkeley software distribution ≠ Linux (or gnu+Linux, which is btw not true for all distros.)
That's part of the joke.
When was Windows 11, Lineage/Android, MacOS or a fucking TI calculator a proper Linux distro
Only the kernel is called Linux. The userspace is completely different from GNU/Linux but the actual software named Linux is being used. Alpine Linux isn't GNU/Linux either.
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Indeed, my love
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I feel like you made this chart for me specifically, so thank you
I have to find my damn calculator from 20 years ago?
Don't worry, you can buy a new one, but they're still the same price...
But at least with inflation...
Slackware really should be Church of the Subgenius.
Too on the nose.
How do I know this isn't proganda from Big Christianity?
guess this chart makes me metheodist thoWell, I am Anglican...
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I was unaware that the CoC would be cool enough to have motorcyclists.
Depends on the CoC.
It's kinda a weird one in a lot of ways.
Spot on as a FreeBSD and macOS user but those are UNIX rather than Linux (though I use Alpine Linux pretty heavily too).
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
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 bsd
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?
FreeBSD is not linux, so atheism in this case means that they do not pray to linux gods at all.
Right. FreeBSD having a devil logo was really just a coincidental bonus.
Apparently I'm a non denominational evangelican btw
Where would you put Pop!_OS?
Also, there’s a wide spectrum of Lutherans and they often don’t get along.
Pop_OS! would be United Churches of Christ. Derived from Ubuntu, and generally accepted as reliable and easy for newbies.
Tihi
Interesting. I use Mint. I'm not a Methodist.
My wife on the other hand is a Methodist lay speaker so...
Unfortunately I belong to Windows denomination
Is CachyOS Unitarian Universalist? Or watching church on TV on Sunday morning?
I think NixOS might be Unitarian Universalist. Dreamed up in a doctoral thesis, seems neat, half a dozen ways to do anything (none of which are truly wrong), access to all the packages in the world, terrible documentation.
EndeavorOS: Taoism/Buddhism?
ok but linux mint was my first distro and i did grow up methodist through my parents
Running Fedora, was raised Presbyterian. 🤯
It's immutable.
Your distro chose you.
What about Gnostics? I feel there is some severe underrepresentation for my favourite flavour of heretics.
That would be Linux from Scrarch, I think.
Contemporary Gnostics would be Hanna Montana Linux.
contemporary gnostics would accuse orthodox linuxians of using hannah montana linux, whilst they recognize her as the demiurge, the accidental creation of the fallen aeon of wisdom miley cyrus, who herself eminated from the ineffable monad billy ray cyrus and was redeemed back into the glory of the pleroma like a wrecking ball by the logos linus torvalds christos amen
I love this. Thank you for writing it.
Amen.
I'd love to see which heresies you think are which distro
To stay consistent with the running joke of the meme, heresies would be forks that don't work and I wouldn't recommend for anyone to use.
Like WSL being prosperity gospel.
As a catholic I must agree with the chart
Happy Lent.
I guess I fall between Arch and openSUSE (so rolling release), that is what you get when you are born in a small country, all the way in the back waters, you make things work in anyway you can.
Backwater folk making things work the best they can.
I think that's a pretty good description of non-denom/Baptist churches. User checks out!
Also OP, ChromeOS is moving from Gentoo to android. What does that make it now?
Funnily enough, this leads to more android x86 development.
We'll have to wait until AluminumOS is actually released to place it on the chart.
My guess is that it becomes First Baptist in Dallas.
Islam is Android
Android is very technically Linux. So it can't be Islam.
Islam is still an Abrahamic religion, but doesn't recognize Jesus as more than a prophet. So, NetBSD.
A bit more than a prophet as he did bring a book/message but pretty much this. Same rank (if you can call it that) as Abraham, Moses and Mohammad.
I'll take being a calculator, it really did resolve my main issues with debian
This just makes me feel like a heretic because it doesn't line up
What's your distro and I'll reassign you.
Lol it's mostly a joke, no worries. I use OpenSUSE but got assigned Debian, which is completely fine
OH yeah. Fucking christians. Get ALL THE WAY fucked with your awful abusive religion.
Ok.
You know that Christianity is quite a broad religion right? Most Christians are pretty reasonable people.
And no, I'm not a Christian.