[Linux-aus] Editor & distro wars

[Tim Bowden]

On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 19:47 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> On Thursday 13 May 2010 07:21:19 pm Paul Coldrey wrote:
> > I thought Matthew was in my corner - after all Mr Potatoe Head has
> > always been the best kids toy (accept, of course, for the derivative
> > "Darth Tater").
> > 
> > Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
> > > Ah distro wars! How I was missing them!
> > > S.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Matthew Lye <matthew.lye at ubuntu.com
> > > 
> > > <mailto:matthew.lye at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
> > >     SHHH Slackware isn't a distro, its a Mr Potatoe head.
> All distros are the best it just happens mines better than yours :)
> 
> but then we can start the editor wars and browser wars. but in the end, we all 
> win because we can chose whats right for us.
> 
> Dennis

A few years ago PLUG solved the editor wars with a game of laser tag.
If your team won, you could claim on the list that your editor was best,
no further justification was required.  If you lost, you could still
advocate your editor of choice, but for a period of 12 months you were
required to add words to the effect that "however it has been
scientifically proven that <winning editor> is better".

We had three teams.  Vim, Emacs and other.  Vim won.  As expected.  It
was good fun.  Even the losing teams decided it was still a good night
out.

We were hoping to do paintball to settle the best distro war (two
teams, .deb v .rpm), but didn't get enough numbers at the time.  Perhaps
it will still happen.

Regards,
Tim Bowden