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Season 10, Episode 28. Episode ID 225


Mini Topic

If you had to put a distro on your non-techy relative's computer, what would it be and why?

Topic

Linux Superlatives: Yearbook Edition

Not the awards show. Awards are about merit. Superlatives are about personality: who's the class clown, who peaked in high school, who's getting forked the second the teacher leaves the room.

Rules

  1. One category at a time. Everyone names a nominee, then argue. 2-3 minutes each.
  2. Two votes locks the winner. Three-way split: first nominator defends for 60 seconds, then revote.
  3. One Write-In per host. Add a category nobody prepped, no take-backs.
  4. The Yearbook Quote. Whoever wins the vote writes the winner's one-line yearbook quote.

Cold open: each host predicts one winner before we start.

Categories (12 active, 4 on the bench)

  • Most likely to be abandoned
  • Most likely to get forked
  • Class clown
  • Best dressed (DE or WM)
  • Peaked in high school
  • Most changed since freshman year
  • Teacher's pet (the corporate darling)
  • Most likely to succeed
  • Biggest drama queen
  • Best friends who don't talk anymore (a fork and its parent)
  • Most likely to still be in beta
  • Life of the party (the one everyone installs at 2am)
  • Worst at keeping secrets
  • Most like to live in (hometown) forever
  • Most likely to have their work put in a museum
  • Most Likely to be Late to Class

Bench:

  • Most likely to show up at the 20-year reunion unchanged
  • Loudest in the hallway, quietest in class
  • Voted "nobody knows what they actually do"
  • The transfer student (came from Windows/Mac and never left)

Full format plus three backup formats (Shark Tank for FOSS, Build TLC Linux Live, Dotfile Confessions) are in podcast-files/topics/ideas.md.

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