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    [–] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 238 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    That's On Me, I Set the Bar Too Low

    [–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 27 points 6 days ago

    Absolutely disgusted how you set the pic on the same line

    [–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 39 points 6 days ago (1 children)
    [–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Man, this infographic is like, EXACTLY why people are scared of Linux, lol.

    It has a lot of good info but it's just so overloaded. Can't decide what story it wants to tell so it tells like 7 of them.

    [–] Rooty@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

    It reminds me of conspiracy charts that gets posted on Facebook by your aunt.

    [–] Statick@programming.dev 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    I'm a Linux user and that infographic scares me

    [–] Petter1@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

    I love it, and I don’t even use dabian based distros 🀣

    [–] Kanda@reddthat.com 64 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Cinnamon, Edubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Unity

    [–] rowanthorpe@lemmy.ml 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    ...which are all layers on Debian.

    [–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 28 points 6 days ago (2 children)
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    [–] overload@sopuli.xyz 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    These are the same picture

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    [–] DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 84 points 6 days ago (3 children)

    I think you mean GNU/Linux

    [–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 88 points 6 days ago (11 children)

    Look Richard no matter how many times you post this, no-one is going to start calling it GNU/Linux.

    [–] HStone32@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago

    He's just mad that the Linux community upstaged HURD

    [–] sxan@midwest.social 64 points 6 days ago (9 children)

    In fact, systemd is arguable a more important component covering more aspects of system function in a lot of distributions: home mounting, boot process, logging, init, cron... I'm going to start calling it systemd/Linux, just to mess with Stallman.

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    [–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 31 points 6 days ago

    Long ago, I used Debian on my main PC but decided to go with Ubuntu on the laptop because it was easy to set up.

    Later I switched to Debian on the laptop, too, because ultimately I felt Ubuntu was just Debian with extra steps.

    [–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 41 points 6 days ago (2 children)
    [–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    So I knew about HML for a while, but today is the first time I learned that the creator also made a song.

    The world has never before and never will again see such talent.

    [–] rivan@lemm.ee 12 points 6 days ago

    Shine on you crazy diamond

    [–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 30 points 6 days ago (4 children)

    There are only three. Debian-based, Redhat/Fedora-based, and then the rest nobody cares about...

    [–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 6 days ago (8 children)
    [–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    Me too! I love my Steam Deck.

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    [–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

    Here's a picture of the linux distro family tree:

    There's Debian, the distro.

    There's Redhat/Fedora, which is commercial,

    there's gentoo, where on installation, everything is compiled from source.

    There is slackware, mostly for historical purposes (it was the first distro),

    there's arch for ~~people who want to feel they're better than others~~ tinkerers,,

    there is openSUSE, which is like redhat but german.

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    [–] Johanno@feddit.org 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    Other than my Steam Deck, I daily drive NixOS and it runs on all my servers. Can confirm the glory (hole).

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    [–] Zink@programming.dev 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    Arch-based is only going to become more of a thing thanks to SteamOS.

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    [–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 31 points 6 days ago (2 children)
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    [–] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    I could just rattle off random words and they’re probably real distros somewhere

    You could almost play the game: "Linux Distro or Weed Strain?"

    [–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

    My daily hobby is to go through the english dictionary and make a new distro for each word.

    [–] boonhet@lemm.ee 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    Off the top of my head:

    OpenSuSE, Gentoo, Arch, Debian, Mandrake, Damn Small Linux, Puppy Linux, Backtrack Linux, Slackware, CentOS

    Some of these have changed names or stopped being supported, unfortunately.

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    [–] dewritoninja@pawb.social 13 points 6 days ago (3 children)

    Ubuntu Lubuntu Xubuntu Kubuntu uwuntu Wubuntu Edubuntu Gendbuntu PopOs Mint

    Those last two ruined the list smh

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    [–] Gloria@sh.itjust.works 15 points 6 days ago (3 children)
    • Lucy
    • Gibson
    • Project 2501
    • SAL-9000
    • Hal-9000
    • Skynet
    • Matrix
    • WOPR
    • Master Control Program
    • Citadel's central computer

    [List of fictional computers]

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    [–] DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)
    [–] Metostopholes@midwest.social 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

    Okay okay, we only needed 10.

    Edit: Though Ubuntu falls under Debian, so that's redundant.

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    [–] introvertcatto@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    Just say Linux and you covered most / many

    [–] everett@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)
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    [–] Kevnyon@lemm.ee 8 points 6 days ago (10 children)

    Arch, Ubuntu, Mint, Kali.... Honestly all I got.

    Let's Backtrack a little bit

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    [–] amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 6 days ago

    WSL, Mac OS, Richard Stallman, GNU, the cloud

    [–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

    I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as...

    The OS formerly known as Linux

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