I always find it funny when people do that with Windows, Mac, and Linux. It completely misses the fact that Linux can be all of these things.
OS for kids: https://www.sugarlabs.org/
Just works: https://www.linuxmint.com/
Fuck around and find out: https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
Also Linux:
“The root password is password, don’t let your dreams be memes little guy, good luck.”
real
Also, all three pictured devices are probably running Linux… Or at least could.
windows CE is truly the stuff of nightmares
In the early century I’ve seen companies bundle an entire pc (with case and all) inside their own products just to avoid dealing with windows CE.
…but if you mix it with ME and NT you have a solid OS.
Ugh.
Just works should change from mint to cachyos, fuck around and find out should be gentoo, linux from scratch is you building it from literally nothing, not even torvalds do that (he uses fedora).
Should also have another one, the best:
OpenSuse Tumbleweed
I use it on my work machine, against all managerial shenanigans, truly the best distro.
Edit: I’m drunk, so I’m making the worst comments ever seen
Pretty sure Torvalds originally built Linux from not Linux
Torvalds, looking at Linux From Scratch like “Bish please.”
Yeah, minix, etc. I’m drunk, so don’t take my comments as anything serious.
And minix is a unix fork. Unix itself being a child of Multics.
Minix is not a Unix fork, it’s a Unix-like (along with Linux). Tanenbaum wrote Minix from scratch as an educational tool. It’s userland these days is basically NetBSD but at the kernel level, Minix has a very different architecture to Unixes.
Something something don’t cite the deep magic to me
I remember when Gentoo came out and people said it was the simple one
Tumbleweed is amazing. Got me onto Linux for good.
I’ve moved on to CachyOS now. But Tumbleweed truly does not get recommended enough.
OpenSuse, hell yeah
fuck around and find out should be gentoo,
Or Slackware.
Lol. As a newbie who is using mint, I assumed that was the kid toy
Mint is the majority of my Linux experience, too.
Linux accommodates everything, up to abd including infantilization fetishes.
Me, using mint in my full diaper and pacifier, while commenting to normies on the internet why they need to uninstall every Google app on their phone:
Oh, it is.
And I like it.
Nah, it does all the stuff,and can still open terminal to play.
I really thought this meme meant that Linux is running on all of those things and I though “what crackhead at Fischer Price put a raspberry pi in a children’s toy” 😂
Linux nowadays is the toyish easy case, but it comes with a screwdriver to open it and have as much complicated system as you want.
As it should be :)
On WAN show last week, Luke mentioned he’s daily’ing Linux on his work laptop. In the past, he has used Mint because “it just works” but always had problems so he would give up.
He expected to try Mint again, but decided to go nuclear and try Arch. For him, Arch just worked.
Just goes to show that different distros can mean different things to different people.
That’s also been my experience on multiple systems. But one thing that’s seemingly inevitable for me with Arch, things will eventually become flaky and I cannot solve it without a reinstall.
For instance, when I first got my RX 9070XT on a 3 year old arch install, it worked great. Then Cyberpunk would crash the graphics driver, but only during the benchmark or moving around. 3 months later there was no change. Bought a new PSU cuz I was running one 100w under spec (PowerSpec 650w bronze… bought a Corsair RM1000x) and nope.
I eventually got fed up and decided to go the immutable route. Works great again.
I have not had to really mess with CachyOS for over a year, while “stable” distros were a nightmare for me.
…Yeah it just depends what you’re trying to get your system to do. Arch can range from incredibly hazardous to “it just works” depending on the person and thing, and so can Mint. I think most distros should be viewed that way.
It needs a fourth image with no user interface
No-user-interface Linux would look like this
SSH wrench for the win
A horse carriage?
Maybe the first prototype car?
No, something witb physical levers, or an imposing tangle of wires and displays.
Steam locomotive, after the boiler blows looking all Lovecraftian.
Yes! Or chernobyl?
As it should be
My car’s infotainment system (a newish Honda Jazz) is running Android (which I understand is based on Linux — this is me saying “yes, and…” to the OP). I’m unsurprised by this, but also for some reason, I find it quite funny how it doesn’t look like Android — until you go delving in the settings and hidden menus to discover that the developer’s settings (and how you enable them) is exactly the same as my phone.
What do we have here? Arch, Mint and Puppy?
