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
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?
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” 😂
Also, all three pictured devices are probably running Linux… Or at least could.
More likely running Wind River’s VxWorks. Which, as far as I know is the big dog in the RTOS space. The OS being deterministic is super important in safety critical applications like flight computers and cars. Wind River does have a linux distro, but I don’t think VxWorks is. Although, they’ve kind of got caught being complacent and others are moving into the space like Red Hat In Vehicle Operating System.
For a few brief beautiful moments, I assumed you were talking about the firmware running on the Fisher Price toy.
As your answer included more details, my understanding became a delightful confusion and then realization.
the big dog in the vehicle space is more likely QNX, which is still up to date.
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.
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.
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
fuck around and find out should be gentoo,
Or Slackware.
I remember when Gentoo came out and people said it was the simple one
OpenSuse, hell yeah
Tumbleweed is amazing. Got me onto Linux for good.
I’ve moved on to CachyOS now. But Tumbleweed truly does not get recommended enough.
There is Windows IoT.
And don’t you wish it weren’t.
What do we have here? Arch, Mint and Puppy?
As it should be
