Only 5 distros exist: Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, RHEL/Fedora, and built it yourself.
You listed Debian three times.
Do you count openSuSE as rhel? Also mint is just Ubuntu, and Ubuntu is not Debian because Ubuntu has more up to date drivers software and what not.
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Debian or Debian based
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Ubuntu based
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Fedora and atomic distros
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Arch
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Bonus: Nix
Extra:
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Linux Mint
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Bazzite
Void? Alpine? Guix?
Alpine sort of used but it is pretty niche and is mostly using in containers.
Void and Guix both have tiny market share and lack a use case
Arch is basically Debian with extra steps. Doesn’t count.
It is basically Debian except for it is nothing like Debian.
Right!
I don’t get it
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Eh … Mint is Ubuntu based, Ubuntu is Debian based so they’re all Debian … Also Arch? ^I ^use ^Arch ^btw
And OpenSUSE?
I mean, bait aside, creating a new distro with an existing package manager allows you to set up a different set of default packages and even add your own new/updated ones. That’s the value of it there.
Eh I guess, but really just define your own meta packages and use arch 😄
btw
(it was implied 😜)
This should be in c/ControversialOpinions.
Take it a step further and declaratively configure your entire installation with nixos
Literally tons of distros could be some
lib.mkDefaultnixos configs. And they would get a package manager improvement.
But that doesn’t deserve to count as a separate distro. At best it’s just a variant, like the relationship between Kubuntu and Ubuntu.
Ship of Theseus.
How much do you need to change to make a new distro? Is Linux Mint still Ubuntu? Or is Ubuntu still Debian?
ALSO BRING BACK HANNAH MONTANA
Hardware support is not really the province of distro, to me. Which makes them even more ridiculous.
This post and comments create a whirlwind of emotion. What do I believe!?
Lol no.
Or do, that guy isn’t your boss. If he is, what are you doing listening to him about non work stuff he seems like a gatekeeper kina guy.
Yep, your talent can be used elsewhere. Whether it’s a new program or contributions to open spurce
Cat on a table.jpg says:
“I’m going to create a new distro by changing the name of Debian”
Nah. Push them out like rabbits do with their babies. Let them fight and see which ones prevail!
Honestly I’m kind of excited for the infrastructure as code tools. I think it is only going to get easier to customize a install quickly.
We already have NixOS, why anything else?
(Guix is cool too).
Gentoo with an external build server. (for storage ir performanceconstrained systems)
A good wiki for it?
https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/NixOS_Wiki
Still lacking a bit of information about specific stuff.
Unofficial should have the same information, but sometimes there is a discrepancy.
https://search.nixos.org/options
For any option you might need the name of.
https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/options.html
For basically anything else where you just have the implementation documentation
Does it use Systemd? If so, then we need something else.
Service something from PCLinuxOS please, but with actual anaconda kick-starts.
Doesn’t have too! You can just use nix as a package manager and install it to whatever distro you choose 😉
I miss Pardus… Yali and Kaptan were the best
I wonder how many people genuinely used Pardus for just being Pardus until the Turkish government fucked it up
They can go ahead and create all they want. I just wont use any of them unless they give me a reason.
Exactly! Nobody has to listen to OP and change plans because OP doesn’t approve! Like you, OP is free to NOT use the product!
