Linux Archipelago
5mon 7d ago by lemmy.world/u/ekZepp in linuxmemes
I'll add more distro from the suggestion in the comments.
If you want to do it yourself here the clean map.
Made with Gimp 3.0.6
LAND of SLOPDOR
Add Nixos. Also put Slackware to Valley of the lost
slackware smirks in the way that only the subgenius can.
praise bob.
Slackware teaches more then debian or arch (trumped only by LFS or old school gentoo). But sure, not many use it.
Not really Linux, but TempleOS should be in the fog somewhere. Maybe technically off the archipelago, but close enough to be related to it in some way.
TempleOS actually enspirits a true hacker/unix philosophy, as bizarre as it is.
The Island of TempleOS is in the middle of the Holy Sea.
Add some more height to the image and put it on a temple in the clouds.
This is the way... disconnected from internet and closer to god
got it 👍
Gamers Bay of course with Steam and Bazzite. If there's a spot for mobile, Mobian & Postmarket are both top tier
Steam OS feels more like a ship anchored in the archipelago. Bazzite is Indeed on land.
Why? SteamOS is based on Arch, it belongs here. I think a ship should probably be something like Android.
Maybe android in the welcome bay outside the disinformation?
Agreed
Meanwhile openSUSE is still in Germany, just lederhosen & none of this enchanting tropical nonsense.
I assume Hannah Montana is a mystical island only magical maps can lead to?
Where's the GNU fortress, with trisquel, parabola and others?
Now let's make an rpg in that map, or maybe a new quest for supertuxkart
Lol at arch on the mountain. Every fucking noob goes straight for Arch.
Nothing wrong with that, best way to learn the ropes is being chucked into the deep-end imho. Provided of course they are patient and willing to learn.
Thing is, even if you’re not patient and willing to learn, getting dumped into the deep end, struggling for 3 hours and then giving up and “downgrading” to something like mint or bazzite is still a whole lot better than trying to unfuck windows 11 into a workable state.
Basically this, they rage quit and go back to windows or even a Chromebook. I try to support customers on linux but they need to be talked away from Arch if they are just grtting started.
Arch forces people to learn what MOST dont want to and MOST people shouldn't need to, just to do basic tasks on a computer.
Switch to Arch later if you're curious and want the training wheels off, or don't if you just want to use your pc as an appliance and walk away.
That's a fair take. If they are someone who just simply has no interest in computers and just want something that "just works" then yeah, they definitely shouldn't be told to get arch. I wasn't saying noobs should be talked into arch first time round by any means, more so that if they wanna start with arch, there's nothing wrong with that, and we should do our best to help them learn, instead of calling them noobs and dampening their interest/spirits.
For most computer users, the OS itself isn't the hobby. It's a tool that lets them do things like writing, browsing, drawing, gaming, etc, projects of various kinds, concurrently simultaneously for reasons unknown, in a word using their computer. It does not help them to say that ed(1) is the standard editor and that vi is bloated.
I agree
"Unfuck into workable state" is gold. Hope it's open licensed. 🙏
To be fair, this also represents Debian for me.
Do they really? Most linux users that I know irl use Ubuntu and pretty much don't know of the existance of other distros.
A lot of Ubuntu users know of other distros, but they like their free time
Think of Arch as the distro not as it's users. Sure you can install Arch as a noob by copy pasting from ArchWiki or nowadays just using fancy install scripts.
However, if you pay attention and maybe fuck up a few times then you will get that knowledge.
Also ArchWiki is a source of knowledge that is valid not only for arch but most other distos as well.
Or Kali.
Manjaro is supposedly named after Mount Kilimanjaro and being arch-based, it would be appropriate to have it up on the mountain near Arch but lower.
Perhaps a $path going up the mountain range could be added.
The $path could be called "The Way" so you could put Arch BTW.
Gentoo belongs over on the Highs of Knowledge
I'd swap Arch and Gentoo - I think Gentoo should be on the precarious peak and Arch at a more accessible altitude.
Who is Terminal George
The result of Curious George after his "Let's compile a Kernel!" hijinks!
Took me a minute to find openSUSE. It appears, the chameleon did its job
Gentoo and LFS to the Highs of Knowledge
somehow needs this meme in it:
I feel like NixOS should be down a mineshaft underneath the Highs of Knowledge
And Guix somewhere below that
Guix is in the sky with our saint GNUciussius
Where is my os? aha. Joke apart, you could add NetBSD somewhere very deep for fun
What rabbit hole have you lead me down... Now I can't stop reading about BSD.
At this point I'm just glad Slackware is even on the map.
Slackware in the Valley of the Lost.
"I'm not dead."
"Yes you are."
"I want to go for a walk!"
Instead of a circus, Ubuntu should be a bunch of people who live in a cave and see the world through shadows on the wall.
this is adorable
I feel like Raspbian deserves a place on here somewhere, although I'm not sure where exactly. It's the distro I've installed the most times since I like to do Raspberry Pi projects, and I imagine there's quite a few people out there whose first major exposure to Linux was for the same reason. So maybe it should go near Welcome Bay?
A lush verdant field between where the Puppies frolic and the SUSE chameleons' tree, where the people can harvest ripe Rasbianerries and fresh Mint.
Okay, first I thought this is trash, but the more you explore the better it gets. Here, take a Lemmy award: 🏅
Gentoo should be on an island surrounded by a ring of rocks that makes it almost impossible to get to
And Arch should definitely NOT be on a Higher peak in the mountains of knowledge than Gentoo.
LAND of SLOPDOR
you forgot to put OSX on there.
Hello. One of the oldest Linux distributions, openSUSE, is missing.
He's there, is mimetized.
Can you blame a Chameleon for blending in? Look to the right of Fedora.
Very good. You're right.
Where would Free BSD live?
And can Thx be some sort of sea monster/leviathan.
Awsome work.
Lol nix is the dungeon. I love dungeon crawling. This tracks.
Garuda should be up near Bazzite
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If unraid is there I want openzfs to be there 😁
What no love for Commodore OS
It’s my new favourite Linux
That's so rad. :D
Move TempleOS to a floating sky temple, and make where it is Portable Bay, where various portable linux ships are moored, named Knoppix (a galleon), Puppy Linux (a fishing boat), Slax (a little sailboat), and TinyCore (a rowboat or kayak)
How so? The Arch wikis are considered some of the best documentation of any software. So the "Highs of Knowledge" is fitting.
Thought this was the island from Pokémon Snap, at first
Unraid probably is in the pay resort area as well.
Red Hat as well
Oh god, I'm in the hidden Manjaro slums
This reminds me of my "Linux island" city in Cities Skylines! I can get screenshots later, but basically there's the main island of the Linux distros/districts, where the outer parts are more noob friendly and the inner parts are more "advanced", with the nearby, considerably more crowded and poorer Android island consisting of various Android ROMs.
Kali, ParrotOS, and BlackArch are the B-52s flying overhead out of the frame
Nobara Linux is missing from gaming
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And underneath the whole archipelago,
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\ \_________\ \____________\ \___
\ _ \ _\ _ \ _\ __ \ __\ /
\___/\__/\__/ \_\ \___/\__/\_\_\
Rock and Stone!
Biebian should be somewhere among the stars like Hannah Montana Linux
I love this! Super fun!
I so want to see how you depict Yggdrassyl, though, the very first and only distro released by Linus himself
How does Debian get so far up north?
Yeah.... how did we get that up north? Im a 15 year debian noob. I just spawn on the top of the mountain apparently and now I live in fear of looking down.
Void Linux! There are single digits of us!
I haven't attempted to run Void Linux in years, so, a question for you:
Can you run Steam on it?
Yes you can. It is in the non-free repo.
Neat! I did not know that!
Maybe I'll give it another spin sometime =D
I would recommend using the glibc version if your goal is gaming.
Hah, yeah, I figured the muscl (sp?) variant would still be... basically impossibly broken, haha!
The musl c library version isn't broken there are just some applications that aren't compatible. Steam games on proton just have a much higher chance of being incompatible and the void devs can't prod them to fix their code.
Right, I meant that the experience of trying to game using musl c is broken, by way of incompatibilty, not by way of musl c being itself broken per se.
If you wanted to get... musl c gaming on linux to work... presumably you would have to create some kind mapping / translation layer from ... standard c to musl c?
I don't really know.
Add YellowDog and Clear Linux to the valley of the lost
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What distro is represented by the Tux of the Deep there? Just lurking beneath the waves?
Deepin Linux, of course.
can you add silver blue and co to the dark forest next to Fedora
I’ve added so much to my OS tree it looks like a forest where you can get lost forever.
Void Linux should be between debian and arch as it is "rolling stable release"
Void needs a deep dark cave.
Fuck, didn't see your comment, but I made the same comment.
Some kind of cave/canyon area for non system d linux variants.
Void should be a like a barely connected fishing village.
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I would add DeepinOs in an ultra-modern, automatic-opening building shaped like a trash can.
huh, why's manjaro got battle damage on its logo?
slackware catching some flak there
Is ZorinOS really considered a paid distro? It's my main one and though it has indeed a paid version, the fact that it brings nothing more than extra desktop presets and preinstalled softwares made me think that it was closer to a donation system with rewards than to actual paid version. I wonder if that's a shared sentiment or if I'm thinking less strictly than most people.
Where are the "elitist gatekeepers" screaming "you need to learn shell scripting and vim!" with an Omarchy logo?
O🤮ARCHY
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Can we maybe have Void Linux as like, an entrance to a foreboding cave of some kind?
I'm... trying to figure out if you could make the 'topology' here work with non system d variants of linux, but I can't figure out how.
Grabbing my machete and wading into the jungles of Fedora.
The uwuntu-nyarch-Linuwux triad are caves hidden below the mountain
added uwu
Oh suggested thoses as a joke, thank you!
Why are Ubuntu and Kubuntu so far away?
I feel like Slackware needs to be higher up the mountain than Debian.
Trisquel and Dragora should be in Fredonia since they run on all free software by default.
Needs Alpine
I'd love to see alpine on there
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