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    [–] Patrik@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

    Debian, Devuan, Arch, Manjaro, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Mint, Raspbian, LibreElec, Tuxedo OS.

    [–] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 239 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

    [–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 27 points 3 weeks ago

    Absolutely disgusted how you set the pic on the same line

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

    I think you mean GNU/Linux

    [–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 88 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

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

    [–] sxan@midwest.social 65 points 3 weeks ago (1 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.

    [–] cqst@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

    Uh no, it's not. GNU has been integral to the GNU/Linux project for years. Without GCC, coreutils, glibc, there would be no linux distributions. Systemd has not played the same role.

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    [–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago

    well actually I've taken to calling it "GNU+Linux"

    [–] cqst@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 weeks ago

    Debian GNU/Linux has been called Debian GNU/Linux since at least 1997 https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/1997/msg00013.html

    [–] nesc@lemmy.cafe 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    People actually do call it gnu/linux semi-often, dunno why.

    [–] semperverus@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    I almost always do it facetiously and for meme purposes.

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    [–] Kanda@reddthat.com 67 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

    [–] rowanthorpe@lemmy.ml 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    ...which are all layers on Debian.

    [–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 29 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
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    [–] overload@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    These are the same picture

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    [–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 41 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
    [–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

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

    [–] Statick@programming.dev 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    I'm a Linux user and that infographic scares me

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    [–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 41 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
    [–] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

    Shine on you crazy diamond

    [–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 31 points 3 weeks 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.

    [–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 31 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

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

    [–] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)
    [–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    Me too! I love my Steam Deck.

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    [–] Johanno@feddit.org 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
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    [–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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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    [–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 31 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
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    [–] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

    [–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

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

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    [–] Gloria@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
    • Lucy
    • Gibson
    • Project 2501
    • SAL-9000
    • Hal-9000
    • Skynet
    • Matrix
    • WOPR
    • Master Control Program
    • Citadel's central computer

    [List of fictional computers]

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

    Just say Linux and you covered most / many

    [–] everett@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
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    [–] dewritoninja@pawb.social 13 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Ubuntu Lubuntu Xubuntu Kubuntu uwuntu Wubuntu Edubuntu Gendbuntu PopOs Mint

    Those last two ruined the list smh

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    [–] boonhet@lemm.ee 13 points 3 weeks 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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    [–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

    The OS formerly known as Linux

    [–] amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 weeks ago

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

    [–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    Arch, Manjaro, KDE Neon, Lindows (the one that was getting sued by macrohard in the past), Mocachino (not added to DW yet but is on their list of ones needing approval or something/LFS based distro), MX Linux, Sparky, Mint, Gentoo, and Fedora were the first ones that popped into my head almost immediately.

    [–] Kevnyon@lemm.ee 8 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

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

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