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    I can't even feel superior to everyone when theirs so many arch installers!! I use real arch btw. I thought "I guess I should go to Gentoo" but then wait, CHROMEOS IS A GENTOO INSTALLER!

    I feel like we only have two options now

    1. Ascend to BSD-land
    2. Ironically supporting Windows Unironically

    edit: I have decided to replace my debian laptop with BSD

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    [–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 hours ago

    Haiku or some port of AmigaOS, sadly forgot its name and I’m too lazy to Qwant it.

    [–] Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

    My PC is an electro mechanical pinball table from 1971 (Williams Klondike, btw) running Puppy Linux.

    [–] how_we_burned@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 hours ago

    My PC is an electro mechanical pinball table from 1971 (Williams Klondike, btw) running Puppy Linux.

    You guys are snobs. No, seriously, youre totally elitist. You feel like the unappreciated scholars, so you shit on the people who know less than you.

    [–] k2r@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

    Never go full BSD!

    [–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

    LFS, Plan9, Inferno…

    There are many options.

    [–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

    OpenBSD is pretty cool.

    [–] udon@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

    Just live program your system from scratch every time you start your computer

    [–] DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works 12 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)
    [–] SanicHegehog@lemmy.zip 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

    I wonder what Terry would have thought of AI assistant coders.

    [–] DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

    hed call them satan spawn

    [–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 1 points 14 hours ago

    Yeah I feel that's one of the ultimate things right there. Rolling your own distro and then providing that out to the internet. Oh you use Arch? Or have you tried TitanicX?

    [–] Rooty@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

    Haiku OS! Backwards compatible with an OS that was abandoned in the early 2000s and was never popular in the first place! Zero ports! Use it for web browsing or something idduno!

    [–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

    I'm thinking Slackware or maybe make a tails like OS that gives you access to the Usenet instead of the internet?

    [–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 2 points 13 hours ago

    Redox exists.

    [–] BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

    go to windows this community will vouch for me

    [–] Hazor@lemmy.world 22 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

    Haiku. It's a reimplementation of BeOS.

    Alternatively, you could use ReactOS and make it look as windows-like as possible, and then go and post on Windows support forums with solutions to problems that work for ReactOS but not for actual Windows, and then play dumb while calling them dumb when it doesn't work for them.

    I use arch btw.

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    [–] BaraCoded@literature.cafe 9 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

    Arch? So weak. I do everything only using the bios.

    [–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

    BIOS? I wired switches directly to the data and address lines of my RAM/CPU and toggle in the machine code directly every time I use my PC.

    [–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

    You've got it easy. I have to hand wind my core rope memory every time I want to open a new application!

    [–] BaraCoded@literature.cafe 2 points 4 hours ago

    Pathetic, I run FreeBSD on my abacus. And it runs Doom, too!

    [–] SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    NixOS. And be really annoying about declarative software environments

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    [–] Ghostie@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    You could always switch to Slackware and be insufferable about it.

    [–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

    Hey, I'm perfectly capable of being insufferable without slackware!

    [–] Ghostie@lemmy.zip 2 points 14 hours ago

    I mean we are Linux users after all. It’s kind of our bag.

    [–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Abandon technology and become a farmer.

    [–] shithawk@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

    This is the actual answer btw

    [–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

    John Deere support technician wrings his hands greedily.

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    [–] kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 18 hours ago
    [–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Make your own, coward. No distro so niche as one that has half a user because it's hardly usable.

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    [–] ragas@lemmy.ml 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

    Wake me when Gentoo is suddenly the hot new thing.

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    [–] 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

    The only place left for you is freeBSD and writing your own tiling window manager

    [–] Techlos@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 17 hours ago

    There is another... 1000002638

    (There are dozens of us, I swear)

    [–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 11 points 1 day ago
    [–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

    Just keep a stash of healthy butterflies around, and occasionally get one to flap its wings.

    [–] irelephant@anarchist.nexus 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    There is two other paths:Β 

    • Gnu herd
    • Plan9
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    [–] davetortoise@reddthat.com 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    If you're not on TempleOS, you were never really serious about feeling superior

    [–] Zetta@mander.xyz 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    The closest we have come to god

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