My PC is an electro mechanical pinball table from 1971 (Williams Klondike, btw) running Puppy Linux.
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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.
LFS, Plan9, Infernoβ¦
There are many options.
OpenBSD is pretty cool.
Never go full BSD!
Just live program your system from scratch every time you start your computer
I'm thinking Slackware or maybe make a tails like OS that gives you access to the Usenet instead of the internet?
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!
TempleOS or make your own
I wonder what Terry would have thought of AI assistant coders.
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?
go to windows this community will vouch for me
Arch? So weak. I do everything only using the bios.
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.
You've got it easy. I have to hand wind my core rope memory every time I want to open a new application!
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.
fuck thats a good idea
The only place left for you is freeBSD and writing your own tiling window manager
There is another... 
(There are dozens of us, I swear)
LFS only.
Just keep a stash of healthy butterflies around, and occasionally get one to flap its wings.
NixOS. And be really annoying about declarative software environments
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RedoxOS
You could always switch to Slackware and be insufferable about it.
Hey, I'm perfectly capable of being insufferable without slackware!
I mean we are Linux users after all. Itβs kind of our bag.
Make your own, coward. No distro so niche as one that has half a user because it's hardly usable.
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Abandon technology and become a farmer.
This is the actual answer btw
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Temple OS?
What about trying Harmony OS?
There is two other paths:Β
- Gnu herd
- Plan9
I have GNU Hurd running on a distributed compute platform of 40 salvaged optiplex 9010 workstations.
160 cores 320 GB DDR3
It shares space with a gigabyte board stuffed with SAS cards providing NFS shares.
I'm still working on the details, but my Luanti server should be up soon.
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ReactOS
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