Now we're just missing Gentoo and Linux From Scratch
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Kind of you to assume Arch Linux is going to tell you what the outcome is going to look like :D
I want that one:
How is the distro called?
Gentoo:
More like LFS
Newbie: Hi I just want a distro to go shopping and for family tasks.
Mechanic: You want a racing car. Lift the hood and I'll show you how to operate all the adjustments. Racing cars need lots of tuning and youll need wide tyres too.
Newbie: Can't I just drive to the shops?
Mechanic: But you need to learn under the hood first. That's what Linux is all about.
Newbie: there is also no room for shopping in this racing car.
Mechanic: there is if it's just text files. Don't bother with all that jpeg and binary bloat.
Newbie: You know, as much as I hate Windows, either I didn't need a mechanic, or got one who didn't insist open the hood to operate it.
Mor like gentoo or lfs... Arch nowadays is foolproof
Debian is more like a honda accord or toyota prius.
Reliable, and only real car guys know they're cool.
Also the development department lets you borrow the current new generation prototype if you want and suddenly it's all current tech.
Reliable, and only real car guys know they're cool.
Civic, then, or Corolla
Civic, prius, yaris, corolla, accord (basically 90% f japanese cars) can be fit in this category
Makes sense why I like arch then because I dream of being able to have the time and money to build a car
You wouldnβt download a car.
Which one is GNU Guix?
Guix is enthusiastic, principled, lean, very reliable, it is rolling release, completely defined and automatically built from source, but with cached binary standard packages. You have something like Python's virtual environments in a terminal/shell, but with any distro package, and you can go back to any old version.
You also have to pray that your wifi works if using the default libre kernel. I'd liken it to a VW Beetle with a V12 engine swapped in to get it to run
Damn, I might need to hop to Kali
TempleOS.
I wonder if the job requirements for that role are really strict, or really relaxed.
Like, "you must have 10+ years experience cycling, live in the Vatican, be a Catholic, and know CQC to a deadly degree"... or.... "be Nunzio's neighbours boy and be willing to wear a dress."
How would SuSE Tumpleweed in a VM on top of OpenSuSE Leap look? (That is a system which is a very stable base (a bit like Debian) but with a very current rolling release edition on top of it - which is a great solution for combining productivity (shit just works) with a highly actual development environment.)
openSUSE would be a family SUV Porche
Do you have a picture?
Yeah I think it is a bit optimized for comfort.
what car would omarchy be? and what car would amogOS be?
Fedora 
Proxmox?
Which would make this ESXI?
Especially since it's on its way out.
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LFS is just a dew blocks of plastic, iron, copper and the rest of the raw materials.
Those 60s classic cars, though iconic, relied on a very different planned lifespan compared to modern cars. It was much shorter than the cars of today.
A better analogy for Debian would probably be an older Honda Civic model. Itβs older and lacks many flashy or hyper-modern features, but itβs reliable, maintainable, and actively supported.
openSUSE
Tiny Core Linux(/Alpine/Void/etc)
OpenWrt
Arch is kinda more like looking at a catalogue of parts.
Endevour is the same catalogue of parts, but with a flier inserted with a "recommmended loadout" where you can just check some boxes and get whatever it was you wanted, but the doors there to sawzall the trunk off and attach a cargo box if you want.
Gentoo is just a pile of steel and aluminum beams, a few drums of oil, a cow, and a note that reads "Good luck."
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Then this is Windows ~~10/11~~:
Btw, it got stuck in Antarctica.
Ok, right, mine is 7 instead.
Vista, more likely. Win 7 wasn't a chonky one (for the hardware of the time).
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Bazzite:
SteamOS:
I dunno, my first thought for Bazzite after switching from Windows a couple of months ago was more like this:
And immutable distros in general would be like this:
Faster by far than getting stuck in Windows traffic and It Just Works(tm) to get you where you want to go, but it's more difficult to go off the beaten path.
I'm a huge fan of immutable distros, but I'm not sure they're mass transit.
Maybe:
It gets you where you want to go, but you don't have to handle the toil of dealing with traffic.
Slackware:
Debian should be a small truck (i.e. one that's actually used for cargo, not as a penis prosthetic), and the bottom right is clearly Gentoo!
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Drive -fwd
Sudo drive -fwd
Drive -left
Drive -stop
Drive -brake
Sudp drive -brake
Udo drive -brake
Sudo dribe -brake
F U C K
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