I'll add more distro from the suggestion in the comments.
If you want to do it yourself here the clean map.
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LAND of SLOPDOR
Add Nixos. Also put Slackware to Valley of the lost
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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.Β
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 π
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.
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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
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.
I did Ubuntu > Pop > Kubuntu > Mint > more distro hopping > Mint.
Itβs nice living on the beach. π
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 youβre not patient and willing to learn, getting dumped into the deep end, struggling for 3 hours and then giving up and βdowngradingβ 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.
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I'd swap Arch and Gentoo - I think Gentoo should be on the precarious peak and Arch at a more accessible altitude.
Gentoo belongs over on the Highs of Knowledge
Took me a minute to find openSUSE. It appears, the chameleon did its job
Who is Terminal George
The result of Curious George after his "Let's compile a Kernel!" hijinks!
Gentoo and LFS to the Highs of Knowledge
somehow needs this meme in it:
Where is my os? aha. Joke apart, you could add NetBSD somewhere very deep for fun
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I feel like NixOS should be down a mineshaft underneath the Highs of Knowledge
And Guix somewhere below that
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Where would Free BSD live?
And can Thx be some sort of sea monster/leviathan.
Awsome work.
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.Β
LAND of SLOPDOR
you forgot to put OSX on there.
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?
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Okay, first I thought this is trash, but the more you explore the better it gets. Here, take a Lemmy award: π
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.
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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.
If unraid is there I want openzfs to be there π
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!"
Lol nix is the dungeon. I love dungeon crawling. This tracks.
this is adorable
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)
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