Debian must be the 1999 Toyota Corolla
this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2026
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Debian is also one of the most secure distributions in terms of user control and security against vulnerabilities, since it is the same OS that runs most of the servers in the world - and therefore gets very quick and reliable security updates.
what car would omarchy be? and what car would amogOS be?
omarchy
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.)
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
where's gentoo?
Still compiling.
LFS is just a dew blocks of plastic, iron, copper and the rest of the raw materials.
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."
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.
I wonder what centOS would be like? Somthing out of commission, but remembered fondly even though it was anything but special or elegant. But it worked. And if not you could fix it easily. Maybe a trabant?
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there's a joke about drivers in here somewhere
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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Fedora 
Proxmox?
Which would make this ESXI?
Especially since it's on its way out.
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openSUSE
Tiny Core Linux(/Alpine/Void/etc)
OpenWrt
Then this is Windows:
Btw, it got stuck in Antarctica.
What the hell, that thing Is real!? I thought those were just some concept drawings like you get for future space craft from the 70's.
Windows:
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Bazzite:
SteamOS:
Android:
Typically it's more:
Slackware:
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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This makes arch look pretty good.
I wouldn't say that arch is nearly like that. Maybe you have to put on the doors and hood yourself or something maybe...
It's like a kit car. It comes with the chassis and engine all intact, technically street-legal. You just get to decide whether you want windshields and doors, which some people consider pretty obvious and too much of a hassle to pretend they're "optional"
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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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Interestingly, mint is what I daily drive as my distro and the car for it is what I prefer in terms of driving daily (I love me a hatchback).
However, Debian is a distro I would drive more often if it were more practical, and that car is my favorite ever that I wish I could have on a practical level
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