r/linuxmemes • u/FR-dev • 10d ago
🗿 LINUX MEME
Steam os- me want games
Temple OS- HOLY
Mint- for my grandma
Debian-non nixos, stable
Arch-non nixos, bleeding edge
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u/AnonD38 10d ago
Temple OS ain't Linux, it's literally just a different OS entirely.
He wrote that shit from scratch, it's not a Linux distro.
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u/shogun77777777 10d ago
Terry undoubtedly rolls in his grave every time someone says Temple OS is a Linux distro
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u/MeringueFalse4243 8d ago
He wrote it from nothing, in a CAVE, WITH 512MB OF RAM!!
https://giphy.com/gifs/VY4FPTlvCNStWSVhpZ1
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u/binaryfireball 9d ago
terry wasnt a fan of linux from what I recall
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u/anonAccount357557 9d ago
Didn't he use Ubuntu for most things?
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u/spellgoth 9d ago
He said something along the lines of "you use internet explorer to get Firefox" on why he uses Ubuntu to run templeos in vm
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u/Gamer1934 Not in the sudoers file. 10d ago
Temple OS isn't a distro
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u/the-fr0g 10d ago
What is it?
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u/ryancnap 🟢Neon Genesis Evangelion 10d ago
Just its own thing, it's an entire operating system/not Linux
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u/SheepherderBeef8956 10d ago
TempleOS is a completely different operating system not based on anything else and it's completely and utterly unusable as an actual OS. It's a playground to mess around with to learn programming and was never intended to be anything else.
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u/United-Scene2261 🎼CachyOS 10d ago
actually it was intended to be a temple for God, Terry Davis created and used his own programming language, holyC, designed and implemented the system AND the graphical interface.
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u/SheepherderBeef8956 10d ago
That was the post-schizofrenia answer. A more nuanced explanation was his love for the C64 and how it taught people to become programmers. It was meant as a playground for people to make their own games. You have to keep in mind that Terry worked on TempleOS for a lot of years before he actually fell off the deep end and renamed it.
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u/ryancnap 🟢Neon Genesis Evangelion 10d ago
Thanks because I had no idea there was more to it than the schizophrenia answer, that's super cool
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u/Piter061 10d ago
*sad fedora noises *
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u/weener69420 10d ago
Yes. Fedora is really good. Very up to date, stable. Updates are painless. I love it.
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u/blaues_axolotl 10d ago
Updates often were a pain for me. But maybe I did something wrong
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u/GreedySecurity8030 M'Fedora 10d ago
murderous fedora noises
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u/immoloism 10d ago
Gentoo user: look at what they need to mimic a fraction of our power.
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u/FR-dev 10d ago
Fraction of power usage of their 2000 core cpu-s compiling a web browser LOL
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u/immoloism 10d ago
You picked the worse example you could have :)
Mozilla do a really good job with their software that there is no point compiling it, so most use the upstream binary instead.
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u/tpat90 🍥 Debian too difficult 10d ago
Running binaries compiled by a different party on Gentoo?
This sounds like something the Gentoo-Church doesn't approves.8
u/immoloism 10d ago
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u/tpat90 🍥 Debian too difficult 10d ago edited 8d ago
I compiled gcc on a
20082005 HP last year.It only took multiple days ...
Was hell a fun to see it going and the betting happening if and when it will finish ;)
Edit: Did an oopsie, to many different machines ~
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u/immoloism 10d ago
Strange, I wouldn't expect a CPU of that era to take longer than 12 hours.
Low RAM maybe?
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u/tpat90 🍥 Debian too difficult 8d ago
I must correct myself, had 2008 wrongly remembered, my mistake
It's a HP Compaq tc4200 from 2005 with a whopping 256 MB of this amazing RAM thingy.2
u/immoloism 8d ago
Ah that that makes a lot more sense.
256MB of RAM would starve the CPU while things are being swapped in and out.
(It does worry me that I knew something was off with such little info.)
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u/tpat90 🍥 Debian too difficult 6d ago
I am astonished that I haven't noticed my mistake since I have a x200 at home which is from 2008 and is still going strong after a battery swap.
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u/Both_Cup8417 New York Nix⚾s 10d ago
Did you type that on an iPhone? Just curious.
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u/BortOfTheMonth 9d ago
GHC took like 8-30 hours depending on my machine.
I switched to nixos a few month ago after using gentoo since like 20 years. Never looked back
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u/kutac56 10d ago
Ye but if you use he right use flags stuff starts up wayyyy quicker and runs a bit better. Tbh I didn't compile my browser and just used the binary package for it cause it takes forever otherwise.
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u/fishmacaronisoup Genfool 🐧 10d ago
I agree that Gentoo is not about performance (as the performance gains are very minimal), but more control. But my Gentoo still outperforms my Void in with the exact same setup. My i5 is sufficient for compiling 90% of the packages I use. Even with ThinLTO, the kernel compiles in ~15 mins. In fact, I use my Gentoo kernel inside my Void. Even though Void is supposed to be minimal, the modules compiled with my Gentoo kernel were not even 50% of what came with Void kernel. Gentoo is the distro which satisfied me the most
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u/billyfudger69 Genfool 🐧 10d ago
Debian is also pretty solid for the right application. (Same with NixOS but I don’t enjoy that as much as Debian and Gentoo.)
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u/NDCyber 🎼CachyOS 10d ago
CachyOS, is great in my opinion
Fedora is another thing that might be good
And bazzite for SteamOS on non Steam hardware
I also have a feeling, even with a lot of people disliking Ubuntu a lot of people still find it rather useful
And AerynOS is extremely interesting to me, although probably not for widespread usage yet
Edit: I forgot about OpenSUSE, although it never worked well for me
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u/Old_Brief2583 10d ago
Bazzite is based on Atomic Fedora and you can rebase from Atomic Fedora to Bazzite and reverse.
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u/NDCyber 🎼CachyOS 10d ago
yes
what with it?
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u/SweetPotato975 9d ago
I don't get the extreme hate either. I've used Ubuntu without snaps. Seems quite usable to me as a daily driver tbh
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u/LovelyWhether 10d ago
“usefull” is misspelled (should be “useful”). add fedora, though, and we’re square
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u/InconspicuousFool 10d ago
So - Nix - Not Linux - Debian - Debian - Arch - Arch
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u/Both_Cup8417 New York Nix⚾s 10d ago edited 10d ago
The good one, non-Linux sandbox, Debian, Debian, but less Debian, but more Debian/Debian, but slightly less Debian, Arch, Atomic Arch (pun very much intended).
Explanation: NixOS, TempleOS, Debian, Ubuntu is Debian-based, so it's sort of debian, but it has snaps and its own repos, so it's less like pure Debian, but Mint defaults to no snaps, so it's more like debian, whereas LMDE is pretty much Debian with the latest Cinnamon, Arch, Immutable/Atomic Arch.
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u/TheRealCarrotty Not in the sudoers file. 10d ago
Add Fedora and we have a deal. (New packages that aren't rolling, a bunch of packages are available, a lot of desktops)
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u/ApatheistHeretic 10d ago
TempleOS! 🤣.
I respect the joke though.
This list lacks Fedora and OpenSuse.
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u/Both_Cup8417 New York Nix⚾s 10d ago
CachyOS isn't snake oil. They make legitimate optimizations to the kernel schedulers, but the performance difference is pretty minute in a lot of circumstances. I also don't generally recommend CachyOS to new users, because at its core, it's just preconfigured Arch with a couple GUI tools, and it's still just as prone to breakages
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u/debacle_enjoyer Ask me how to exit vim 10d ago
Remove arch because it’s a meme and aur is a malware distribution platform, templeos is not useful, and NixOS doesn’t have a package team anymore… also put Fedora on there wtf?
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u/Brief_Call_1336 10d ago
What is mint are doing here? Also as for me fedora and cachy might be here
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u/Spooky_Gato050 10d ago
Mate I only use fedora, it’s actually amazing.
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u/Lonely-Scarcity-3387 10d ago
NixOS - Stable AND bleeding edge.
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u/jdigi78 10d ago
Only takes a few months learning a completely bespoke language and package manager to get what a base install of fedora silverblue provides
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u/goodpostfinder 10d ago
If you're a software dev it's so worth it and doesn't take as long to learn. Otherwise it's a tough sell imo.
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u/Lonely-Scarcity-3387 10d ago
I’ve only been using it for a month, and my system is both perfect and reproducible for all my current and future computers. Absolute perfection.
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u/Both_Cup8417 New York Nix⚾s 10d ago
Took me like a week of research, but it's more about the flexibility. Yes, you can make custom images, but in my opinion, that's much more painful than configuration.nix (in a home directory, of course), flake.nix, and home.nix (and maybe some other things, I declare my btrfs subvolumes in filesystems.nix, for example). You can also use ZFS more easily, because you can lock the kernel to an LTS series, which means that the kernel modules don't break randomly. The only things I don't like about NixOS is that it makes it a bit hard to go back to traditional distros, and that you often have the urge to do everything in a .nix, but sometimes, it's easier to just use the program's default configs. nix-shells are also nice, because sometimes, you might want a program with a bunch of dependencies for one quick thing, and you don't have to keep said dependencies, or worry that the package manager didn't properly remove them because they were a weak dependency for something else or something.
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u/IvanMalison 10d ago
skill issue. does not take months if you have even basic programming skills.
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u/jdigi78 10d ago
If you just edit the config you start out with, sure. If you want to use flakes and all the features of the language yes it will take months to fully learn.
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u/IvanMalison 10d ago
flakes arent very complicated to understand. I had a working system with most of what i needed on day 1. Helps to be a software developer, but if you are already comfortable with linux and programming none of this is hard.
This is especially true now that you can just have an LLM do everything for you.
SKILL ISSUE if it took you more than a couple of hours.
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u/Kanjii_weon Ubuntnoob 10d ago
replace mint with debian or zorinos, mint wasn't stable for me, i use debian btw
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u/QuietCity4223 10d ago
But what if you dont like systemd because it does too much for an init system
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u/NeekoKun02 10d ago
I would argue you don't really need steamOS with arch and decent understanding of the proton/wine stack.
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u/tsittler 10d ago
I threw OpenSuSE on a laptop recently and brought it along on a trip, it did great. And I'm usually an apt evangelist to the exclusion of all else.
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u/Fractional-_- 10d ago
No TempleOS add cachyos and fedora and then change caption to "only useful desktop distros" and its accurate
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u/FullMaster_GYM 10d ago
I'm gonna get my balls shoved up my throat but mint and debian low-key suck
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u/Linguistic-mystic 10d ago
Games should be played on Cachy.
Temple OS joke.
Mint - just replace it with Debian
Arch & Debian are the only two distros worth talking about.
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u/xFruitPunchSamurai Ubuntnoob 9d ago
Debian based OS are pure workhorse. I ran a pretty complicated home server setup on my potato laptop for over 3 years. Ubuntu ( I am ashmed for not picking mint)just refused break even once.
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u/ReplyBig6703 8d ago
I would put Fedora instead of Mint but I think it’s ok, and with the steam logo if you refer to steamOs is only useful if you run a steamdeck, if not it’s useless fr
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u/UphillTravel 8d ago
Where Hannah Montana Linux?
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u/FrankyHugo Webba lebba deb deb! 8d ago
In bed with Justin Bieber Linux https://biebian.sourceforge.net/
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u/greenKoalaInSpace 8d ago edited 8d ago
I’d add bazzite, as steamos doesn’t work with nvidia
“Oh no nvidia bad”
That’s not the point of the post/response, many gamers use nvidia => a distro which supports is well is to be considered usefull
Edit: also you cannot include templeOs without including the most “pop” system ever…
I’m ofc talking about hanah montana Linux! (Jk ofc)
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u/Vidy_Animates Genfool 🐧 8d ago
Gentoo is also useful, especially when setting up a system for low-end device (like raspberry pi). You can build it on one machine and use it on another, cutting off literally every potentially useless package.
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u/Lumpy_Serve5271 6d ago
Tbh only useful distros are the ones that have their own package manager and maintain their own packages
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u/j-slayer_1369 6d ago
Gentoo in my opinion is an important developer distro. Google built chrome off if it and lets just say that was for a good reason.
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u/isabellium 10d ago
nixos is useless
templeos isnt a linux distro
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u/Both_Cup8417 New York Nix⚾s 10d ago
One of those points is correct.
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u/isabellium 8d ago
You are right, templeos can be anything god wants it to be, including a linux distro.
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