If you wish to make an apple pie linux from scratch, you must first invent the universe

You're not supposed to, which means that lots of people probably do.

Mint should be a Mitsubishi Mirage. People make fun of it, sure, but it keeps working anyway.

The Delorian works too, but my brain jumped to something like this…

“Car as code” felt appropriate lol

Still wrong bedrock.

Next you'll be showing me a block of

Yes and yes.

It's a very easy way to have all the pen testing software you want when you wanna feel like a hacker.

With gnome feeling dated in terms of design, Ubuntu has that early Passat energy imo lmao. Very round and generic, will probably get you where you want to go but the ride will be boring.

To be fair, Ubuntu is using older kernels than Debian these days. Ubuntu has become the old man of distro's

I like to think it's fitting for the analogy that with NixOS/Guix, you get access to the entire factory to build your car, since you pretty much have a framework at your disposal to build up your system how you want it.

Edit: should've scrolled a bit further, someone already beat me to it lol. Great minds think alike.

Mint is best for my purposes. Making fun from it is silly

Being use debian and enjoying it so far.

Debian: Makes you look cool until you hit something and get thrown out and die.

Bazzite:

SteamOS:

Sounds stressful.

Is it not like having a stockpile of live weapons where you have to keep checking if the safeties are on?

In my experience, Arch (with pacman at least) is like clipping lego bricks together. Like "Oh, a wanna do this? Best get that".

NixOS:

What would CachyOS be?

Perfection. I have moved with one of these.

For some reason I associate the colour red to the Renault Express. C15 is off white.

Gentoo is like "here are the instructions about how to machine every little piece you'll need. Hope you have a good lathe!"

Slackware:

As many as are driving the correspondig vehicle legally on streets.

Android:

Then I can guess kubuntu would be a GTI?

C15 was probably white in 1986 and is now a mixture of dirt, moss, rust and soot. Inside, it smells an almost unbearable melange of engine oil, dust, ashtray, wet dog and crumbling pleather. Somehow it still runs perfectly, except for the radio.

If Debian has to be something on four wheels it'll be a lorry. Something that does nothing fancy but absolutely essential and is doing alright thank you very much.

According to ChatGPT the Mint car is a Chevy Spark. And now I am thinking I should be driving a Chevy Spark if it is anywhere near as reliable and easy to use as Linux Mint.

Yeah whatever Debian is it definitely has a roof and no fins out of the box.

Shit, you're right!

Bro round is literally the current trend. Add some glass effect and you got mac os design

I'm guessing Fedora is boring but reliable?

I viewed more as an Toyota.

Who wouldn't want to have their car assembled automatically beton scratch from scratch each time they need it ?

If Arch is this, what is Gentoo? An IKEA car?

Typically it's more:

Holy fuck this made me laugh my ass off.
(btw, if make any videos My Winter Car I'll be watching because that is an accurate description of my life at the moment.)

Interesting game, but they seemed to intentionally make it as anti-fun as possible. Assembling the car was cool. But, everything you had to do to get the car parts, keep yourself alive, etc. was pretty tedious.

Gentoo makes you compile the raw materials yourself

openSUSE

Tiny Core Linux(/Alpine/Void/etc)

OpenWrt

Who's this?

I used it as a daily driver for the last couple years on one of my laptops

I like Debian and work in cybersecurity. I'd have to install all these tools anyway, so it made sense. Turns out OffSec doesn't bother testing persistent installs. The stability as absolutely atrocious. I run into so many issues because they change things like the audio manager and I end up with both trying to run in parallel

Most people still say you're not supposed to use it because of security issues. Those aren't a concern these days. Lack of upgrade stability is the real reason not to have a persistent install, especially on bare metal

The perfect vehicle from a more civilised foss future.

Straight to the mines.

Just the schematics

MacOS

Not really. You're not at much risk of harming yourself with the tools, and if an attacker is already on your system able to execute arbitrary software, you're already pretty well pwned

Which isn't to say it doesn't present any risk, just that it's relatively negligible in a personal computing environment. In a corporate environment, you'd need strict controls on who can use those tools and when

It's an Arch distro. Talk half the parts there, throw them in the car, then put the other half in a bag of spare parts and you have Cachy

If it has to be a sedan-type vehicle, then it's 100% a Toyota Corolla - boring AF, but bulletproof and everyone has parts for it.

Fedora is the cutting edge consumer release of RedHat, so I wouldn't call it either boring or reliable