That might be the sign I waited to switch to Linux.
Now... let me just search for the coolest noob friendly distro

Arch Linux

• breaks if you don't update it often enough
• breaks if you update

That checks out.

Suggestion for the top-right corner: ImmigrationOS by Palantir.

• Made for people too unfit and dumb for even be a police officer.
• Made for a literal genocide.
• Its devs and users will hopefully face consequences.

Mint. Really. It basically just works. A decrapified Ubuntu.

I'm on CachyOS right now, and love it. I call it "Script Kiddie Arch". Really nice, but it took some tweaking for my particular setup, no driver stuff, rather my use case.

Since it may require mild terminal stuff, and using the AUR, I'd say it's an intermediate/advance user distro, although it may just work for you.

Only asterisk I'd add to that is that if your plan is to do any more gaming than just basic stuff I'd go straight to CachyOS, or maybe Fedora KDE, openSUSE Tumbleweed or anything similar.

Mint is great for basic usage, but right now that kinda also locks you into X11. So if you plan to use multiple monitor at different framerates, VRR, HDR or generally better frame-pacing you need Wayland, preferably KDE or Gnome, and Mint just isn't there yet. Emphasis on the -yet- though. Once they've overcome that hurdle it'll probably become THE unconditional beginner distro once again.

See this as a combination. Tell me another independent mainstream OS? There is none, then it must be Linux because it's the nearest possible.

Top left, Huawei HarmonyOS

Thanks for the advice! I plan on basically gaming half of the time, so... I'll look into it. And try dual boot just to try everything.
Btw, I have all my files on an SSD, together with window 11. Hope it will be possible to keep my files in the process 🫠

I don't really think it'll be possible to fill the mainstream side with how things are going

Wasn't there a north korean OS that would perfectly fill the upper left space?

I use nobara. Which, if you google 'best linux for gaming', its the first thing that pops up. I have no idea if its actually the best, but i havent had any issues so far.

Interesting, are their really no other major differences than the container images? Have you ran into any additional hurdles with the atomic experience? You may have convinced me to try Bazzite or SecureBlue.

Right there, just outside the graph!

Regular use: Mint

Gaming: Nobara, Bazzite

This is the biggest bait ever hahaha.

Android below red hat in corporate/authoritarian and equal to Ubuntu 😂 the OS that is trying to take away installing apps not from them and trying to fully track app developers while not giving a damn about malware that effects the user because it doesn't effect their bottom line?

Ah wow. I recognize it now.

I personally adhere to the idea of avoiding installing too many overlayed packages. Most i have installed in like five (with dependencies) at once. If you are comfortable with still using mostly Flatpaks and (only) a few overlayed packages, then Atomic may still be for you.

I really do recommend Secureblue.

Well, I guess AOSP vs Googles Android.

That would include not installing Nvidia drivers though, no?

never happened to me on arch

has happened to me on cachyos tho, with plasma 6.6 (switching back to arch, plasma 6.6 has no issues)

apple upper left makes sense, since it's only actually popular in the US.

windows upper right makes sense, since it's the most used desktop OS.

BSD lower left makes sense, since it's extremely rare for anyone to use it.

linux lower right... makes sense, but only if you consider servers. linux desktop usage would be closer to lower middle, or, depending on the distro, closer to the middle in general

TempleOS is outside of the box

I’m an Arch-using anarchist. Please help.

Wrong place for it, God's own OS should be maximum authority

Further left, you can find KolibriOS, AROS and way, way further down-left you can find DuskOS

Yes, just get the Nvidia version of Secureblue/Bazzite and you are good.

steamos goes either above ubuntu or to the right of it or where ubuntu is

Ooo and below the bottom left we have OpenBSD. =D

mint, pop_os, bazzite, fedora, nobara, mx, cachy, zorin

the coolest of those is cachyos probably

bazzite and cachy are intended for gaming but also sutied to other usage

more in detail:

• mint is basically ubuntu without the bad things (snap and canonicals other bullshit)
• pop_os is basically the same thing done differently
• bazzite is immutable (parts of the filesystem are read only, features easy update rollback) and fedora based and intended for gaming
• fedora is a simple and universal desktop distro that tends to try out new interesting technologies
• nobara is fedora with a few improvements
• mx is a simple and easy debian based distro
• cachy is arch but not difficult, has normal stuff preinstalled unlike arch, and is intended for gamers and is intended to let normies be power users
• zorin is another de-canonical-ed ubuntu but weird, it is kinda corporate

Yeah and MacOS is not more locked down than ChromeOS. That shit is useless. At least you can mess with Unix and terminal commands on Macs

Also you can install it in hackintoshes but that’s not an official thing so I don’t fault that point.

NGL, Dusk looks like a really cool project. Especially fun about 10 years after the whole "own nothing and be happy" bullshit takes root.

Update: I now have nobara. Kept windows in case I dont like it on the long term or something goes wrong.
Nobara looked kinda more "noob oriented" than cachy.
Had some issue to launch games that were previously installed, did some random things and it worked.

Everything went much easier than I expected!

A rolling release distro like openSUSE Tumbleweed is not for noobs.

I know this is one of my hotter takes, but IMO rolling release vs. stable has no influence on how beginner-friendly a distro is, at least not in a one-size-fits-all manner.

Particularly for gaming, I'd say a rolling release distro is a much better fit because bugs with new games and hardware will be gone much faster than what you'd see in something slower moving.

Do it! It's so easy. It's also easy to build it up in your head like it's this big complicated thing. It's not. When I finally did it my first thought was "why didn't I do this sooner?"

I've been happily using mint for years. Do it.

Oh yeah. That's right. But wrong place I think, like the other comment mentioned.