• Kanda@reddthat.com
    43·
    5 days ago

    Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Cinnamon, Edubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu Unity

  • umbraroze@lemmy.world
    26·
    4 days ago

    Long ago, I used Debian on my main PC but decided to go with Ubuntu on the laptop because it was easy to set up.

    Later I switched to Debian on the laptop, too, because ultimately I felt Ubuntu was just Debian with extra steps.

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
      10·
      4 days ago

      Here’s a picture of the linux distro family tree:

      There’s Debian, the distro.

      There’s Redhat/Fedora, which is commercial,

      there’s gentoo, where on installation, everything is compiled from source.

      There is slackware, mostly for historical purposes (it was the first distro),

      there’s arch for people who want to feel they’re better than others tinkerers,

      there is openSUSE, which is like redhat but german.

      • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.socialEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Slackware is the oldest distribution which is still active. I remember Yggdrasil came before it, and I’m looking it up, I see that Slackware was based on the earlier SLS.

      • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        4 days ago

        What’s with nexenta changing colour in between?
        Did it change ownership right before going down?

        Same for beafanatix, which changes the line colour right after the starting dot.

      • bluewing@lemm.ee
        6·
        4 days ago

        Unless you’ve worn the sackcloth and ashes of Slack, don’t even at me and my son…

        The flash backs to config files. Sooo many config files everywhere. But tarball are Yum!

      • tetris11@lemmy.ml
        310·
        4 days ago

        as a fellow user I’m always going to downvote this meme. It’s toxic at this point

          • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            3·
            4 days ago

            Its like a platitude but it’s not even well-meaning.

            I’m pretty sure my next metal band name is going to be called ‘death by platitudes’ (I’m kidding, but I trust you get the idea…)

            • Grassgrowz@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              3 days ago

              Cool, i learned a new word thanks to you!

              The phrase is quite the beaten horse at this point, overused and pointless, that i agree with. I think its been overused in part to highlight how silly it is, making the people who use it unironically look like absolute dorks.

              Its a little similar to how in Germany, theres a new synonym for cannabis, called ‘Bubatz’. Its origins are unclear, it sounds super silly and has been instrumentalized in the decriminalisation of cannabis. Many people have strong reactions when they hear that word, which in turn motivates other people to keep using that word. It boils down to people wanting to rile up other people for no reason!

          • tetris11@lemmy.ml
            33·
            4 days ago

            the first 10,000 times yeah I can get behind the silly view. The next 90,000 times, it just becomes this tired useless phrase uttered mindlessly to the point that you question the well being of the arch users who utter it. That’s what I mean by toxic. I consider my own sanity for using arch every time I hear this phrase.

  • boonhet@lemm.ee
    8·
    4 days ago

    Off the top of my head:

    OpenSuSE, Gentoo, Arch, Debian, Mandrake, Damn Small Linux, Puppy Linux, Backtrack Linux, Slackware, CentOS

    Some of these have changed names or stopped being supported, unfortunately.

  • Allero@lemmy.today
    5·
    4 days ago

    Let’s gooooo

    Debian (+Devuan), Ubuntu (+Kubuntu, Lubuntu), Linux Mint, Zorin, KDE Neon, Kali, Parrot, Tails, Raspberry Pi OS

    Fedora, RHEL, Nobara, Bazzite, Qubes

    OpenSUSE

    Arch (+Artix), Manjaro, Garuda, Endeavour, CachyOS, KDE Linux

    Slackware

    Gentoo, Funtoo

  • dewritoninja@pawb.social
    9·
    5 days ago

    Ubuntu Lubuntu Xubuntu Kubuntu uwuntu Wubuntu Edubuntu Gendbuntu PopOs Mint

    Those last two ruined the list smh

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    5 days ago

    Arch, Manjaro, KDE Neon, Lindows (the one that was getting sued by macrohard in the past), Mocachino (not added to DW yet but is on their list of ones needing approval or something/LFS based distro), MX Linux, Sparky, Mint, Gentoo, and Fedora were the first ones that popped into my head almost immediately.

  • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
    6·
    5 days ago

    Debian, Fedora, Arch, Gentoo, Slackware, LFS, Mandravia, OpenSuse, Knoppix, Puppy

    And an honorable FreeBSD mention

    I’ve spent a lot of time on the toilet looking at this.

    • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      Hey knoppix! My first distro, first experience of Linux. Something like 2004. Fellow student told me about it, I was already curious but hadn’t yet tried any distros yet; they burned me a disk and brought it to class the next day. Was really cool to run a different OS, and to just pop it in and go.

    • bluewing@lemm.ee
      1·
      4 days ago

      If you want to name them all, Red Hat, Debian, and Slackware where the OG popular distros that became the foundations of all the distros we have today. I ran them all back then.

        • bluewing@lemm.ee
          1·
          3 days ago

          Oh no, I haven’t forgotten SuSe. But it’s not an OG distro. It’s based off of Red Hat. Though I thought it was always a better version of Mandrake than Mandrake ever was. (I wonder what TexStar is doing these days…)

          I’ve installed and used it several times over the years and thought it was a fine distro. I have never understood why it’s not more to the forefront with it’s rolling release. If you like RPM based distros, SuSe is one to check out for sure.

      • Allero@lemmy.today
        2·
        4 days ago

        Arch came somewhat later but is now an established independent distro serving as a base for many many others (Endeavour, Garuda, Manjaro, BlackArch, CachyOS, KDE Linux <not to confuse with Neon> off the top of my head)