Is Hannah Montana linux a good option for beginners?

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rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 123 pts · 341d (8 replies)

Someone tried it this year: https://www.xda-developers.com/i-tried-hannah-montana-linux-in-2025/

TL;DR complete failure. It hasn't been updated in 10 years.

nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 65 pts · 341d (2 replies)

Like a lot of Linux distros, this should have just been a window manager theme and maybe a helper app

Absolutely no sense bringing in stuff like init system and depmod and C compiler version when what you care about is UI theming

ikidd@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 341d (1 reply)

Sometimes, just maybe, people do things to see if they can.

nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 19 pts · 341d

oh and props for that... for doing and making new things in general

Just that distro-where-a-theme-would-do is something I see a lot of and people might wind up tackling a larger harder problem than they need to and not spending as much time & effort on the stuff they intended to.

And, a lot lot lot more people can easily download & appreciate a theme than move distros (though some perverse individuals make a habit of the latter)

schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de · 22 pts · 341d

One could have guessed from the image in the OP. KDE 4.2 is not exactly a recent piece of software anymore.

Peffse@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 341d

If using era-appropriate hardware, I wonder if you could use archived Kubuntu repos to upgrade one at a time until it's a modern Linux kernel.

Boxwine@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 341d

Thanks for the link, I was gonna try it lol

DrDystopia@lemy.lol · 7 pts · 341d

People should consider Justin Bieber Linux, at least it isn't that outdated.

stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 341d

Damn, Someone should really revive that it's iconic at this point.

bort@sopuli.xyz · 43 pts · 341d (4 replies)

i use nyarch btw

https://nyarchlinux.moe/

sunoc@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 341d

Came here to say that. If you actually plan to daily a meme distro Nyarch is probably your best bet imo!

StopSpazzing@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 341d

Lol never seen this before.

Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 340d
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Mwa@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 340d

I use Rebecca black os btw

xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 31 pts · 341d (4 replies)

No. Let me know if there's anything else.

comador@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 341d (2 replies)

How about Crunchbang or Linspire?

rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 8 pts · 341d

crunchbangplusplus and bunsenlabs exist as successors-in-spirit to crunchbang!

xxce2AAb@feddit.dk · 6 pts · 341d

Very infrequently and no, respectively.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 340d

i'm giving mint a try any day now

Luci@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 341d (5 replies)

Yes, it’s the best right next to PuppyLinux and LinuxFromScratch

Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org · 6 pts · 341d (1 reply)

What's wrong with Puppy Linux?

Luci@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 341d

Nothing! Great for live media and daily running. Recommend.

somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 341d (2 replies)

People doing LFS have ascended

swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 341d (1 reply)

I did it once. Never again.

somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 341d

Holy shit

Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de · 19 pts · 341d (1 reply)

It's canonical (to me alone) that the HML is the basis for LCARS in the Star Trek universe.

4grams@awful.systems · 4 pts · 341d

It is now for me too :).

bizzle@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 341d

It's probably pretty out of date maybe you should pick something better maintained as a beginner like LFS

krunklom@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 341d (2 replies)

If you're not using HML you don't even deserve to breathe.

aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 341d (1 reply)
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hanke@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 340d

You mean Beabian?

daggermoon@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 340d

It hasn't been updated in years.

Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org · 8 pts · 341d (4 replies)

I always wanted to know if Miley ever used this.

SuperDuperKitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 341d

The only footage of Miley checking if anyone talk about Hannah Montana Linux /j

Boxwine@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 341d (1 reply)

I think Hannah used it, but I don't know if Miley did

klu9@piefed.social · 2 pts · 341d

At least, never at the same time.

GreenShimada@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 341d

If you try and log in with the user name "Miley" it should give you secret root access.

sepi@piefed.social · 4 pts · 341d

Low key this might be one of the more serious distros. Mad respect from a long beard.

KindaABigDyl@programming.dev · 4 pts · 340d (2 replies)

Yeah I mean it's just a themed Kubuntu, right?

  • Ubuntu is pretty stable, but the latest is pretty up-to-date atm. It's also well supported and well understood by the wider linux community
  • KDE is a solid choice as it will be familiar to Windows users (afterall, Windows 11's GUI was based on Plasma)
  • The novelty of using a Hannah Montana themed linux distro is fun

It's a fine beginner distro

pressanykeynow@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 340d

It's KDE 4.2 though.

Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 340d

KDE is a solid choice as it will be familiar to Windows users (afterall, Windows 11's GUI was based on Plasma)

Would you say it's the best of both worlds?

Zachariah@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 341d

I prefer MCL

sheepishly@fedia.io · 3 pts · 341d (1 reply)
Boxwine@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 341d

The ball and pinball decided it, HML is for me

technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 340d

Yes but you have to play the theme song while installing.

cypherpunks@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 341d

imo this (.world link) is a better choice

cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 340d

Postimo@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 341d
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