Linux Archipelago

I'll add more distro from the suggestion in the comments.

If you want to do it yourself here the clean map.

Made with Gimp 3.0.6

LAND of SLOPDOR

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zonico@discuss.tchncs.de · 53 pts · 206d (2 replies)

Add Nixos. Also put Slackware to Valley of the lost

slothrop@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 206d

slackware smirks in the way that only the subgenius can.
praise bob.

gens@programming.dev · 9 pts · 206d

Slackware teaches more then debian or arch (trumped only by LFS or old school gentoo). But sure, not many use it.

01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 50 pts · 206d (5 replies)

Not really Linux, but TempleOS should be in the fog somewhere. Maybe technically off the archipelago, but close enough to be related to it in some way.

panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 26 pts · 206d (1 reply)

TempleOS actually enspirits a true hacker/unix philosophy, as bizarre as it is. 

captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 206d

The Island of TempleOS is in the middle of the Holy Sea.

normonator@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 206d (1 reply)

Add some more height to the image and put it on a temple in the clouds.

Siegfried@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 206d

This is the way... disconnected from internet and closer to god

ekZepp@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 206d

got it 👍

Canuck@sh.itjust.works · 42 pts · 206d (4 replies)

Gamers Bay of course with Steam and Bazzite. If there's a spot for mobile, Mobian & Postmarket are both top tier

ekZepp@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 206d (3 replies)

Steam OS feels more like a ship anchored in the archipelago. Bazzite is Indeed on land.

deus@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 206d (1 reply)

Why? SteamOS is based on Arch, it belongs here. I think a ship should probably be something like Android.

Canuck@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 206d

Maybe android in the welcome bay outside the disinformation?

Canuck@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 206d

Agreed

Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 31 pts · 206d

Meanwhile openSUSE is still in Germany, just lederhosen & none of this enchanting tropical nonsense.

I assume Hannah Montana is a mystical island only magical maps can lead to?

morto@piefed.social · 25 pts · 206d

Where's the GNU fortress, with trisquel, parabola and others?

Now let's make an rpg in that map, or maybe a new quest for supertuxkart

melfie@lemy.lol · 21 pts · 206d (1 reply)
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ekZepp@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 206d

lattrommi@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 205d

Manjaro is supposedly named after Mount Kilimanjaro and being arch-based, it would be appropriate to have it up on the mountain near Arch but lower.

Perhaps a $path going up the mountain range could be added.

The $path could be called "The Way" so you could put Arch BTW.

normonator@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 206d (13 replies)

Lol at arch on the mountain. Every fucking noob goes straight for Arch.

serpineslair@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 206d (6 replies)

Nothing wrong with that, best way to learn the ropes is being chucked into the deep-end imho. Provided of course they are patient and willing to learn.

Whitebrow@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 206d (5 replies)

Thing is, even if you’re not patient and willing to learn, getting dumped into the deep end, struggling for 3 hours and then giving up and “downgrading” to something like mint or bazzite is still a whole lot better than trying to unfuck windows 11 into a workable state.

normonator@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 206d (3 replies)

Basically this, they rage quit and go back to windows or even a Chromebook. I try to support customers on linux but they need to be talked away from Arch if they are just grtting started.

Arch forces people to learn what MOST dont want to and MOST people shouldn't need to, just to do basic tasks on a computer.

Switch to Arch later if you're curious and want the training wheels off, or don't if you just want to use your pc as an appliance and walk away.

serpineslair@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 206d (2 replies)

That's a fair take. If they are someone who just simply has no interest in computers and just want something that "just works" then yeah, they definitely shouldn't be told to get arch. I wasn't saying noobs should be talked into arch first time round by any means, more so that if they wanna start with arch, there's nothing wrong with that, and we should do our best to help them learn, instead of calling them noobs and dampening their interest/spirits.

pmk@piefed.ca · 4 pts · 206d (1 reply)

For most computer users, the OS itself isn't the hobby. It's a tool that lets them do things like writing, browsing, drawing, gaming, etc, projects of various kinds, concurrently simultaneously for reasons unknown, in a word using their computer. It does not help them to say that ed(1) is the standard editor and that vi is bloated.

serpineslair@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 206d

I agree

emotional_soup_88@programming.dev · 1 pts · 206d

"Unfuck into workable state" is gold. Hope it's open licensed. 🙏

sunstoned@lemmus.org · 5 pts · 206d (1 reply)

zen@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 205d

To be fair, this also represents Debian for me.

Siegfried@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 206d (1 reply)

Do they really? Most linux users that I know irl use Ubuntu and pretty much don't know of the existance of other distros.

favoredponcho@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 206d
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onnekas@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 205d

Think of Arch as the distro not as it's users. Sure you can install Arch as a noob by copy pasting from ArchWiki or nowadays just using fancy install scripts.

However, if you pay attention and maybe fuck up a few times then you will get that knowledge.

Also ArchWiki is a source of knowledge that is valid not only for arch but most other distos as well.

Unrefined@anarchist.nexus · 1 pts · 206d

Or Kali.

HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 206d

Gentoo belongs over on the Highs of Knowledge

Deebster@infosec.pub · 17 pts · 205d

I'd swap Arch and Gentoo - I think Gentoo should be on the precarious peak and Arch at a more accessible altitude.

toebhi@slrpnk.net · 14 pts · 205d

Took me a minute to find openSUSE. It appears, the chameleon did its job

RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com · 14 pts · 206d (1 reply)

Who is Terminal George

MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 206d

The result of Curious George after his "Let's compile a Kernel!" hijinks!

emotional_soup_88@programming.dev · 12 pts · 206d

Gentoo and LFS to the Highs of Knowledge

gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 205d

somehow needs this meme in it:

sunstoned@lemmus.org · 9 pts · 206d (1 reply)

I feel like NixOS should be down a mineshaft underneath the Highs of Knowledge

And Guix somewhere below that

protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 205d

Guix is in the sky with our saint GNUciussius

WillowBe@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 206d (1 reply)

Where is my os? aha. Joke apart, you could add NetBSD somewhere very deep for fun

emotional_soup_88@programming.dev · 3 pts · 205d

What rabbit hole have you lead me down... Now I can't stop reading about BSD.

panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 206d

Instead of a circus, Ubuntu should be a bunch of people who live in a cave and see the world through shadows on the wall. 

mech@feddit.org · 8 pts · 205d (2 replies)

At this point I'm just glad Slackware is even on the map.

abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 205d (1 reply)

Slackware in the Valley of the Lost.

"I'm not dead."

"Yes you are."

"I want to go for a walk!"

mech@feddit.org · 14 pts · 205d

thisbenzingring@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 206d (1 reply)

Gentoo should be on an island surrounded by a ring of rocks that makes it almost impossible to get to

unbuckled_easily933@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 206d

And Arch should definitely NOT be on a Higher peak in the mountains of knowledge than Gentoo.

GlenRambo@jlai.lu · 7 pts · 206d

Where would Free BSD live?

And can Thx be some sort of sea monster/leviathan.

Awsome work.

Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 205d

LAND of SLOPDOR

you forgot to put OSX on there.

Maragato@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 206d (3 replies)

Hello. One of the oldest Linux distributions, openSUSE, is missing.

ekZepp@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 206d

He's there, is mimetized.

captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 206d (1 reply)

Can you blame a Chameleon for blending in? Look to the right of Fedora.

Maragato@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 206d

Very good. You're right.

texture@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 206d

this is adorable

Samsy@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 205d

Okay, first I thought this is trash, but the more you explore the better it gets. Here, take a Lemmy award: 🏅

prowe45@piefed.social · 7 pts · 206d (1 reply)

I feel like Raspbian deserves a place on here somewhere, although I'm not sure where exactly. It's the distro I've installed the most times since I like to do Raspberry Pi projects, and I imagine there's quite a few people out there whose first major exposure to Linux was for the same reason. So maybe it should go near Welcome Bay?

lattrommi@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 205d

A lush verdant field between where the Puppies frolic and the SUSE chameleons' tree, where the people can harvest ripe Rasbianerries and fresh Mint.

Strider@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 205d

If unraid is there I want openzfs to be there 😁

mrcleanup@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 205d (1 reply)

Garuda should be up near Bazzite

ekZepp@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 204d

👌

Blaster_M@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 206d

Move TempleOS to a floating sky temple, and make where it is Portable Bay, where various portable linux ships are moored, named Knoppix (a galleon), Puppy Linux (a fishing boat), Slax (a little sailboat), and TinyCore (a rowboat or kayak)

showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website · 6 pts · 206d (1 reply)

What no love for Commodore OS

It’s my new favourite Linux

MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 206d

That's so rad. :D

w3ird_sloth@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 206d

Lol nix is the dungeon. I love dungeon crawling. This tracks.

SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 206d

Thought this was the island from Pokémon Snap, at first

BaraCoded@literature.cafe · 5 pts · 206d

Oh god, I'm in the hidden Manjaro slums

SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 206d (1 reply)

Unraid probably is in the pay resort area as well.

voytrekk@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 206d

Red Hat as well

SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 205d

This reminds me of my "Linux island" city in Cities Skylines! I can get screenshots later, but basically there's the main island of the Linux distros/districts, where the outer parts are more noob friendly and the inner parts are more "advanced", with the nearby, considerably more crowded and poorer Android island consisting of various Android ROMs.

the_q@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 206d (1 reply)
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CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 206d

How so? The Arch wikis are considered some of the best documentation of any software. So the "Highs of Knowledge" is fitting.

candyman337@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 205d (1 reply)

Nobara Linux is missing from gaming

ekZepp@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 205d

👍

mlg@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 206d

Kali, ParrotOS, and BlackArch are the B-52s flying overhead out of the frame

Tealk@rollenspiel.forum · 3 pts · 206d (1 reply)

How does Debian get so far up north?

Siegfried@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 206d

Yeah.... how did we get that up north? Im a 15 year debian noob. I just spawn on the top of the mountain apparently and now I live in fear of looking down.

Widdershins@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 206d

Biebian should be somewhere among the stars like Hannah Montana Linux

Digit@lemmy.wtf · 3 pts · 204d (1 reply)

And underneath the whole archipelago,

__          __             __
\ \_________\ \____________\ \___
 \  _ \  _\ _  \  _\ __ \ __\   /
  \___/\__/\__/ \_\ \___/\__/\_\_\
Angelevo@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 204d

Rock and Stone!

BonkTheAnnoyed@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 204d

I love this! Super fun!

I so want to see how you depict Yggdrassyl, though, the very first and only distro released by Linus himself

Blaster_M@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 202d (1 reply)

Add YellowDog and Clear Linux to the valley of the lost

ekZepp@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 201d

👍

panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 206d

can you add silver blue and co to the dark forest next to Fedora

I’ve added so much to my OS tree it looks like a forest where you can get lost forever. 

Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 206d (1 reply)

Void should be a like a barely connected fishing village.

ekZepp@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 205d

👍

Gueoris@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 206d

I would add DeepinOs in an ultra-modern, automatic-opening building shaped like a trash can.

Takapapatapaka@tarte.nuage-libre.fr · 2 pts · 205d

Is ZorinOS really considered a paid distro? It's my main one and though it has indeed a paid version, the fact that it brings nothing more than extra desktop presets and preinstalled softwares made me think that it was closer to a donation system with rewards than to actual paid version. I wonder if that's a shared sentiment or if I'm thinking less strictly than most people.

DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 203d

Why are Ubuntu and Kubuntu so far away?

ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 205d (2 replies)

Where are the "elitist gatekeepers" screaming "you need to learn shell scripting and vim!" with an Omarchy logo?

zen@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 205d

O🤮ARCHY

ekZepp@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 204d

👍

Fedizen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 204d

Grabbing my machete and wading into the jungles of Fedora.

sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 205d

Can we maybe have Void Linux as like, an entrance to a foreboding cave of some kind?

I'm... trying to figure out if you could make the 'topology' here work with non system d variants of linux, but I can't figure out how.

randomwords@midwest.social · 2 pts · 205d (7 replies)

Void Linux! There are single digits of us!

sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 205d (6 replies)

I haven't attempted to run Void Linux in years, so, a question for you:

Can you run Steam on it?

randomwords@midwest.social · 2 pts · 204d (5 replies)

Yes you can. It is in the non-free repo.

sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 204d (4 replies)

Neat! I did not know that!

Maybe I'll give it another spin sometime =D

randomwords@midwest.social · 2 pts · 204d (3 replies)

I would recommend using the glibc version if your goal is gaming.

sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 204d (2 replies)

Hah, yeah, I figured the muscl (sp?) variant would still be... basically impossibly broken, haha!

randomwords@midwest.social · 2 pts · 204d (1 reply)

The musl c library version isn't broken there are just some applications that aren't compatible. Steam games on proton just have a much higher chance of being incompatible and the void devs can't prod them to fix their code.

sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 202d

Right, I meant that the experience of trying to game using musl c is broken, by way of incompatibilty, not by way of musl c being itself broken per se.

If you wanted to get... musl c gaming on linux to work... presumably you would have to create some kind mapping / translation layer from ... standard c to musl c?

I don't really know.

orenj@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 206d

huh, why's manjaro got battle damage on its logo?

Techlos@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 206d

slackware catching some flak there

TheGuyTM3@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 204d (2 replies)

The uwuntu-nyarch-Linuwux triad are caves hidden below the mountain

ekZepp@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 204d (1 reply)

added uwu

TheGuyTM3@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 204d

Oh suggested thoses as a joke, thank you!

not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 206d (2 replies)

Void Linux should be between debian and arch as it is "rolling stable release"

tehn00bi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 205d (1 reply)

Void needs a deep dark cave.

sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 205d

Fuck, didn't see your comment, but I made the same comment.

Some kind of cave/canyon area for non system d linux variants.

ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 206d (1 reply)

What distro is represented by the Tux of the Deep there? Just lurking beneath the waves?

mech@feddit.org · 3 pts · 206d

Deepin Linux, of course.

deathbird@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 204d

I feel like Slackware needs to be higher up the mountain than Debian.

Trisquel and Dragora should be in Fredonia since they run on all free software by default.

zen@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 205d

Needs Alpine

crispy_caesus@feddit.org · 1 pts · 204d (2 replies)

I'd love to see alpine on there

ekZepp@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 204d (1 reply)

👍

crispy_caesus@feddit.org · 1 pts · 179d

🐐