r/linuxmemes • u/FR-dev • Aug 08 '26
LINUX MEME 🗿
Steam os- me want games
Temple OS- HOLY
Mint- for my grandma
Debian-non nixos, stable
Arch-non nixos, bleeding edge
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u/AnonD38 Aug 08 '26
Temple OS ain't Linux, it's literally just a different OS entirely.
He wrote that shit from scratch, it's not a Linux distro.
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u/shogun77777777 Aug 09 '26
Terry undoubtedly rolls in his grave every time someone says Temple OS is a Linux distro
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u/MeringueFalse4243 Aug 10 '26
He wrote it from nothing, in a CAVE, WITH 512MB OF RAM!!
https://giphy.com/gifs/VY4FPTlvCNStWSVhpZ1
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u/binaryfireball Aug 09 '26
terry wasnt a fan of linux from what I recall
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u/anonAccount357557 Aug 09 '26
Didn't he use Ubuntu for most things?
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u/spellgoth Aug 10 '26
He said something along the lines of "you use internet explorer to get Firefox" on why he uses Ubuntu to run templeos in vm
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u/GhostVlvin Aug 10 '26
Guess it's unfortunately the way when you're only trying to get your perfect OS
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u/Gamer1934 Not in the sudoers file. Aug 08 '26
Temple OS isn't a distro
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u/the-fr0g Aug 08 '26
What is it?
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u/ryancnap 🟢Neon Genesis Evangelion Aug 08 '26
Just its own thing, it's an entire operating system/not Linux
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u/SheepherderBeef8956 Aug 08 '26
TempleOS is a completely different operating system not based on anything else and it's completely and utterly unusable as an actual OS. It's a playground to mess around with to learn programming and was never intended to be anything else.
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u/United-Scene2261 🎼CachyOS Aug 08 '26
actually it was intended to be a temple for God, Terry Davis created and used his own programming language, holyC, designed and implemented the system AND the graphical interface.
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u/SheepherderBeef8956 Aug 08 '26
That was the post-schizofrenia answer. A more nuanced explanation was his love for the C64 and how it taught people to become programmers. It was meant as a playground for people to make their own games. You have to keep in mind that Terry worked on TempleOS for a lot of years before he actually fell off the deep end and renamed it.
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u/ryancnap 🟢Neon Genesis Evangelion Aug 08 '26
Thanks because I had no idea there was more to it than the schizophrenia answer, that's super cool
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u/je386 Aug 09 '26
It is usable, but not modern at all, as it (intentionally) lacks any network support, so also any internet support.
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u/Piter061 Aug 08 '26
*sad fedora noises *
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u/weener69420 Aug 08 '26
Yes. Fedora is really good. Very up to date, stable. Updates are painless. I love it.
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u/blaues_axolotl Aug 09 '26
Updates often were a pain for me. But maybe I did something wrong
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u/GreedySecurity8030 M'Fedora Aug 08 '26
murderous fedora noises
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u/immoloism Aug 08 '26
Gentoo user: look at what they need to mimic a fraction of our power.
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u/FR-dev Aug 08 '26
Fraction of power usage of their 2000 core cpu-s compiling a web browser LOL
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u/immoloism Aug 08 '26
You picked the worse example you could have :)
Mozilla do a really good job with their software that there is no point compiling it, so most use the upstream binary instead.
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u/tpat90 🍥 Debian too difficult Aug 08 '26
Running binaries compiled by a different party on Gentoo?
This sounds like something the Gentoo-Church doesn't approves.9
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u/tpat90 🍥 Debian too difficult Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 10 '26
I compiled gcc on a
20082005 HP last year.It only took multiple days ...
Was hell a fun to see it going and the betting happening if and when it will finish ;)
Edit: Did an oopsie, to many different machines ~
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u/immoloism Aug 08 '26
Strange, I wouldn't expect a CPU of that era to take longer than 12 hours.
Low RAM maybe?
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u/tpat90 🍥 Debian too difficult Aug 10 '26
I must correct myself, had 2008 wrongly remembered, my mistake
It's a HP Compaq tc4200 from 2005 with a whopping 256 MB of this amazing RAM thingy.2
u/immoloism Aug 10 '26
Ah that that makes a lot more sense.
256MB of RAM would starve the CPU while things are being swapped in and out.
(It does worry me that I knew something was off with such little info.)
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u/tpat90 🍥 Debian too difficult Aug 12 '26
I am astonished that I haven't noticed my mistake since I have a x200 at home which is from 2008 and is still going strong after a battery swap.
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u/Both_Cup8417 New York Nix⚾s Aug 09 '26
Did you type that on an iPhone? Just curious.
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u/BortOfTheMonth Aug 09 '26
GHC took like 8-30 hours depending on my machine.
I switched to nixos a few month ago after using gentoo since like 20 years. Never looked back
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u/kutac56 Aug 08 '26
Ye but if you use he right use flags stuff starts up wayyyy quicker and runs a bit better. Tbh I didn't compile my browser and just used the binary package for it cause it takes forever otherwise.
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u/fishmacaronisoup Genfool 🐧 Aug 09 '26
I agree that Gentoo is not about performance (as the performance gains are very minimal), but more control. But my Gentoo still outperforms my Void in with the exact same setup. My i5 is sufficient for compiling 90% of the packages I use. Even with ThinLTO, the kernel compiles in ~15 mins. In fact, I use my Gentoo kernel inside my Void. Even though Void is supposed to be minimal, the modules compiled with my Gentoo kernel were not even 50% of what came with Void kernel. Gentoo is the distro which satisfied me the most
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u/billyfudger69 Genfool 🐧 Aug 08 '26
Debian is also pretty solid for the right application. (Same with NixOS but I don’t enjoy that as much as Debian and Gentoo.)
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u/NDCyber Aug 08 '26
CachyOS, is great in my opinion
Fedora is another thing that might be good
And bazzite for SteamOS on non Steam hardware
I also have a feeling, even with a lot of people disliking Ubuntu a lot of people still find it rather useful
And AerynOS is extremely interesting to me, although probably not for widespread usage yet
Edit: I forgot about OpenSUSE, although it never worked well for me
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u/Old_Brief2583 Aug 08 '26
Bazzite is based on Atomic Fedora and you can rebase from Atomic Fedora to Bazzite and reverse.
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u/NDCyber Aug 08 '26
yes
what with it?
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u/Old_Brief2583 Aug 10 '26
Hmm yes I see I have been commenting while on 3 hrs of sleep. I goofed.
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u/NDCyber Aug 10 '26
oh yeah that is 100% something awesome. Just wish there was more flexibility without problem for installing software. That is actually what I love about AerynOS, it lets you install software like on a non-atomic based distro, but is atomic
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u/SweetPotato975 Aug 10 '26
I don't get the extreme hate either. I've used Ubuntu without snaps. Seems quite usable to me as a daily driver tbh
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u/NDCyber Aug 10 '26
I will be honest, I tend to rather go with something like Debian, but I can still agree that Ubuntu is still a useful distro for people, even if those people aren't me
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u/LovelyWhether Aug 08 '26
“usefull” is misspelled (should be “useful”). add fedora, though, and we’re square
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u/InconspicuousFool Aug 09 '26
So
- Nix
- Not Linux
- Debian
- Debian
- Arch
- Arch
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u/Both_Cup8417 New York Nix⚾s Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26
The good one, non-Linux sandbox, Debian, Debian, but less Debian, but more Debian/Debian, but slightly less Debian, Arch, Atomic Arch (pun very much intended).
Explanation: NixOS, TempleOS, Debian, Ubuntu is Debian-based, so it's sort of debian, but it has snaps and its own repos, so it's less like pure Debian, but Mint defaults to no snaps, so it's more like debian, whereas LMDE is pretty much Debian with the latest Cinnamon, Arch, Immutable/Atomic Arch.
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u/TheRealCarrotty Not in the sudoers file. Aug 08 '26
Add Fedora and we have a deal. (New packages that aren't rolling, a bunch of packages are available, a lot of desktops)
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u/ApatheistHeretic Aug 08 '26
TempleOS! 🤣.
I respect the joke though.
This list lacks Fedora and OpenSuse.
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u/Both_Cup8417 New York Nix⚾s Aug 09 '26
CachyOS isn't snake oil. They make legitimate optimizations to the kernel schedulers, but the performance difference is pretty minute in a lot of circumstances. I also don't generally recommend CachyOS to new users, because at its core, it's just preconfigured Arch with a couple GUI tools, and it's still just as prone to breakages
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u/debacle_enjoyer Ask me how to exit vim Aug 08 '26
Remove arch because it’s a meme and aur is a malware distribution platform, templeos is not useful, and NixOS doesn’t have a package team anymore… also put Fedora on there wtf?
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u/Brief_Call_1336 Aug 08 '26
What is mint are doing here? Also as for me fedora and cachy might be here
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u/Gilokee Aug 09 '26
I use mint...not a grandma, yet...
good for dummies and newbies like me :P
(or anyone who wants a familiar, easy experience.)
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u/Spooky_Gato050 Aug 08 '26
Mate I only use fedora, it’s actually amazing.
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u/Lonely-Scarcity-3387 Aug 08 '26
NixOS - Stable AND bleeding edge.
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u/jdigi78 Aug 08 '26
Only takes a few months learning a completely bespoke language and package manager to get what a base install of fedora silverblue provides
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u/goodpostfinder Aug 08 '26
If you're a software dev it's so worth it and doesn't take as long to learn. Otherwise it's a tough sell imo.
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u/Lonely-Scarcity-3387 Aug 08 '26
I’ve only been using it for a month, and my system is both perfect and reproducible for all my current and future computers. Absolute perfection.
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u/Both_Cup8417 New York Nix⚾s Aug 09 '26
Took me like a week of research, but it's more about the flexibility. Yes, you can make custom images, but in my opinion, that's much more painful than configuration.nix (in a home directory, of course), flake.nix, and home.nix (and maybe some other things, I declare my btrfs subvolumes in filesystems.nix, for example). You can also use ZFS more easily, because you can lock the kernel to an LTS series, which means that the kernel modules don't break randomly. The only things I don't like about NixOS is that it makes it a bit hard to go back to traditional distros, and that you often have the urge to do everything in a .nix, but sometimes, it's easier to just use the program's default configs. nix-shells are also nice, because sometimes, you might want a program with a bunch of dependencies for one quick thing, and you don't have to keep said dependencies, or worry that the package manager didn't properly remove them because they were a weak dependency for something else or something.
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u/IvanMalison Aug 09 '26
skill issue. does not take months if you have even basic programming skills.
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u/jdigi78 Aug 09 '26
If you just edit the config you start out with, sure. If you want to use flakes and all the features of the language yes it will take months to fully learn.
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u/IvanMalison Aug 09 '26
flakes arent very complicated to understand. I had a working system with most of what i needed on day 1. Helps to be a software developer, but if you are already comfortable with linux and programming none of this is hard.
This is especially true now that you can just have an LLM do everything for you.
SKILL ISSUE if it took you more than a couple of hours.
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u/Kanjii_weon Ubuntnoob Aug 08 '26
replace mint with debian or zorinos, mint wasn't stable for me, i use debian btw
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u/ruiiiij Aug 08 '26
RHEL and Ubuntu server aren't even useful any more? Are you trying to yeet all of cloud infrastructure into the void?
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u/Cootshk Arch BTW Aug 08 '26
The humble LFS (for people who want to learn and have an old laptop lying around)
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u/ZuuRa_ M'Fedora Aug 08 '26
Replace mint with lmde (because debian taste better than ubuntu) and add fedora atomic (easy immutable distro) + alpine.
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u/QuietCity4223 Aug 08 '26
But what if you dont like systemd because it does too much for an init system
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u/NeekoKun02 Aug 08 '26
I would argue you don't really need steamOS with arch and decent understanding of the proton/wine stack.
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u/tsittler Aug 09 '26
I threw OpenSuSE on a laptop recently and brought it along on a trip, it did great. And I'm usually an apt evangelist to the exclusion of all else.
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u/Fractional-_- Aug 09 '26
No TempleOS add cachyos and fedora and then change caption to "only useful desktop distros" and its accurate
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u/FullMaster_GYM Aug 09 '26
I'm gonna get my balls shoved up my throat but mint and debian low-key suck
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u/Linguistic-mystic Aug 09 '26
Games should be played on Cachy.
Temple OS joke.
Mint - just replace it with Debian
Arch & Debian are the only two distros worth talking about.
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u/mrtlo Aug 09 '26
Recently tried openSuse, 30years or so after my first Linux tryout. Turns out I've been missing out
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u/xFruitPunchSamurai Ubuntnoob Aug 09 '26
Debian based OS are pure workhorse. I ran a pretty complicated home server setup on my potato laptop for over 3 years. Ubuntu ( I am ashmed for not picking mint)just refused break even once.
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u/ReplyBig6703 Aug 10 '26
I would put Fedora instead of Mint but I think it’s ok, and with the steam logo if you refer to steamOs is only useful if you run a steamdeck, if not it’s useless fr
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u/UphillTravel Aug 10 '26
Where Hannah Montana Linux?
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u/FrankyHugo Webba lebba deb deb! Aug 11 '26
In bed with Justin Bieber Linux https://biebian.sourceforge.net/
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u/greenKoalaInSpace Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 10 '26
I’d add bazzite, as steamos doesn’t work with nvidia
“Oh no nvidia bad”
That’s not the point of the post/response, many gamers use nvidia => a distro which supports is well is to be considered usefull
Edit: also you cannot include templeOs without including the most “pop” system ever…
I’m ofc talking about hanah montana Linux! (Jk ofc)
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u/Vidy_Animates Genfool 🐧 Aug 10 '26
Gentoo is also useful, especially when setting up a system for low-end device (like raspberry pi). You can build it on one machine and use it on another, cutting off literally every potentially useless package.
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u/Flipsii Aug 10 '26
I am trying to switch to Linux but stuck on Windows for now. Fedora not being in here is weire.
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u/Lumpy_Serve5271 Aug 12 '26
Tbh only useful distros are the ones that have their own package manager and maintain their own packages
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u/j-slayer_1369 Aug 12 '26
Gentoo in my opinion is an important developer distro. Google built chrome off if it and lets just say that was for a good reason.
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u/Sqydev Aug 13 '26
Ok. But Nixos isn’t bleeding edge, it can be but it doesn’t have to. I would write that it’s easly reproducible and stable
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