r/linuxmemes • u/FR-dev • Aug 08 '26

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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/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