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    I can't even feel superior to everyone when theirs so many arch installers!! I use real arch btw. I thought "I guess I should go to Gentoo" but then wait, CHROMEOS IS A GENTOO INSTALLER!

    I feel like we only have two options now

    1. Ascend to BSD-land
    2. Ironically supporting Windows Unironically

    edit: I have decided to replace my debian laptop with BSD

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    [–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 193 points 2 months ago (5 children)
    [–] evol@lemmy.today 45 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Upgrade to CathedralOS time

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    [–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 months ago

    This is the only correct answer.

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    [–] winety@lemmy.zip 105 points 2 months ago (6 children)
    [–] evol@lemmy.today 56 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    If it was so good then where is plan10 though

    [–] Shipgirlboy@sh.itjust.works 46 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

    Because it's so good there is no need for plan10

    [–] evol@lemmy.today 15 points 2 months ago
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    [–] mmmm@sopuli.xyz 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    This is the actual only correct answer. Plan9 is unix but better and with an animal pet like Linux.

    [–] thenextguy@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    And it’s from outer space!

    [–] lime@feddit.nu 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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    [–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 100 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    NixOS is the new Arch. I'm surprised nobody here has said they use it yet.

    [–] evol@lemmy.today 54 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Ive noticed this, arch almost just works but my nixOS friends are always complaining about something

    [–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 20 points 2 months ago (11 children)

    Yessss...

    Come to Gentooooo.

    Come.

    Muahahahhahaha. *Lightning & Thunder!*

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    [–] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 38 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    NixOS user here; please do not recommend NixOS.

    [–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 20 points 2 months ago

    I don't use NixOS btw.

    [–] dadarobot@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    i use nixos, i dont recomend nixos.

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    [–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 61 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Write your own OS running on RISC-V.

    [–] evol@lemmy.today 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Im forking RISC-V to the GPL and writing a new OS ontop of it

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    [–] Runecrush376@lemmy.world 49 points 2 months ago (1 children)
    [–] Limerance@piefed.social 26 points 2 months ago (16 children)

    https://www.haiku-os.org/ is the most fun Iβ€˜ve had with an OS in along time.

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    [–] davetortoise@reddthat.com 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    If you're not on TempleOS, you were never really serious about feeling superior

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    [–] potatoguy@lemmy.eco.br 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    GNU Guix with the GNU Hurd kernel? A full GNU/GNU system, or GNU + GNU.

    [–] evol@lemmy.today 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    well GNU/GNU is just GNU :o

    I like GNU^2

    [–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (4 children)
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    [–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 months ago

    There's always LFS.

    But if you really wanna bail on tux, Haiku, Plan 9, or ReactOs

    [–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 31 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Abandon technology and become a farmer.

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    [–] paequ2@lemmy.today 30 points 2 months ago

    Plan9, then you can smugly say Unix systems are sooo legacy.

    [–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Run exclusively self made programs

    Need a calculator? Program one and compile it

    Well, within reason

    [–] waldfee@feddit.org 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    As it turns out programming a calculator can be quite complex: https://chadnauseam.com/coding/random/calculator-app

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    [–] rustinmyeye@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)
    [–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    I remember the BeOS guys doing a demo at my LUG before they release the BeBox (or whatever their computer was called). That OS was so ahead of it's time. There were about 200 of us just gasping at how good it was and what it could do. Actually using BeOS on a PowerPC ended up being an on ramp for me to Linux. By the time Haiku came out, life was too busy and I was too entrenched in Linux. Maybe now that I'm retired I'll take a look at it.

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    [–] highball@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Open source Windows obviously. https://reactos.org/

    All these recent Windows to Linux converts, whining about how Linux should be more like Windows, should be going to ReactOS. They want open source Windows, not open source Unix.

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    [–] utopiah@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)
    [–] evol@lemmy.today 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    im building my own linux, with hookers and no C code

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    [–] daanvd@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

    I did that once. It instantly made my beard double the length.

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    [–] Hazor@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

    Haiku. It's a reimplementation of BeOS.

    Alternatively, you could use ReactOS and make it look as windows-like as possible, and then go and post on Windows support forums with solutions to problems that work for ReactOS but not for actual Windows, and then play dumb while calling them dumb when it doesn't work for them.

    I use arch btw.

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    [–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

    You get an ARM or RISCV machine to run Linux on obviously. Then you shit on the plebs with their legacy systems.
    You also need PostmarketOS on your phone of course.

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    [–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Obviously, you need to get BSD on a computer without any proprietary firmware.

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    [–] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 months ago (4 children)
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    [–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    None, go outside and absorb sunlight

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    [–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 months ago (11 children)

    Everyone saying nixos the next arch but we are all traumatized so we dont even recommend it /hj. But actually dont use it, youre gonna give up or spend hundreds of hours crafting the perfect deployable system which youre never gonna deploy on anything other than your single laptop that has nixos.

    [–] NannerBanner@literature.cafe 16 points 2 months ago

    The first person in real life that I met who used nixos was so proud to show off his configs. I let him, and was suitably impressed. I then returned home and decided to play dark souls 2 on my lovely little manjaro.

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    [–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Make your own, coward. No distro so niche as one that has half a user because it's hardly usable.

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    [–] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Now you have to move on to obscure open source hardware. Linux phone and/or a RISC-V computer

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    [–] irelephant@anarchist.nexus 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    There is two other paths:Β 

    • Gnu herd
    • Plan9
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    [–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Just a pure Rust computer. No operating system, just Rust.

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    [–] negativenull@piefed.world 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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