This is really great. I agree with pretty much everything on there and I figured I might want to try a artist distro at some point.

I think your legend is supposed to say "with immutability"

On a more philosophical level... This is great for a certain type of person but I worry about it also being scary for a Linux noob. I know out of my friend group, maybe 25% would appreciate seeing things in this format and thats because those are the engineers in the group.

Joke’s on you, I have a Surface! Is it a laptop? Is it a tablet? It’s the Dr. Pepper of computing devices!

But seriously, is there a small bit that can be made for tablets and those slightly-more-than-a-tablets?

Nice chart.

I'm new to Linux (April or May of this year) and most of my experience is Android. I picked Fedora Workstation because of Privacy Guides recommending it for noobs. Using a T470s ThinkPad.

Nice chart!

If I could offer an addendum, CachyOS and PikaOS should be included in the gaming distros for non-new users. I love Bazzite, but CachyOS gives people a very good Arch option, and PikaOS gives people a nice Debian (not Ubuntu) option that's about up to feature parity with CachyOS.

Excellent work.

I had already had an idea of what distro I will be shifting to but this reenforced that choice. A good sanity check.

Godsend, swapping my main laptop now.

Things I do want to point out if you intend to make this as new user friendly as possible:

1. The bottom section doesn't quite makes sense to include as it contradicts the purpose of this diagram. Similar reasoning for color coding and immutability tag; it makes sense to the experienced Linux users, not much for others.
2. I can understand that the diamonds connected with a simple line are of equal standing, but it looks like steps. Users would also question which they should choose amongst them (or question why they exist if they seemingly serve the same purpose).

Question: If I say, go with PopOS, does this mean it isn't optimal for development? Or can you get pretty much get anything to work provided there's kernel support, this chart is just a matter of working out of the box?

Lemmy is climbing the ranks! I'm a regular lemmy user and I just found this post through my search engine! It was the second result in duckduckgo when I searched up (chosing a linux distro flow chart) I will admit a very specific search but still pretty cool to find lemmy randomly. Cool flowchart btw!

Desktop Linux

Is there one for laptop Linux?

macOS

What about mac hardware?

I use CachyOS myself, and I'm a gamer who doesn't even do development, though I do music production, and do pretty well there. However, I see a lot of Wayland-default distros, which tells me it's a Wayland bias. Mint is an exception, since Cinnamon is working on Wayland support, and it was X11 the entire time, though Cinnamon and i3 (my window manager of choice) works on XLibre.

Edit: After reading the chart, it actually works extremely well, despite me using Linux for about a 4 years (between myself and my producer, Neigsendoig, about 9 years combined experience).