- Ascend to BSD-land. Start with FreeBSD.
- Once that becomes mainstream, go to OpenBSD, then NetBSD, then the very-rarely-used DragonflyBSD.
- Once that becomes mainstream (probably never, but still possible theoretically) switch to OpenIndiana, the FOSS version of Solaris.
- Then you can go to something even weirder, like the obsolete IRIX, the mysterious Plan 9/9front/Inferno, or the Rusty alpha-stage Redox OS.
Haiku
Nixos. Definitely more complicated, but better, and superior ๐
TempelOS?
Upgrade to CathedralOS time
This is the only correct answer.
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.
TempleOS or make your own
Abandon technology and become a farmer.
If you're not on TempleOS, you were never really serious about feeling superior
My PC is an electro mechanical pinball table from 1971 (Williams Klondike, btw) running Puppy Linux.
My PC is an electro mechanical pinball table from 1971 (Williams Klondike, btw) running Puppy Linux.
You guys are snobs. No, seriously, youre totally elitist. You feel like the unappreciated scholars, so you shit on the people who know less than you.

Bout to do a complete 360 on the GPL
plan9
If it was so good then where is plan10 though
Because it's so good there is no need for plan10
This is the actual only correct answer. Plan9 is unix but better and with an animal pet like Linux.
NixOS is the new Arch. I'm surprised nobody here has said they use it yet.
Ive noticed this, arch almost just works but my nixOS friends are always complaining about something
NixOS user here; please do not recommend NixOS.
Make your own, coward. No distro so niche as one that has half a user because it's hardly usable.
NixOS. And be really annoying about declarative software environments
Arch? So weak. I do everything only using the bios.
Write your own OS running on RISC-V.
Haiku or some port of AmigaOS, sadly forgot its name and Iโm too lazy to Qwant it.
AROS (Amiga Research OS) or MorphOS?
There is two other paths:ย
- Gnu herd
- Plan9
Plan9, then you can smugly say Unix systems are sooo legacy.
Back to LFS.
im building my own linux, with hookers and no C code
I did that once. It instantly made my beard double the length.
You could always switch to Slackware and be insufferable about it.
Haiku.
https://www.haiku-os.org/ is the most fun Iโve had with an OS in along time.
Never go full BSD!
GNU Guix with the GNU Hurd kernel? A full GNU/GNU system, or GNU + GNU.
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.
Haiku OS
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.
There's always LFS.
But if you really wanna bail on tux, Haiku, Plan 9, or ReactOs
Haiku OS! Backwards compatible with an OS that was abandoned in the early 2000s and was never popular in the first place! Zero ports! Use it for web browsing or something idduno!
How is no-one here saying QubesOS???
Run exclusively self made programs
Need a calculator? Program one and compile it
Well, within reason
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