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Where to go now since Linux is mainstream
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TempelOS?
Upgrade to CathedralOS time
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This is the only correct answer.
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plan9
If it was so good then where is plan10 though
Because it's so good there is no need for plan10
holy ORZ
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This is the actual only correct answer. Plan9 is unix but better and with an animal pet like Linux.
And it’s from outer space!
no it's from bell labs
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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
Yessss...
Come to Gentooooo.
Come.
Muahahahhahaha. *Lightning & Thunder!*
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NixOS user here; please do not recommend NixOS.
I don't use NixOS btw.
i use nixos, i dont recomend nixos.
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Write your own OS running on RISC-V.
Im forking RISC-V to the GPL and writing a new OS ontop of it
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Haiku.
https://www.haiku-os.org/ is the most fun I‘ve had with an OS in along time.
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If you're not on TempleOS, you were never really serious about feeling superior
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GNU Guix with the GNU Hurd kernel? A full GNU/GNU system, or GNU + GNU.
well GNU/GNU is just GNU :o
I like GNU^2
Technically
GNU/GNU = 1
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There's always LFS.
But if you really wanna bail on tux, Haiku, Plan 9, or ReactOs
Abandon technology and become a farmer.
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Run exclusively self made programs
Need a calculator? Program one and compile it
Well, within reason
As it turns out programming a calculator can be quite complex: https://chadnauseam.com/coding/random/calculator-app
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Plan9, then you can smugly say Unix systems are sooo legacy.
Haiku OS
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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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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Back to LFS.
im building my own linux, with hookers and no C code
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I did that once. It instantly made my beard double the length.
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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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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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Obviously, you need to get BSD on a computer without any proprietary firmware.
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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.
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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None, go outside and absorb sunlight
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Make your own, coward. No distro so niche as one that has half a user because it's hardly usable.
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Just a pure Rust computer. No operating system, just Rust.
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GNU Hurd?
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There is two other paths:
- Gnu herd
- Plan9
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Now you have to move on to obscure open source hardware. Linux phone and/or a RISC-V computer
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