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Your car is here.
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TempleOS.
Drive -fwd
Sudo drive -fwd
Drive -left
Drive -stop
Drive -brake
Sudp drive -brake
Udo drive -brake
Sudo dribe -brake
F U C K
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Damn Small Linux:
Those 60s classic cars, though iconic, relied on a very different planned lifespan compared to modern cars. It was much shorter than the cars of today.
A better analogy for Debian would probably be an older Honda Civic model. It’s older and lacks many flashy or hyper-modern features, but it’s reliable, maintainable, and actively supported.
Interestingly, mint is what I daily drive as my distro and the car for it is what I prefer in terms of driving daily (I love me a hatchback).
However, Debian is a distro I would drive more often if it were more practical, and that car is my favorite ever that I wish I could have on a practical level
openSUSE
Tiny Core Linux(/Alpine/Void/etc)
OpenWrt
NixOS:
Who wouldn't want to have their car assembled automatically ~~beton scratch~~ from scratch each time they need it ?
I'm unsure if this is satire, but you don't rebuild a NixOS system every time you boot or SSH into it or something. It's sort of like the Arch "assemble your own vehicle how you want" image except it allows you to do so on new hardware declaratively. Like having dotfiles for the entire operating system configuration that are processed by the OS itself. Also really nice for unattended remote installation with https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-anywhere
Then this is Windows ~~10/11~~:
Btw, it got stuck in Antarctica.
Windows:
I'd also accept that car Homer designed. Or a cyber truck.
Alpine
Slackware:
Debian must be the 1999 Toyota Corolla
Debian is also one of the most secure distributions in terms of user control and security against vulnerabilities, since it is the same OS that runs most of the servers in the world - and therefore gets very quick and reliable security updates.
Mint looks about right, I rented a car much like that one and explored Greece from the south all the way to the northern mountains and loved every minute of it. Just like my last six or seven years of exclusive Linux use.
Use what makes you happy people, it's not a persona.
no way a 50s chevy is debian.
debian would actually be a boring but super practical camry or something.
Debian should be a small truck (i.e. one that's actually used for cargo, not as a penis prosthetic), and the bottom right is clearly Gentoo!
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Mint should be a Mitsubishi Mirage. People make fun of it, sure, but it keeps working anyway.
Mint is best for my purposes. Making fun from it is silly
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