A really neat graphic I randomly stumbled across on Wikipedia.

No idea if this is accurate but it’s fascinating to see all these distros laid out this way.

Seems to live here now: https://github.com/FabioLolix/LinuxTimeline/tree/main

Where do you live in this family tree?

  • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
    19·
    1 year ago

    I use this chart when teaching Linux. I think it does a great job of showing Linux’s “bazaar” vs. Windows’ “cathedral”.

    • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Mandrake was pretty cool. The original user-friendly distro. I’ve never used it (was too deep down the rabbit hole running Red Hat to try something “friendly”) but I remember there was a bit of hype going back in the day about it.

  • xantoxis@lemmy.world
    10·
    1 year ago

    I installed Slackware in 1994 or so. Floppy. Disks.

    Fast forward almost 30 years and I’m still trying new (to me) distros. Proxmox VE this time.

    • cybersandwich@lemmy.world
      22·
      1 year ago

      Proxmox isn’t a “distro” as most would colloquially think of one. It’s a hypervisor.

      Am I taking crazy pills?

      Do you mean you are using it to use your setup in a VM or container?

      • xantoxis@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 year ago

        Proxmox VE is a packaging of Linux as an operating system. It is a distribution. Straight from the wikipedia page:

        It is a Debian-based Linux distribution with a modified Ubuntu LTS kernel[7] and allows deployment and management of virtual machines and containers.[8][9]

        Cool way to respond to a comment btw:

        Am I taking crazy pills?

        The VMs I’m running in Proxmox are also Linux, but that’s less interesting to me.

        • cybersandwich@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          I gotcha. I meant no offense. I was halfway hoping you’d tell me there was a spin of proxmox that was meant for desktop use that containerized everything or something.

          • TechAdmin@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            It’s Debian-based so can install all the same desktop and window environments available there.

  • cerement@slrpnk.net
    7·
    1 year ago

    failed to install Debian Woody and SUSE in early naughts – finally succeeded with a Stage 1 Gentoo install (yay for me?) – a long sabbatical from Linux, back into the groove with Pop!_OS for a while, and recently replaced with Debian stable (successfully this time ;p ) – getting old enough that “bleeding edge” doesn’t hold any appeal any more, “boring” is far more interesting

    • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Debian stable with some stuff installed in containers and some as flatpak is a sleeper. It may just be the best most Rick solid combination out there.

    • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I mean, at this point it’s probably got a much Gentoo left in it as Steam OS has Arch.

  • BlueÆther@no.lastname.nz
    5·
    1 year ago

    I cut my teeth on Mandrake 7.0.

    There are many names on that list that I have tried over the years, but use Debian and openSUSE normally

  • 7u5k3n@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    Started on Ubuntu in 09. - got the CD in the mail On kubuntu now

    Ive bounced around all over arch, Manjaro, fedora, pop_os, mint but I always come back to kubuntu.

    It just works for me.

  • Thorned_Rose@kbin.social
    4·
    1 year ago

    My first flavour was Red Hat back in the late 90s. It’s a shame I didn’t give it more of a go back then. Then Mint for a couple of years in the earlyish 2010s before finally settling on Arch where I’ve been for almost a decade now.

  • TechAdmin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I started with Slackware around 1997 because I needed a free C compiler plus all I had were junk, hand-me-down computers. Stopped programming & using linux around 2000 and had switched back to Windows on a newly built, decent computer. From about 2000 until about 2016 I rarely used linux besides a couple routers. Raspberry pi 3 came out with built-in wifi & my dislike of Windows 10 got me back into linux for more use cases. Valve’s work on proton finally made it so I could switch to linux for most gaming & my Windows usage dropped to almost nothing. Currently using Manjaro on primary desktop and Fedora 38 on tablet with mix of distros in LXC & VMs on mini-PC w/ Proxmox VE & Synology NAS. SteamVR on linux been getting decent amount of work on it lately so once it gets stable I’ll have one less reason to need Windows.