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Linux traffic has grown 22.4% in PH this year (infosec.pub)
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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 56 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Now that Linux is mainstream where do we move to feel elitist? DragonFly BSD? Redox OS?

[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 5 days ago (3 children)

SerenityOS is "a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core".
It's good enough to be proud of, while alienating normal people, not incidentally, like linux used to, but on purpose, like this sentence does, making it a great for elitists.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 9 points 5 days ago

Perfect. Installing now.

Next year will be SerenityOS desktop year!

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 3 days ago

One could alternatively run GNU hurd, then you also get Debian but also cachè

[–] Aetherion@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Hmm I cannot find some community discussions about this on distrowatch but this looks surely awesome! I always wanted to go back to my childhoods computing interface -- oh god I need that

But what type of kernel is this the new talk about "custom unix-like core"? So this is not linux, it is also not unix? Seems like it would bring me back the same fun of exploring some unknown os, like when I was 7 years old.

[–] TroublesomeTalker@feddit.uk 5 points 5 days ago

I preordered a Jolla. Chasing that "0.6 % Other" high.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 4 points 5 days ago

HaikuOS

[–] Nikelui@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

We just start the distro wars.

[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

The Distro Wars have already been raging for decades now.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm on Debian. Is that niche enough?

[–] Nikelui@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Nope too mainstream. Try Kali Linux at least.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Did they not rebrand to ParrotOS or smth?

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 points 4 days ago

Kali and Parrot were two separate distros last time I used Parrot.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago

Create ExLisperOS and you're good to go.