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    [–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Yeah I mean it's just a themed Kubuntu, right?

    • Ubuntu is pretty stable, but the latest is pretty up-to-date atm. It's also well supported and well understood by the wider linux community
    • KDE is a solid choice as it will be familiar to Windows users (afterall, Windows 11's GUI was based on Plasma)
    • The novelty of using a Hannah Montana themed linux distro is fun

    It's a fine beginner distro

    KDE is a solid choice as it will be familiar to Windows users (afterall, Windows 11's GUI was based on Plasma)

    Would you say it's the best of both worlds?

    [–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

    It's KDE 4.2 though.

    [–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 106 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

    Someone tried it this year: https://www.xda-developers.com/i-tried-hannah-montana-linux-in-2025/

    TL;DR complete failure. It hasn't been updated in 10 years.

    [–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 60 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Like a lot of Linux distros, this should have just been a window manager theme and maybe a helper app

    Absolutely no sense bringing in stuff like init system and depmod and C compiler version when what you care about is UI theming

    [–] ikidd@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Sometimes, just maybe, people do things to see if they can.

    [–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    oh and props for that... for doing and making new things in general

    Just that distro-where-a-theme-would-do is something I see a lot of and people might wind up tackling a larger harder problem than they need to and not spending as much time & effort on the stuff they intended to.

    And, a lot lot lot more people can easily download & appreciate a theme than move distros (though some perverse individuals make a habit of the latter)

    [–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

    Damn, Someone should really revive that it's iconic at this point.

    [–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 2 days ago

    One could have guessed from the image in the OP. KDE 4.2 is not exactly a recent piece of software anymore.

    [–] Peffse@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

    If using era-appropriate hardware, I wonder if you could use archived Kubuntu repos to upgrade one at a time until it's a modern Linux kernel.

    [–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 6 points 2 days ago

    People should consider Justin Bieber Linux, at least it isn't that outdated.

    [–] Boxwine@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

    Thanks for the link, I was gonna try it lol

    [–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

    It hasn't been updated in years.

    [–] bort@sopuli.xyz 40 points 1 day ago (3 children)
    [–] sunoc@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

    Came here to say that. If you actually plan to daily a meme distro Nyarch is probably your best bet imo!

    [–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
    [–] StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

    Lol never seen this before.

    Yes but you have to play the theme song while installing.

    [–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 28 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    No. Let me know if there's anything else.

    [–] comador@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    How about Crunchbang or Linspire?

    [–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    crunchbangplusplus and bunsenlabs exist as successors-in-spirit to crunchbang!

    [–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    Very infrequently and no, respectively.

    i'm giving mint a try any day now

    [–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    It's canonical (to me alone) that the HML is the basis for LCARS in the Star Trek universe.

    [–] 4grams@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

    It is now for me too :).

    [–] Luci@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    Yes, it’s the best right next to PuppyLinux and LinuxFromScratch

    [–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    What's wrong with Puppy Linux?

    [–] Luci@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

    Nothing! Great for live media and daily running. Recommend.

    [–] somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    People doing LFS have ascended

    [–] swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I did it once. Never again.

    [–] bizzle@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

    It's probably pretty out of date maybe you should pick something better maintained as a beginner like LFS

    [–] krunklom@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    If you're not using HML you don't even deserve to breathe.

    [–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Nah. JBL is where it’s at

    [–] hanke@feddit.nu 2 points 1 day ago

    You mean Beabian?

    [–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    I always wanted to know if Miley ever used this.

    The only footage of Miley checking if anyone talk about Hannah Montana Linux /j

    [–] Boxwine@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    I think Hannah used it, but I don't know if Miley did

    [–] klu9@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

    At least, never at the same time.

    [–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

    If you try and log in with the user name "Miley" it should give you secret root access.

    [–] sheepishly@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
    [–] Boxwine@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

    The ball and pinball decided it, HML is for me

    [–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

    I prefer MCL

    [–] sepi@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

    Low key this might be one of the more serious distros. Mad respect from a long beard.