I can’t even feel superior to everyone when theirs so many arch installers!! I use real arch btw. I thought “I guess I should go to Gentoo” but then wait, CHROMEOS IS A GENTOO INSTALLER!
I feel like we only have two options now
- Ascend to BSD-land
- Ironically supporting Windows Unironically
edit: I have decided to replace my debian laptop with BSD
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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.
Obvious answer is something like switching to something like BSD, but the less obvious answer is to look into switching to AROS ( AROS Research Operating System, formerly Amiga Research Operating System ).
BSD definitely is a lot more complete compared to AROS, so using AROS will make you superior if you can find a way to keep your workflow as much as possible while making it your daily driver.
Warning: AROS is, as far as I know, not fully open source, but that can be fixed with some reverse engineering that’s well above my pay grade.
Not an Amiga person, but…
goes to investigate if Eric Schwarz — the Amiga, Sabrina Online guy — has done AROS art
Aaannnddd…sure enough, yes.
Did you know that Eric Williams Schwartz made a mascot for AROS (Amiga Research Operating system) named “kitty”?
Lisp machine
BSD.
Now you have to move on to obscure open source hardware. Linux phone and/or a RISC-V computer
i wish, you wish; it hasnt happened yet---- WE MUST CORRUPT WINDOWS USERS; SPREAD THE DAMN GOSPEL
edit: I have decided to replace my debian laptop with BSD
Be sure to tell the FreeBSD guys that you use NetBSD, the only real BSD.
Linux forks.
Elks linux for starters.
None, go outside and absorb sunlight
Haiku OS
VibeOS 😎
/j
New templeOS just dropped
Bout to do a complete 360 on the GPL
GNU Hurd?
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Hurd-In-2026
GNU Hurd Is “Almost There” With x86_64, SMP & ~75% Of Debian Packages Building
Written by Michael Larabel in GNU on 1 February 2026
Wow! That’s way closer than I realized!
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.
Imma be honest I never understood NixOS for laptop/workstations, these systems are highly volatile so setting up deployable builds sounds lke a nightmare. For Servers/Deployments it makes bunch more sense.
Been using on my laptop/workstation for years now. Works great. Wanna see my configs?
yeah sure, I think like its not worth the hassle in that case. It’s probs still fun to work on lol
TempelOS?
Upgrade to CathedralOS time
This is the only correct answer.
