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This is really great. I agree with pretty much everything on there and I figured I might want to try a artist distro at some point.
I think your legend is supposed to say "with immutability"
On a more philosophical level... This is great for a certain type of person but I worry about it also being scary for a Linux noob. I know out of my friend group, maybe 25% would appreciate seeing things in this format and thats because those are the engineers in the group.
Joke’s on you, I have a Surface! Is it a laptop? Is it a tablet? It’s the Dr. Pepper of computing devices!
But seriously, is there a small bit that can be made for tablets and those slightly-more-than-a-tablets?
Good idea. Unfortunately, I don't have any experience with touch screen devices on Linux. I should do research into it, as it would be a nice addition.
I heard somewhere that Fedora Workstation includes the Surface kernel-module needed for Surface devices, though I'm not sure.
Nice chart.
I'm new to Linux (April or May of this year) and most of my experience is Android. I picked Fedora Workstation because of Privacy Guides recommending it for noobs. Using a T470s ThinkPad.
Fedora is a very nice OS. Nothing wrong with that
I'm very happy with it.
Things I do want to point out if you intend to make this as new user friendly as possible:
Godsend, swapping my main laptop now.
Nice chart!
If I could offer an addendum, CachyOS and PikaOS should be included in the gaming distros for non-new users. I love Bazzite, but CachyOS gives people a very good Arch option, and PikaOS gives people a nice Debian (not Ubuntu) option that's about up to feature parity with CachyOS.
Desktop Linux
Is there one for laptop Linux?
macOS
What about mac hardware?
Minimalist NixOS
That is NOT a reason to pick NixOS. You pick NixOS when you want to configure your entire OS via a configuration that you've saved in one or more files, potentially in a git repo. No more manual scripting that'll break a major version down the line.
Copy the repo to another (or new) machine, let the OS setup your configuration and you're done. You're back to where you were.
Now, not everything is tracked in that repo, like a stateful browser containing your browser history, etc, but if you can get back 90% to where you were in a single installation - that's a massive time-saver :D
