I'll add more distro from the suggestion in the comments.
If you want to do it yourself here the clean map.
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LAND of SLOPDOR
Add YellowDog and Clear Linux to the valley of the lost
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Why are Ubuntu and Kubuntu so far away?
I'd swap Arch and Gentoo - I think Gentoo should be on the precarious peak and Arch at a more accessible altitude.
Add Nixos. Also put Slackware to Valley of the lost
slackware smirks in the way that only the subgenius can.
praise bob.
Slackware teaches more then debian or arch (trumped only by LFS or old school gentoo). But sure, not many use it.
Not really Linux, but TempleOS should be in the fog somewhere. Maybe technically off the archipelago, but close enough to be related to it in some way.
TempleOS actually enspirits a true hacker/unix philosophy, as bizarre as it is.Β
The Island of TempleOS is in the middle of the Holy Sea.
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Gamers Bay of course with Steam and Bazzite. If there's a spot for mobile, Mobian & Postmarket are both top tier
Steam OS feels more like a ship anchored in the archipelago. Bazzite is Indeed on land.
Why? SteamOS is based on Arch, it belongs here. I think a ship should probably be something like Android.
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Where's the GNU fortress, with trisquel, parabola and others?
Now let's make an rpg in that map, or maybe a new quest for supertuxkart
Over the years in search of a daily driver, Iβve done Ubuntu > Pop > Kubuntu > Mint > more distro hopping > Mint.
Itβs nice living on the beach. π
somehow needs this meme in it:
And underneath the whole archipelago,
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Took me a minute to find openSUSE. It appears, the chameleon did its job
Who is Terminal George
The result of Curious George after his "Let's compile a Kernel!" hijinks!
I love this! Super fun!
I so want to see how you depict Yggdrassyl, though, the very first and only distro released by Linus himself
Grabbing my machete and wading into the jungles of Fedora.
Gentoo belongs over on the Highs of Knowledge
LAND of SLOPDOR
you forgot to put OSX on there.
At this point I'm just glad Slackware is even on the map.
Slackware in the Valley of the Lost.
"I'm not dead."
"Yes you are."
"I want to go for a walk!"
I feel like NixOS should be down a mineshaft underneath the Highs of Knowledge
And Guix somewhere below that
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This reminds me of my "Linux island" city in Cities Skylines! I can get screenshots later, but basically there's the main island of the Linux distros/districts, where the outer parts are more noob friendly and the inner parts are more "advanced", with the nearby, considerably more crowded and poorer Android island consisting of various Android ROMs.
Gentoo and LFS to the Highs of Knowledge
If unraid is there I want openzfs to be there π
this is adorable
Where would Free BSD live?
And can Thx be some sort of sea monster/leviathan.
Awsome work.
Instead of a circus, Ubuntu should be a bunch of people who live in a cave and see the world through shadows on the wall.Β
I'd love to see alpine on there
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