- Ascend to BSD-land. Start with FreeBSD.
- Once that becomes mainstream, go to OpenBSD, then NetBSD, then the very-rarely-used DragonflyBSD.
- Once that becomes mainstream (probably never, but still possible theoretically) switch to OpenIndiana, the FOSS version of Solaris.
- Then you can go to something even weirder, like the obsolete IRIX, the mysterious Plan 9/9front/Inferno, or the Rusty alpha-stage Redox OS.
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If it was so good then where is plan10 though
Because it's so good there is no need for plan10
holy ORZ
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This is the actual only correct answer. Plan9 is unix but better and with an animal pet like Linux.
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NixOS is the new Arch. I'm surprised nobody here has said they use it yet.
Ive noticed this, arch almost just works but my nixOS friends are always complaining about something
Yessss...
Come to Gentooooo.
Come.
Muahahahhahaha. *Lightning & Thunder!*
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NixOS user here; please do not recommend NixOS.
I don't use NixOS btw.
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Write your own OS running on RISC-V.
Haiku.
https://www.haiku-os.org/ is the most fun Iβve had with an OS in along time.
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If you're not on TempleOS, you were never really serious about feeling superior
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GNU Guix with the GNU Hurd kernel? A full GNU/GNU system, or GNU + GNU.
Plan9, then you can smugly say Unix systems are sooo legacy.
Run exclusively self made programs
Need a calculator? Program one and compile it
Well, within reason
As it turns out programming a calculator can be quite complex: https://chadnauseam.com/coding/random/calculator-app
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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.
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Haiku. It's a reimplementation of BeOS.
Alternatively, you could use ReactOS and make it look as windows-like as possible, and then go and post on Windows support forums with solutions to problems that work for ReactOS but not for actual Windows, and then play dumb while calling them dumb when it doesn't work for them.
I use arch btw.
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Obviously, you need to get BSD on a computer without any proprietary firmware.
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You get an ARM or RISCV machine to run Linux on obviously. Then you shit on the plebs with their legacy systems.
You also need PostmarketOS on your phone of course.
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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.
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Make your own, coward. No distro so niche as one that has half a user because it's hardly usable.
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