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Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Studio, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Mythbuntu.
- Forgot gnubuntu
  
  And the best of all... Uwuntu
  
  I tried to search about it but the ubuntu wiki directs me to ubuntu-libre, and there directs me to gobuntu, and then it says gobuntu has been merged back to ubuntu?
  
  Did I misinterpret something or is it what it seems?
- Ubuntu unity
- What's Ubuntu duntu u?
- This is the correct comment.
Linux users really are like vegetarians/vegans - they want you to join them and when you do, then they judge you for not being vegetarian/vegan enough
- Do you have a minute to talk about our lord and savior, CrossFit?
  
  But had you tried keto?
- A vegan, a Linux user, and a 'pol sci major' walk into a bar. They are the same person. Oh dear, they won't shut up. There is no god here now. I think my ears have started to bleed. Run...
- I wish to believe it's just the loud 1% with both.
  
  A friend of mine was an arch user and was constantly throwing shit at me for using zorin os, but at the same time was always complaining about something not working like he wants it to and spending too much time tinkering. He recently switched to Fedora.
  
  Who's laughing now Tom
  
  I've been a tech for 25 years, a steeped nerd even longer. I've met many many linux users. Three of them weren't obnoxious distro adherents. (Four if you count myself)
  
  Experience tells me otherwise, but given that the people I've met that use linux distros is nowhere near enough of a good sample size, I hope I'm wrong.
- I'll have you know my friend has a pal who uses arch
  
  by the way
- LOL Nicely done
Tbh, I don't really get the hate that Ubuntu gets.

I mean, I do understand that people don't like some of the decisions made with Ubuntu (e.g. snap), but especially for people who don't use an OS for the sake of using that OS and just want to use their PC to get stuff done, Ubuntu/Kubuntu are quite good.

You have a mostly consistent UI that can do most important configs without touching CLI. Manuals and simple guides are easy to find, even in other languages than English (which is important for quite a big number of people outside the US).

And contrary to some other, smaller distros, Ubuntu isn't run by just 1-2 people and you can trust in it still existing in 10 years. (Obviously, this is true for many other distros, but some quite widly used distros are run just by a tiny team of hobbyists)

I mean, I'd get the reaction if someone claimed they are Linux users because they use Android (though with enough knowledge you can also get a full Linux distro running on Android in chroot).
- "Use Snaps"
  "No" (installs .deb)
  "Fuck you, use Snaps"
  (The Snap Store is a proprietary closed-source black-box that updates your snaps without asking and every part of this statement was a deliberate planned feature by Canonical)
  
  I mentioned this in the comment you answered to. But as I said, this might be an issue for people that use Linux because they really hate anything that isn't GPL, but 97% of the people on this planet care more about whether something is simple to use than what license it uses, as evidenced by the market share of Windows, Android, Chromebooks and Apple products.
  
  Wouldn't it be better to get some of them to use Ubuntu with snaps than to stay on their proprietary platforms, because packet management sucks and conflicts are basically impossible to solve for someone who's not a software developer?
  
  The Snap Store is a proprietary closed-source black-box
  
  Every part of the snap store running on your computer is open source.
  
  that updates your snaps without asking
  
  If you don't want your snaps auto-updating, turn auto updates off. snap --help
  
  I'll just use apt to bypass the snaps...
  
  $ sudo apt install xyz Installing snap for xyz...
  
  Okay what the fuck
  
  Too much of the Linux community makes licencing a dumb hill to die. There is very much a happy medium.
- I think they get hate because Canonical is a commercial entity.
  
  I really don't like that sentiment though. Software development isn't for free just because you slap GPL on it. These devs need to be paid somehow if they are supposed to do more than 3h/week.
  
  You can also see the same thing in the Linux kernel. Many Kernel devs are employed by Microsoft, Google, the NSA and many other commercial entities.
- Yeah I quit Ubuntu after 12 years but I still recommend it for people trying to change OS ..it's great OS
- I have used Kubuntu since 12.04 and had few issues. I get everyone has favorites, but don't understand the visceral tribalism present. Maybe I'll hate Kubuntu when 24.04 comes out, I dunno. I have 20.04 as a daily driver and run into very few issues that are specifically Kubuntu related. I could use debian with KDE someday, I dunno.
  
  I just want Linux, bash, and a decent browser at the end of the day.
- The longest-running distro out there is mostly run by one guy.
  
  OpenSUSE? They have quite a few people working on that. Or did you mean another distro?
- JuSt UsE dEbIaN
- Ubuntu is great. I used it for years.
  
  This is going to sound petty, but one thing that annoyed me for years was the ads for their enterprise crap that they put into the terminal whn running updates.
  
  I tried Debian 12 when it came out and I love it. I switched all of my systems to Debian.
  
  I would much rather use a community driven distro than a corporate one.
  
  Also, I applied for a job with Ubuntu The recruiter sent me the most insane take home written interview packet. I took a look at it and decided I didnt want to work with a bunch of people who would fill that packet out.
Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Tubuntu, Hubuntu, Dubuntu, Pubuntu, Vuduntu, Jubuntu.
- Ubuntu, Ubuntree, Ubunfur, Ubunfi, Ubunsi, Ubunsenn, Ubunnet, Ubu-9, Ubuten, Ubuntulovin, Ubuntwelve
- UwUntu
  
  Now I want OwOntoo
- That doesn't sound right but I don't know enough about Ubuntu off-shoots to dispute it.
- Jubuntu sounds like it would get you in trouble with H.R. if you recommended it to a coworker.
  
  Juubuntu sounds like enough.
- I wonder why the stopped using letter prefixes for new flavors. "Ubuntu Budgie" sounds kinda lame for a great flavor of Ubuntu.
Debian. There is only debian.
- And there doesn't need to be anything else.
- I use arch tho
- Debaiathan
- Nah there is Debian, Arch, Gentoo, and Linux from scratch depending on your level of madness.
  
  Everyone out here pretending like Redhat and openSUSE ain't real
Off the top of my head:

Ubuntu

Mint

MX

Debian

Devuan

Pop!_OS

Zorin

Kali

Fedora

Red Hat

CentOS

OpenSUSE

Rocky

Alma

Arch

Blackarch

Parrot

Manjaro

EndeavorOS

Garuda

Gentoo

Alpine

Puppy

Tinycore

PostmarketOS

Tails

Slackware

LFS (sort of)

Yocto (sort of)

Raspbian

Raspberry Pi OS
- You forgot Red Star OS
  
  I never forget Glorious Leader^TM OS
  
  Hannah Montana!
- Raspbian was renamed to Raspberry Pi OS, its the same distro so it doesnt count
  
  Whole list is invalid.
  
  Nope, they’re two different distros. The reason that Raspberry Pi OS was renamed is that the 64 bit version does not use code from the Rasbian project.
- Android OS
- Bodhi!
- There was even a bananian, but that's dead. armbian lives as well.
- Parrot, fuck... I never got that distro, it's like Manjaro, but worse...
  
  Isnt Parrot OS debian based and for pen-testing, like Kali?
- How could you forget Solus and Void, they're the best ones
- You smart.
Now name 10 distros that aren't based on each other. And yes I'm counting the *buntus as being based on Debian.

If you look at the famous lineage graph there's a fill out there but barely any reinvention of the wheel (not that that's a bad thing).
- Arch, Fedora(Red Hat), Debian, Linux from scratch, Suse.
  
  Goddammit!! That's harder than I thought it would be. Then again I'm a relatively new Linux user, I've only used it since 2005. 😋
  
  Edit:
  Arh stupid me forgot an obvious one, Gentoo.
  
  Without looking at timeline linked above:
  
  NixOS
  
  Slackware
  
  We still have 2 missing...
  
  You also probably have one in your pocket right now. Android.
- The bottom 25% of that graph is all non derivative OS, that's still a lot.
- I swear to Tux I hate how a "distro" is just some base with a different windows manager.
  
  Like....why can't I just change window managers instead of reinstalling everything.
  
  You can, even in such distros. For example, you can run GNOME under Kubuntu.
  
  I installed gnome in my lubuntu install and then removed lxqt
- Void
  
  Gentoo
  
  Slackware
  
  Alpine
  
  Debian
  
  OpenSuse
  
  RHEL
  
  Arch
  
  Bedrock
  
  LFS
  
  NixOS
  
  TinyCore
  
  Edit: no idea what Solus or KaOS are, I had only really heard of them a couple of times.
- Where is EndeavourOS in this 😢
- yeah most distros are the same often the only thing different is the packagemanager and themes oh and bleading edge software vs stable software
Android.

Come at me, bro.
- Chrome OS.
Hannah Montana Linux!

Its not what we deserve, but Its all what we need.
- no, you deserve it, you deserve Hannah Montana
- Nah my top g all the homies use temple os now
I think this is the wrong meme.

The Brooklyn 99 meme of "that was my fault" would have been much more apt.
- "apt" hehe
  
  Get it? :)
- one could say we set the meme bar too low
That's on me, I set the bar too low
- That's the correct meme.
Fuck snap. I quit Ubuntu after using it more than any other distro since 6.04. Debian 12 has been awesome.
- I quit Ubuntu after 14.04, haven't missed it at all
- You know what really makes me mad? Silanes. Silanes make me incredibly angry. After decades, I quit silanes. Fuck amorphous silicon.
Ubuntu with KDE = Kubuntu

Ubuntu with LXDE/LXQT = Lubuntu

Ubuntu with XFCE = Xubuntu

Ubuntu with Gnome ... Where is Gubuntu?
- It's a silent G
- Or Gnubuntu to trigger people
- There is Xubuntu, right?
  
  Yeah typo
- Buntu + unity = ubuntu
- xubuntu
  
  edubuntu
  
  Ubuntu MATE
  
  Ubuntu Kylin
  
  Ubuntu Budgie
  
  And cinnamon and unity for bonus points.
  
  and that's 10 🤝
  
  UwUntu for dessert.
The best jokes make you a little bit angry while also making you laugh
Let's see... Off the top of my head: Debian, Ubuntu, yiffOS, Arch, Gentoo, Red Hat, OpenSUSE, Mint, Fedora, Tiny Linux, Mandriva, CrunchBang, Raspbian.

Also I'm a windows user c:
- TIL about yiffOS lmfao
- CrunchBang. That's a word that I didn't read in like 10 years. I feel old.
  
  Makes me wonder if SliTaz is still around.
  
  i had some good times squeezing every last package down to the bare minimum and watching my RAM and CPU utilization approach 0% via the resource monitor widget for tint2
  
  only to have the laptop crash from tying to get a little too creative with fractals in Synfig :]
  
  I don't even remember how I heard about it. I think maybe I had a live CD that I messed with when I was a teenager, but I can't remember. I know I had live CDs for Arch and Mandriva though.
Raspi

Hanna Montana
Fedora, Redhat, Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo, Linux mint, Arch, Suse, Slackware, Centos, Manjaro, Scientific linux, Pinguy os, Sabayon, Linux from scratch, Puppy linux

Do I get a prize?
3 arch and 7 debians
- With ice and lemon.
- 3 rhel
Where's the lie ?
sorry but steve rogers is always right
I once used centOS for developments. Now I use Ubuntu Server after they killed that.
I hate how easy it was for me to think of ten
ubuntu, kubunto, Mint, LMDE, knoppix. Red Hat (Gah. fuckers.) Mandrake, Arch. Fedora. Debian, CentOS. Scientific. Slackware, Geentoo, mandriva... Raspbian.

And a runner up... FreeBSD. (Okay, so maybe it's not linux.)
- NetBSD in my case 😁.
Arch Linux Debian OpenSuse EndeavourOS Gentoo Slackware Void Linux Fedora Linux Mint NixOS

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