I always find it funny when people do that with Windows, Mac, and Linux. It completely misses the fact that Linux can be all of these things.
OS for kids: https://www.sugarlabs.org/
Just works: https://www.linuxmint.com/
Fuck around and find out: https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
Also Linux:
“The root password is password, don’t let your dreams be memes little guy, good luck.”
Also, all three pictured devices are probably running Linux… Or at least could.
windows CE is truly the stuff of nightmares
…but if you mix it with ME and NT you have a solid OS.
Ugh.
More likely running Wind River’s VxWorks. Which, as far as I know is the big dog in the RTOS space. The OS being deterministic is super important in safety critical applications like flight computers and cars. Wind River does have a linux distro, but I don’t think VxWorks is. Although, they’ve kind of got caught being complacent and others are moving into the space like Red Hat In Vehicle Operating System.
For a few brief beautiful moments, I assumed you were talking about the firmware running on the Fisher Price toy.
As your answer included more details, my understanding became a delightful confusion and then realization.
Lol. As a newbie who is using mint, I assumed that was the kid toy
Mint is the majority of my Linux experience, too.
Oh, it is.
And I like it.
Linux accommodates everything, up to abd including infantilization fetishes.
Me, using mint in my full diaper and pacifier, while commenting to normies on the internet why they need to uninstall every Google app on their phone:
Nah, it does all the stuff,and can still open terminal to play.
I really thought this meme meant that Linux is running on all of those things and I though “what crackhead at Fischer Price put a raspberry pi in a children’s toy” 😂
Linux nowadays is the toyish easy case, but it comes with a screwdriver to open it and have as much complicated system as you want.
As it should be :)
It needs a fourth image with no user interface
No-user-interface Linux would look like this
SSH wrench for the win
A horse carriage?
Maybe the first prototype car?
No, something witb physical levers, or an imposing tangle of wires and displays.
Steam locomotive, after the boiler blows looking all Lovecraftian.
Yes! Or chernobyl?
There is Windows IoT.
And don’t you wish it weren’t.
What do we have here? Arch, Mint and Puppy?
My car’s infotainment system (a newish Honda Jazz) is running Android (which I understand is based on Linux — this is me saying “yes, and…” to the OP). I’m unsurprised by this, but also for some reason, I find it quite funny how it doesn’t look like Android — until you go delving in the settings and hidden menus to discover that the developer’s settings (and how you enable them) is exactly the same as my phone.
