• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    There are four main flavors

    • Debian - For every day
    • Red Hat - For work
    • Arch - To tinker and learn
    • OpenSuSe - To German
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      Also the additional flavours of

      • Nix – whole OS determined by 1 file
      • Gentoo – Arch but it takes longer
      • Alpine – small and simple
      • Slackware? – for old people
      • Void?? – like Alpine but not small and simple
      • LFS??? – like Gentoo but takes longer
      • AOSP??? – not even really Linux anymore
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        Gentoo – Arch but it takes longer

        Supports full binary versions since december 2023.

        Slackware? – for old people

        Aka people who know what they’re doing and what they want, noted.

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        Gentoo really has nothing to do with arch. Gentoo in my opinion is more like Debian with compiling and rolling release.

        And what about Fedora? Last I checked it was wildly popular.

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          Gentoo is just frequently cited as the “next step up” from Arch and also funny.

          And Fedora is bucketed into the Red Hat flavour.

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        Nix – whole OS determined by 1 file

        * Can be determined by 1 file. Or one file and a .lock file. Or even more files. Your pick, really.