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    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/

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    My car's infotainment system (a newish Honda Jazz) is running Android (which I understand is based on Linux β€” 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 β€” 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.

    [–] thisisnotausername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 140 points 1 week ago (2 children)
    [–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    "The root password is password, don't let your dreams be memes little guy, good luck."

    [–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 64 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Also, all three pictured devices are probably running Linux... Or at least could.

    [–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    windows CE is truly the stuff of nightmares

    [–] Phen@lemmy.eco.br 20 points 1 week ago

    In the early century I've seen companies bundle an entire pc (with case and all) inside their own products just to avoid dealing with windows CE.

    [–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    ...but if you mix it with ME and NT you have a solid OS.

    [–] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    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.

    [–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 week ago

    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.

    [–] lime@feddit.nu 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    the big dog in the vehicle space is more likely QNX, which is still up to date.

    [–] potatoguy@potato-guy.space 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

    Just works should change from mint to cachyos, fuck around and find out should be gentoo, linux from scratch is you building it from literally nothing, not even torvalds do that (he uses fedora).

    Should also have another one, the best:

    OpenSuse Tumbleweed

    I use it on my work machine, against all managerial shenanigans, truly the best distro.

    Edit: I'm drunk, so I'm making the worst comments ever seen

    [–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Pretty sure Torvalds originally built Linux from not Linux

    Torvalds, looking at Linux From Scratch like "Bish please."

    [–] potatoguy@potato-guy.space 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Yeah, minix, etc. I'm drunk, so don't take my comments as anything serious.

    [–] Forester@pawb.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    And minix is a unix fork. Unix itself being a child of Multics.

    [–] fartsparkles@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

    Minix is not a Unix fork, it’s a Unix-like (along with Linux). Tanenbaum wrote Minix from scratch as an educational tool. It’s userland these days is basically NetBSD but at the kernel level, Minix has a very different architecture to Unixes.

    Something something don't cite the deep magic to me

    [–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

    I remember when Gentoo came out and people said it was the simple one

    [–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 7 points 1 week ago

    Tumbleweed is amazing. Got me onto Linux for good.

    I've moved on to CachyOS now. But Tumbleweed truly does not get recommended enough.

    [–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago

    OpenSuse, hell yeah

    [–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

    fuck around and find out should be gentoo,

    Or Slackware.

    [–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 22 points 1 week ago

    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" πŸ˜‚

    [–] miraclerandy@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Lol. As a newbie who is using mint, I assumed that was the kid toy

    [–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

    Mint is the majority of my Linux experience, too.

    [–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Linux accommodates everything, up to abd including infantilization fetishes.

    [–] Sarothazrom@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

    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:

    [–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

    Oh, it is.

    And I like it.

    Nah, it does all the stuff,and can still open terminal to play.

    [–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] bigb@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

    As it should be :)

    [–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    On WAN show last week, Luke mentioned he's daily'ing Linux on his work laptop. In the past, he has used Mint because "it just works" but always had problems so he would give up.

    He expected to try Mint again, but decided to go nuclear and try Arch. For him, Arch just worked.

    Just goes to show that different distros can mean different things to different people.

    [–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    I have not had to really mess with CachyOS for over a year, while β€œstable” distros were a nightmare for me.

    …Yeah it just depends what you’re trying to get your system to do. Arch can range from incredibly hazardous to β€œit just works” depending on the person and thing, and so can Mint. I think most distros should be viewed that way.

    [–] ShankShill@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

    That's also been my experience on multiple systems. But one thing that's seemingly inevitable for me with Arch, things will eventually become flaky and I cannot solve it without a reinstall.

    For instance, when I first got my RX 9070XT on a 3 year old arch install, it worked great. Then Cyberpunk would crash the graphics driver, but only during the benchmark or moving around. 3 months later there was no change. Bought a new PSU cuz I was running one 100w under spec (PowerSpec 650w bronze... bought a Corsair RM1000x) and nope.

    I eventually got fed up and decided to go the immutable route. Works great again.

    [–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    It needs a fourth image with no user interface

    [–] pelya@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

    No-user-interface Linux would look like this

    [–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

    SSH wrench for the win

    [–] epicstove@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    A horse carriage?

    Maybe the first prototype car?

    [–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    No, something witb physical levers, or an imposing tangle of wires and displays.

    [–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Steam locomotive, after the boiler blows looking all Lovecraftian.

    Yes! Or chernobyl?

    [–] Zacryon@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
    [–] rtxn@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

    And don't you wish it weren't.

    [–] mcmxci@mimiclem.me 1 points 1 week ago

    As it should be

    [–] Pat_Riot 1 points 1 week ago

    What do we have here? Arch, Mint and Puppy?