I see you’ve been rummaging around in my post history huh! Good one

[UPDATE] The results are in:

I decided to post my update as a comment because I don’t think it’s that important. This post gained quite a few down-votes (understandable), and I wouldn’t like to be a bother anymore.

Now, the first “distro” I thought about when I saw the card was definitely Linux From Scratch. I felt validated when I saw your comments, however I shall explain a bit more further down. Another one I thought about was Gentoo Linux. To my surprise it wasn’t mentioned. Lastly, while I was writing this post I definitely had FreeBSD in mind, so I included the “UNIX-based” requirement.

I just wanted to read your opinions and in the end I’m really happy I did.

Now, you commented, you voted, and the top 5 distros that you recommended were:

• FreeBSD: 63 Votes (Very devilish!)
• LFS: 55 Votes (Would make me cry blood)
• NixOS: 28 Votes (Very fitting to the original meaning)
• Void: 25 Votes (Interesting…)
• Kali: 23 Votes (I would have never thought of that)

The obvious winner is FreeBSD.
Now, I found this to be incredibly hilarious and immediately downloaded the iso image into my Ventoy. I went through the whole installation process and even got myself a minimal KDE plasma Desktop Environment. However, I was unable to use the touchpad on my Thinkbook laptop (work-issued) and that completely killed my joy. I tried a couple of fixes but I realized this wouldn’t be as straight-forward as I had hoped, which would mean a lot more time invested trying to learn and fix it, and immediately dropped the towel. I will be back to FreeBSD, this isn’t over!
However, for the time being I moved on to the next item on my list: Linux From Scratch.

After reading the LFS Book for a while, I came to the realization that this would be a huge undertaking and that I’d need a lot of prep-work and further reading. I’m not giving up quite yet on the LFS, but It’ll have to wait. I said I had time, but not that kind of time.
(The fact that I even considered LFS after a silly little defect from FreeBSD makes you wonder if I’m mentally stable, but yet again, I’m choosing my new distro based on a tarot card I got two weeks ago at a party while I was piss-drunk, so, uh)

For the time being I’m sticking with NixOS. Upon reading this particular comment section I can tell it’s got a lot of dedicated users (and preachers), which is very exciting. I did some reading about Nix and it sounds fascinating. I have now installed NixOS on my Laptop and got everything working fine. Now it’s just a matter of learning how to properly use it. In the future I’d like to carry on with the LFS installation and bring the Nix package manager along, I believe it’d be really cool. Right now I must learn more, so I would appreciate any advice and resources.
I would say NixOS fits well the description of the “Death” card on tarot because it represents a new beginning and a completely different mind-set. So yay! Thanks guys and gals. I appreciate your recommendations.

Honourable mentions (Distro recommendations I found hilarious):

• Temple OS: 16 Votes
• Ubuntu: 15 Votes
• Hannah Montana Linux: 11 Votes
• Windows: 4 Votes

You might think I’m a bit of a chicken for not following through with the top winners, and you are most definitely right, but I still have to learn more and I need that laptop for work on Monday, so, uh, sorry

I will consider it

[hmm… emoji]

So far, in no particular order, the most voted distros are:

• OpenBSD
• NixOS
• TempleOS(pls no)
• Linux From Scratch

I’ll be coming back tomorrow to find out what my next distro is going to be. I’m so pumped now that I just went and purchased a new SSD for this.

Do not tempt me! I shall return tomorrow and check on the general consensus.

I know a dedicated user of Mageia, that fact alone surprises me every day

I use audacious with a winamp skin.

My employer doesn’t want it and doesn’t need it. We offer programming courses and stuff like that, and my company got a deal with Oracle to offer these kind of certificates to our trainees as an added bonus. I’m being given the chance to participate as well just to inflate numbers or something.

Mint and manjaro(?

KDE and Cinnamon are solid desktop environments.

Thanks for the tip, I also consider myself a linux begginer. I started with arch (without arch-install). I’ve borked enough installations to not be a complete noob. So I guess I could try installing gentoo.

Noice!! Some day I’d like to try gentoo

https://stallman.org/saint.html

And saint IGNUcius of the church of emacs. May we recite our confession of faith:

There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels.

Can we change systemctl start to systemctl summon pls??

We call them the deep folk, some say they’ve gone completely insane

I use QEMU/KVM with virt-manager and I love it. I recommend that you check out a tutorial on how to install it and use it

I had no idea mageia existed until I met a dude who had it

That’s why I just use a VM, I skip all the complications of having to fix bootloaders and broken installs. If anything goes wrong with windows I just delete the VM. Arch barely uses any RAM, so even back when I had only 8GB, windows ran incredibly well. I’ve updated to 16GB (because I needed the 64 bit version of excel and I wasn’t being able to install it due to RAM requirements). Ever since then, I don’t even look back to dual booting.

Funny story, originally my laptop was dual booted, but I removed windows completely and formated the partition, and since it was at the beggining of the drive, and you cannot move blocks around so easily in storage (I needed another SSD or hard drive to copy them momentarily) I was left with a hole in my storage. What I did was, mount the directory with the VM image storage to the empty partition. So now it’s kind of “dual booting” with some extra steps and with the added benefit of being able to use both OS’ at the same time

[TL;DR] If possible, just use a VM

I don’t even want windows on raw metal, so I have a virtual machine for work stuff

We already have termux for that, and on a rooted device you could do pretty much anything. This is pointless