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

real

windows CE is truly the stuff of nightmares

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.

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

Mint is the majority of my Linux experience, too.

Linux accommodates everything, up to abd including infantilization fetishes.

Oh, it is.

And I like it.

As it should be :)

Pretty sure Torvalds originally built Linux from not Linux

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

Tumbleweed is amazing. Got me onto Linux for good.

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

OpenSuse, hell yeah

fuck around and find out should be gentoo,

Or Slackware.

I have not had to really mess with CachyOS for over a year, while “stable” 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 “it just works” depending on the person and thing, and so can Mint. I think most distros should be viewed that way.

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.

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

No-user-interface Linux would look like this

A horse carriage?

Maybe the first prototype car?