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    submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by ekZepp@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
     

    I'll add more distro from the suggestion in the comments.

    If you want to do it yourself here the clean map.

    Made with Gimp 3.0.6

    LAND of SLOPDOR

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    [–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    Add YellowDog and Clear Linux to the valley of the lost

    [–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

    Why are Ubuntu and Kubuntu so far away?

    [–] zonico@discuss.tchncs.de 52 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    Add Nixos. Also put Slackware to Valley of the lost

    [–] slothrop@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago

    slackware smirks in the way that only the subgenius can.
    praise bob.

    [–] gens@programming.dev 8 points 1 week ago

    Slackware teaches more then debian or arch (trumped only by LFS or old school gentoo). But sure, not many use it.

    [–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 50 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Not really Linux, but TempleOS should be in the fog somewhere. Maybe technically off the archipelago, but close enough to be related to it in some way.

    [–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    TempleOS actually enspirits a true hacker/unix philosophy, as bizarre as it is.Β 

    The Island of TempleOS is in the middle of the Holy Sea.

    [–] normonator@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Add some more height to the image and put it on a temple in the clouds.

    [–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

    This is the way... disconnected from internet and closer to god

    [–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

    got it πŸ‘

    [–] Canuck@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

    Gamers Bay of course with Steam and Bazzite. If there's a spot for mobile, Mobian & Postmarket are both top tier

    [–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    Steam OS feels more like a ship anchored in the archipelago. Bazzite is Indeed on land.

    [–] deus@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Why? SteamOS is based on Arch, it belongs here. I think a ship should probably be something like Android.

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    [–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Meanwhile openSUSE is still in Germany, just lederhosen & none of this enchanting tropical nonsense.

    I assume Hannah Montana is a mystical island only magical maps can lead to?

    [–] morto@piefed.social 25 points 1 week ago

    Where's the GNU fortress, with trisquel, parabola and others?

    Now let's make an rpg in that map, or maybe a new quest for supertuxkart

    [–] melfie@lemy.lol 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

    Over the years in search of a daily driver, I’ve done Ubuntu > Pop > Kubuntu > Mint > more distro hopping > Mint.

    It’s nice living on the beach. 😎

    [–] normonator@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    Lol at arch on the mountain. Every fucking noob goes straight for Arch.

    [–] serpineslair@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Nothing wrong with that, best way to learn the ropes is being chucked into the deep-end imho. Provided of course they are patient and willing to learn.

    [–] Whitebrow@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Thing is, even if you’re not patient and willing to learn, getting dumped into the deep end, struggling for 3 hours and then giving up and β€œdowngrading” to something like mint or bazzite is still a whole lot better than trying to unfuck windows 11 into a workable state.

    [–] normonator@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Basically this, they rage quit and go back to windows or even a Chromebook. I try to support customers on linux but they need to be talked away from Arch if they are just grtting started.

    Arch forces people to learn what MOST dont want to and MOST people shouldn't need to, just to do basic tasks on a computer.

    Switch to Arch later if you're curious and want the training wheels off, or don't if you just want to use your pc as an appliance and walk away.

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    [–] HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 week ago

    Gentoo belongs over on the Highs of Knowledge

    [–] lattrommi@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 week ago

    Manjaro is supposedly named after Mount Kilimanjaro and being arch-based, it would be appropriate to have it up on the mountain near Arch but lower.

    Perhaps a $path going up the mountain range could be added.

    The $path could be called "The Way" so you could put Arch BTW.

    [–] Deebster@infosec.pub 17 points 1 week ago

    I'd swap Arch and Gentoo - I think Gentoo should be on the precarious peak and Arch at a more accessible altitude.

    [–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)
    [–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 8 points 1 week ago

    The result of Curious George after his "Let's compile a Kernel!" hijinks!

    [–] toebhi@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 week ago

    Took me a minute to find openSUSE. It appears, the chameleon did its job

    Gentoo and LFS to the Highs of Knowledge

    somehow needs this meme in it:

    [–] sunstoned@lemmus.org 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    I feel like NixOS should be down a mineshaft underneath the Highs of Knowledge

    And Guix somewhere below that

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

    Instead of a circus, Ubuntu should be a bunch of people who live in a cave and see the world through shadows on the wall.Β 

    [–] mech@feddit.org 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    At this point I'm just glad Slackware is even on the map.

    [–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Slackware in the Valley of the Lost.

    "I'm not dead."

    "Yes you are."

    "I want to go for a walk!"

    [–] WillowBe@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Where is my os? aha. Joke apart, you could add NetBSD somewhere very deep for fun

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    [–] texture@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

    this is adorable

    [–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Gentoo should be on an island surrounded by a ring of rocks that makes it almost impossible to get to

    [–] unbuckled_easily933@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago

    And Arch should definitely NOT be on a Higher peak in the mountains of knowledge than Gentoo.

    [–] prowe45@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    I feel like Raspbian deserves a place on here somewhere, although I'm not sure where exactly. It's the distro I've installed the most times since I like to do Raspberry Pi projects, and I imagine there's quite a few people out there whose first major exposure to Linux was for the same reason. So maybe it should go near Welcome Bay?

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    [–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

    LAND of SLOPDOR

    you forgot to put OSX on there.

    [–] w3ird_sloth@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

    Lol nix is the dungeon. I love dungeon crawling. This tracks.

    [–] GlenRambo@jlai.lu 6 points 1 week ago

    Where would Free BSD live?

    And can Thx be some sort of sea monster/leviathan.

    Awsome work.

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

    Move TempleOS to a floating sky temple, and make where it is Portable Bay, where various portable linux ships are moored, named Knoppix (a galleon), Puppy Linux (a fishing boat), Slax (a little sailboat), and TinyCore (a rowboat or kayak)

    [–] Maragato@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Hello. One of the oldest Linux distributions, openSUSE, is missing.

    [–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    He's there, is mimetized.

    [–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Can you blame a Chameleon for blending in? Look to the right of Fedora.

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