steamos goes either above ubuntu or to the right of it or where ubuntu is
this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2026
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Saying Redhat is based on Fedora just seems wrong. I know there was discussion about this when the simpler version was posted and I think I understand that, today, RHEL is downstream of Fedora. But Redhat existed before Fedora so it still feels wrong to say Fedora is based on Redhat.
"Fedora Core 1 was the first version of Fedora and was released on November 6, 2003.[15] It was codenamed Yarrow. Fedora Core 1 was based on Red Hat Linux 9."
And putting RHEL anywhere but top line is sacrilege. Its actually, literally, specifically an IBM-purchased company's product. The Linux part is free, but there's corporate "special sauce" thrown in that's closed source.
Further left, you can find KolibriOS, AROS and way, way further down-left you can find DuskOS
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macOS*
I use NixOS btw.
Iβm an Arch-using anarchist. Please help.
I'll be honest, I hate Windows 11 but the plethora of Linux distros as well as opinions on them gives me serious decision paralysis.
Linux Mint is just Ubuntu but better, I strongly recommend it
Pick one. Use it for a while. Try a different one.
If you just want something that works out of the box and are very new to Linux, Iβd grudgingly recommend Ubuntu, and highly recommend Debian-based mint.
(Ubuntu is easier to get started but Iβm not a fan for a few reasons.)
If youβre familiar with Linux or donβt mind jumping into a learning curve, Endeavor OS is my current driver, and Iβm liking it.
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FreeBSD on the "Indy" side? I uh... Have to disagree. There's routers that ship with FreeBSD SPECIFICALLY because their license has no obligation to share sourcecode.
And putting RHEL anything but top line makes the whole thing unserious. A PRODUCT YOU BUY to even be able to download it is somehow not 100% corpo to you? Its named after the IBM-owned company that releases it. It is not 100% open source, it is Linux with proprietary "secret sauce" that's mostly for Servers - a niche usecase.
Alma is "built for enterprise" but somehow Indy? Now I know you're just messing with us. This cannot be serious.
Excellent Troll.
Still no Hannah Montana :(
That checks out.
I feel like BSDs being more over in the corpo-lib corner would make more sense just from a licensing perspective
If you're memeing, hard to omit Red Star OS
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Ooo and below the bottom left we have OpenBSD. =D
Poor SLES not being on the board with Redhat, and ubuntu.
FreeBSD is actually pretty mainstream because everyone who doesn't want to follow GPL or any copy left licenses tends to use it.
Which usually ends up being large companies like Netflix, Sony, or Nintendo.
Don't forget that its the base of OPNSense and pfSense, which are both pretty popular.
is it really still the same system if itβs a radically divergent userland? (see: android as a linux distribution)
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you motherf.... scare the shit out of me. putting mint that far right. make me look at the axes like a chump
I vote gLinux for the top left corner. Specifically made for in house work at Google, not officially available anywhere else. Or something similar.
Where does Bazzite fit into this? (Sincerely, someone who wants to switch to either Bazzite or CachyOS and can't decide between them)
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Debian is out of date :D
I'm running 6.19.8 kernel which is just two minor releases behind the latest kernel version.
Current Arch Linux, which is supposedly "Extremely up to date", ships with 6.18.13 kernel.
WTF?
If you choose to run linux-lts, sure, but the plain linux package also exists and is at 6.19.9.