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    So I saw political compass memes a while ago and started making one, but then I started taking it too seriously and eventually turned it into a tier list. Idk if it makes sense to share it here, but idk where else to share such a thing. I also made a browser tier list, but idk where to share that either.

    This whole thing is a png export of a pure svg image. For some of the logos, I had to make them either from scratch or by using gimp and inkscape to convert a png into an svg (imperfect but good enough).

    Hopefully this is all formatted properly.

    OS Tier ListS-Tier (reasonably secure operating system):

    • Qubes OS

    Advanced (complicated setup and configuration):

    • Gentoo Linux
    • Guix System
    • Slackware Linux
    • Linux From Scratch (LFS)
    • Mobile NixOS
    • NixOS
    • Whonix
    • Predator-OS
    • Linux Kodachi
    • Gentoo FreeBSD

    Enhanced (optimized security and minimalism):

    • Alpine Linux
    • Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre
    • Chimera Linux
    • EasyOS
    • postmarketOS
    • Tails
    • Kicksecure
    • NetHydra
    • ParrotOS
    • OpenBSD
    • GrapheneOS
    • Secureblue

    Minimal (maximally mini resource use):

    • Tiny Core Linux
    • LibreCMC
    • Void Linux
    • Puppy Linux
    • AsteroidOS
    • Slitaz
    • 4MLinux
    • OpenWrt
    • DragonFly BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD

    Indie & BSD (independent distros and BSD systems):

    • PCLinuxOS
    • Dynebolic
    • KaOS
    • Mageia
    • LuneOS
    • Solus
    • AerynOS
    • GNOME OS
    • KDE Linux
    • GhostBSD

    Arch (reasonably fresh and arch-based):

    • SystemRescue
    • Parabola GNU/Linux-libre
    • pearOS
    • EndeavourOS
    • Nemo Mobile
    • Arch Linux Arm
    • BlackArch Linux
    • Archhurd
    • Archcraft
    • Nyarch
    • Ageless Arch
    • Arch Linux
    • CachyOS
    • Garuda Linux

    Debian (reasonably stable and debian-based):

    • Flora Linux-libre
    • Genuen
    • Devuan GNU+Linux
    • Loc-OS
    • antiX
    • MX Linux
    • Maemo Leste
    • Mobian
    • EmmabuntΓΌs
    • Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE)
    • Ageless Linux
    • Debian
    • KNOPPIX
    • PikaOS Linux
    • RetroPie
    • LibreElec
    • Vanilla OS

    Corpo-ish (corporation-created and/or dependent):

    • Replicant
    • Uruk GNU/Linux-libre
    • Trisquel GNU/Linux
    • AnduinOS
    • Linux Lite
    • UBports
    • Xubuntu
    • Lubuntu
    • Kubuntu
    • Linux Mint
    • KDE neon
    • Fedora
    • Asahi Linux
    • Bazzite
    • Nobara Linux
    • Rocky Linux
    • AlmaLinux
    • openSUSE

    Corporate (corporation-owned and/or controlled):

    • /e/OS
    • Sailfish OS
    • PureOS
    • Manjaro Linux
    • Raspberry Pi OS
    • OSMC
    • Kali Linux
    • Zorin OS
    • Tuxedo OS
    • Pop!_OS
    • elementary OS
    • Ubuntu
    • Proxmox
    • SteamOS
    • CentOS Stream
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
    • CloudLinux OS
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise
    • Unraid

    Dubious (questionable and/or suspicious):

    • Waydroid
    • Artix Linux
    • Omarchy
    • OpenMandriva

    Borderline (possibly dangerous and best to avoid):

    • LineageOS

    MALWARE (actively dangerous and harmful to use):

    • android
    • chromeOS
    • Apple Operating Systems (macOS, iOS, etc.)
    • Windows
    • Red Star OS
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    [–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 minutes ago

    i dont use arch btw

    [–] j3tt@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

    Did you forget about Clonezilla, Fedora Silverblue and their other variants?

    My personal S-tier is Debian stable.

    [–] keiko@fedia.io 2 points 55 minutes ago (1 children)

    I'd figured that all of the various flavours of Fedora would be represented by the single Fedora logo in the Red Hat group. I do have Secureblue in a special "Secure Fedora" group in the Enhanced row, since it's more independent from Red Hat than Fedora itself.

    As for Clonezilla, where would you place it? And where would one find an svg of the logo? I did leave out distros for which I could not find an svg logo (except for the few I was able to make myself).

    My personal S-tier is Debian stable.

    Valid ❀️

    [–] j3tt@lemmy.world 1 points 50 minutes ago (1 children)

    Oh, but you have variants of Ubuntu. Do you have them, because there are technically not part of Canonical? This, I would understand.

    For me, CloneZilla is a sysadmin tool. Wouldn't have guessed that they don't have a SVG version of their logo.

    [–] keiko@fedia.io 1 points 25 minutes ago

    Oh, but you have variants of Ubuntu. Do you have them, because there are technically not part of Canonical?

    Yeah, that's my reasoning for including them and for the row they occupy.

    For me, CloneZilla is a sysadmin tool. Wouldn't have guessed that they don't have a SVG version of their logo.

    I'm not saying they don't have an svg logo, just that I hadn't come across it when searching for as many operating system logos as I could find. I had started with distros I've used and then worked my way through popular distros. Clonezilla had seemed more of a tool and less of a distro so I hadn't spent much time searching for its logo. If i were to add it, I'd probably want it in the debian row, which is already quite full.

    [–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

    Edit: see response from OP.

    ~~Come again? What's wrong with Artix?~~

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    [–] keiko@fedia.io 10 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

    In reading about it, I learned that the devs are apparently hateful and hostile to transgender people. When trying to see for myself, I found their forums gated, inaccessible to the public. So I placed Artix in the Dubious row to represent my unwillingness to recommend it.

    [–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 hour ago

    Thanks for doing the research and informing me! πŸ™πŸ˜­πŸ©·

    [–] heliotrope@retrofed.com 2 points 40 minutes ago

    Oh fuck!

    [–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 points 51 minutes ago (1 children)

    Why is elementaryOS corporate?

    [–] keiko@fedia.io 1 points 40 minutes ago

    From wiki/Elementary_OS:

    The operating system, the desktop environment (called Pantheon), and accompanying applications are developed and maintained by elementary, Inc.

    From elementary.io:

    The elementary brand belongs to elementary, Inc., the company that guides and supports development of elementary products.

    [–] toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

    There are some weird picks here. Is replicant even maintained anymore? UBports and Asahi Linux in Corpo-ish? And what do you have against LineageOS?

    [–] keiko@fedia.io 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

    From the Ageless Linux site:

    Ageless Linux is a Debian-based operating system distribution.

    It didn't have a logo so I made one based on the styling of the site. There used to be a site for Ageless Arch not long ago, and so I had made a logo for it based on what I'd made for Ageless Linux. The site seems to be offline now but I kept the logo in the list anyway.

    UBPorts was created by a corporation and is an ubuntu distro. Asahi Linux is a Red Hat (Fedora) distro. I'd wanted corporate influence to be represented.

    LinageOS is not degoogled and will connect to google unless properly firewalled, which afaik cannot be done properly on-device. Waydroid is basically a containerized LineageOS which can at least be firewalled from the host os, but that's sub-optimal, which is why I have it one notch above LineageOS

    Edit: Replicant is still technically maintained but has fallen very far behind.

    [–] toothbrush@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 55 minutes ago* (last edited 51 minutes ago) (1 children)

    true. I will adjust my comment. Good logo!

    Lineage is not gegoogled? You have to install google services seperatly, when does it connect?

    I suppose if corporate status is inherited that may be correct. in my opinion, its a bit too far removed to be corporate. Asahi linux is a purely volunteer distro, and ubuntu mobile was discontinued years ago, and is also purely volunteers-run nowadays.

    [–] keiko@fedia.io 2 points 44 minutes ago

    Lineage is not gegoogled? You have to install google services seperatly, when does it connect?

    I had tried Waydroid (containerized LineageOS) on my linux phone, and the OpenSnitch firewall running in the host linux system flagged multiple google connections that Waydroid was attempting to make upon starting. Basic connectivity stuff, but googled nonetheless. There aren't any disclaimers I saw on their site about it, but I also didn't see anything about LineageOS advertising itself as degoogled in the first place. I view degoogled android as generally acceptable (though it's not for me), but degoogled android is unacceptable (in my view).

    in my opinion, its too far removed to be corporate.

    That's why I called it "corpo-ish" :p (cuz I have no idea how else to describe the corporate relationship at play). But yeah, the corporate row is acceptable to me. They get a passing grade. I still use PureOS on my Librem 5 and OSMC on my Vero and have my parents setup with /e/OS on their Fairphones. Valid options all around.

    [–] username_1@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 hour ago

    Tier 1; OS: Debian.
    Tier 2; Hmm: Red Hat, Arch, Gentoo.
    Tier 3; Shit: Android, Windows, TR-DOS.
    Tier 4; Is it even an OS: all others...

    [–] keiko@fedia.io 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

    And if this works, here's the light-mode themed version of the os tier list:

    operating system tier list in light-mode theme (full description in main post)

    [–] ForgottenUsername@lemmy.world 1 points 34 minutes ago* (last edited 31 minutes ago) (1 children)

    [–] keiko@fedia.io 1 points 32 minutes ago

    lol sorry. idk how to spoiler uploads on mbin or if it's even possible.

    [–] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world -1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

    Mint is corpo-ish? That's new to me.

    [–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

    mint is based on ubuntu (except for the mint debian edition) which is probably why it is there

    [–] keiko@fedia.io 2 points 1 hour ago

    This was my reasoning, yes.