Ok, this requires some explanation:

I was at a party quite recently, and there was a girl reading the “demonic” tarot to the people there. Now, I don’t believe in any of that, but just for laughs, I asked which linux distro I’d be installing this year, to which she pulled the “Lucifer” card. This should be “Death” in the traditional version. She told me it’s related to new beginnings or something like that.

So, I’ve got time to kill, I’m willing to try something new and I’d like to turn this into a self fullfilling prophecy.

Now, I’d like your interpretation. What would this distro be? Because this is a Linux sub-lemmy I’d give preference to linux distros; however I’m also open to any other UNIX-based operating systems if you insist.

It also has to be something new to me. So, no Artix, Debian, Fedora, Mint or Arch btw.

  • GustavoM@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 day ago

    A trickster that wants to make a fool of everyone out of pleasures and illusions of grandeur? Definitely Ubuntu. Promises a “easy to use” distro while installing unsolicited packages and fetching unauthorized info without your consent on the background.

  • kyleraykbs@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    1 day ago

    NixOS will change how you look at computing, it is quite literally like dieing then stepping into a new world, Google “nixos learning curve” and look at the images, you’ll get it.

    • Shareni@programming.dev
      2·
      24 hours ago

      Or it’s just a distro that allows you to have a list of packages, configs (when it’s not significantly simpler an clearer to just stow), and rollbacks for both. Depends on you.

      I believe it’s got a death and purgatory feel to it if you don’t know some coding, so it should go nicely with the card.

  • typhoon@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 days ago

    Manjaro?

    Not sure how Solus is doing nowadays as well but maybe a tiny bit better than Manjaro?

  • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    none. sounds like you’re cursed to ride the windows train for life.

  • ddh@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    24·
    2 days ago

    Kali, also called Kalika, is a major goddess in Hinduism, primarily associated with time, death and destruction.

  • SolarPunker@slrpnk.net
    4·
    1 day ago

    For some cult Lucifer is also the symbol of knowledge and science versus the imposed conservatorism of God, so it can be learning a rolling distro like Arch or Void.

  • tekeous@usenet.lolEnglish
    11·
    2 days ago

    TempleOS was a biblical themed distro that is perhaps most famous for the creator, Terry A. Davis, who died when he was hit by a train.

  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    Hm, death could be interpreted in a number of ways.

    Does Almalinux’s 10 year support represent death by being unchanging, stagnation?

    Or should it mean a distro that is on death’s door, with less and less developers working on it each year? Solus, Mageia and OpenMandriva might qualify there.

    Void Linux seems fitting from the name alone, though otherwise doesn’t really go with the theme.