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Check out the random button on Distrowatch (distrowatch.com/random.php) - it's like a Linux lottery, but you always win something weird!
Let's make this a game. Click on it, then you have to install that on bare metal and daily it for a month.
Got RISC OS
mom, I'm scared
Oh god, I got Murena (LineageOS distro). How does one install that onto a ThinkPad T480..
What are you currently using?
On that ThinkPad, LMDE.
I got portuex, never used Slackware but seems serviceable, I’m just scared of nVidia driver setup haha
I got Plamo Linux
Ha I got tuxedo OS, hopefully thats not too niche
That’s what I’ve been running on my gaming machine and it’s been great.
That's nice to hear!
Rockstor here. Which is interesting bc I’ve been thinking about setting up another NAS.
I got Linux Lite, which I've tried in the past.
Got PakOS, but since I'm not Pakistani I'm not sure how useful it would be
I got archcraft.
Lucky me. It's also from India which is fun.
https://distrowatch.com/table-mobile.php?distribution=archcraft
Gentoo. Not that bad for a random pick.
This distro’s default background isn’t a knockoff of any particular popular non-*nix proprietary operating system’s default background: