I always find it funny when people do that with Windows, Mac, and Linux. It completely misses the fact that Linux can be all of these things.
OS for kids: https://www.sugarlabs.org/
Just works: https://www.linuxmint.com/
Fuck around and find out: https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
Also Linux:
real
Also, all three pictured devices are probably running Linux… Or at least could.
windows CE is truly the stuff of nightmares
In the early century I’ve seen companies bundle an entire pc (with case and all) inside their own products just to avoid dealing with windows CE.
…but if you mix it with ME and NT you have a solid OS.
Ugh.
More likely running Wind River’s VxWorks. Which, as far as I know is the big dog in the RTOS space. The OS being deterministic is super important in safety critical applications like flight computers and cars. Wind River does have a linux distro, but I don’t think VxWorks is. Although, they’ve kind of got caught being complacent and others are moving into the space like Red Hat In Vehicle Operating System.
For a few brief beautiful moments, I assumed you were talking about the firmware running on the Fisher Price toy.
As your answer included more details, my understanding became a delightful confusion and then realization.
the big dog in the vehicle space is more likely QNX, which is still up to date.
Just works should change from mint to cachyos, fuck around and find out should be gentoo, linux from scratch is you building it from literally nothing, not even torvalds do that (he uses fedora).
Should also have another one, the best:
OpenSuse Tumbleweed
I use it on my work machine, against all managerial shenanigans, truly the best distro.
Edit: I’m drunk, so I’m making the worst comments ever seen
Pretty sure Torvalds originally built Linux from not Linux
Torvalds, looking at Linux From Scratch like “Bish please.”
Yeah, minix, etc. I’m drunk, so don’t take my comments as anything serious.
And minix is a unix fork. Unix itself being a child of Multics.
Something something don’t cite the deep magic to me
Minix is not a Unix fork, it’s a Unix-like (along with Linux). Tanenbaum wrote Minix from scratch as an educational tool. It’s userland these days is basically NetBSD but at the kernel level, Minix has a very different architecture to Unixes.
I remember when Gentoo came out and people said it was the simple one
Tumbleweed is amazing. Got me onto Linux for good.
I’ve moved on to CachyOS now. But Tumbleweed truly does not get recommended enough.
OpenSuse, hell yeah
fuck around and find out should be gentoo,
Or Slackware.
Lol. As a newbie who is using mint, I assumed that was the kid toy
Mint is the majority of my Linux experience, too.
Linux accommodates everything, up to abd including infantilization fetishes.
Oh, it is.
And I like it.
I really thought this meme meant that Linux is running on all of those things and I though “what crackhead at Fischer Price put a raspberry pi in a children’s toy” 😂
There is Windows IoT.
And don’t you wish it weren’t.
