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:
“The root password is password, don’t let your dreams be memes little guy, good luck.”
Linux nowadays is the toyish easy case, but it comes with a screwdriver to open it and have as much complicated system as you want.
On WAN show last week, Luke mentioned he’s daily’ing Linux on his work laptop. In the past, he has used Mint because “it just works” but always had problems so he would give up.
He expected to try Mint again, but decided to go nuclear and try Arch. For him, Arch just worked.
Just goes to show that different distros can mean different things to different people.
That’s also been my experience on multiple systems. But one thing that’s seemingly inevitable for me with Arch, things will eventually become flaky and I cannot solve it without a reinstall.
For instance, when I first got my RX 9070XT on a 3 year old arch install, it worked great. Then Cyberpunk would crash the graphics driver, but only during the benchmark or moving around. 3 months later there was no change. Bought a new PSU cuz I was running one 100w under spec (PowerSpec 650w bronze… bought a Corsair RM1000x) and nope.
I eventually got fed up and decided to go the immutable route. Works great again.
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” 😂
Also, all three pictured devices are probably running Linux… Or at least could.
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.
windows CE is truly the stuff of nightmares
…but if you mix it with ME and NT you have a solid OS.
It needs a fourth image with no user interface
No-user-interface Linux would look like this
SSH wrench for the win
Lol. As a newbie who is using mint, I assumed that was the kid toy
Linux accommodates everything, up to abd including infantilization fetishes.
Me, using mint in my full diaper and pacifier, while commenting to normies on the internet why they need to uninstall every Google app on their phone:
