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Acabo de entrar a #Distrowatch y me encontré con una nueva distro #argentina llamada #TitalCruiseOS, pensada para desarrolladores y administradores de sistemas, ni idea que tal sea de estable o de agilidad pero siempre es bueno tener distros de ese estilo. Les paso el link por si quieren chusmearla jeje: https://titalcruise.wixsite.com/titalcruise-oficial

82% of #Distrowatch readers who answered this poll use #iOS. I’d have thought #Linux users would lean much more toward #Android

https://distrowatch.com/weekly-mobile.php?issue=20260713#poll

@distrowatch

@amin

I think my problem is that I might actually be more cynical than the people loudly complaining about it, although the lack of consistency is kind of annoying.

Here's the #DistroWatch top 15:

1. CachyOS (Active)
2. Linux Mint (Active)
3. MX Linux (Active)
4. PopOS (Active)
5. Debian (Last post 2025, pinned comment about why they're not posting there anymore)
6. ZorinOS (Active)
7. Fedora Project (Last post 2024, no comment in bio about not posting, or why, but there's a mastodon link)
8. Ubuntu (Active)
9. EndeavourOS (Active)
10. Bazzite (Active)
11. Manjaro (Last post 2025-08-07, no mention in bio or pinned comment about why they're not posting)
12. Arch Linux (no X account)
13. AnduinOS (no X account)
14. PikaOS (no X account)
15. OpenSuSE (Active)

I mean... what the flaming gehenna, already. 🤦‍♂️

And any that don't will most likely have facebook and/or insta accounts, and that's almost just as bad.

cc: @cmccullough

#Mozilla #X #Xitter #Twitter #BirdSite #HellBird

Been meaning to send this toot for about a month, but I wanted to give the pertinent episodes a re-listen to make sure I didn't miss anything important:

Many thanks to the folks at @tuxjam for their kind shout-outs. I'm chuffed you guys liked my little @distrowatch [script. You're right that I changed it from using the top 100 list to the top 400+, just because I didn't want it to keep recommending the same distros over and over again. It sounds like it really took you to rarely trodden places in #DistroWatch, and that makes me happy.
If you guys have any suggestions or requests for the script, just let me know. I thought I might add a history feature to it, so you can recall previous distro recommendations.

I recall @mcnalu mentioning an article about color accuracy in #astrophotography called something like "Blue Lions in the Serengeti," but I couldn't find it anywhere searching online. Would you happen to still have a link to it, Andrew?

P.S., Please tell @thelovebug that he's free to use whatever office suite he likes, but @libreoffice definitely has a [ribbon mode], likely included out of compassion for those suffering from RISS: Ribbon Interface Stockholm Syndrome 😝

(Also, Dave, if you have any other "this interface looks like it's from 20 years ago" app recommendations, I'm all ears, bruv, because that was the high water mark for UI Design as far as I'm concerned! 😄 )

All razzing aside, thanks for all the good work, and looking forward to the next episode! Cheers. :D

@solusspider @RL_Dane

You have been missed, my man!

Well, let's see...

I got on a text editor kick, learning #ed (the quintessential Unix text editor), and switching from neovim to stalwart old nvi (close clone of the original vi) and sometimes vim-classic

June was an amazing (and exhausting) month for blogging: https://rldane.space/junited-2026.html ( #JUNited )

Oh, I wrote a #DistroWatch Roulette shell script for our friends at @tuxjam, which they seemed to really like (thanks for the shout-out, lads! :D )

https://codeberg.org/rldane/scripts/src/branch/main/dwroulette

On the whole, doing pretty well!

So glad to see you around these parts again! 💗

I honestly never expected this 😳

BashCore is now in the Top 50 most popular distributions on DistroWatch this week.

What started as a small Debian-based learning project has grown into a family of 7 distributions used and explored by people around the world.

Thank you to everyone who gave BashCore a chance. I hope it has helped someone learn, build, experiment, or simply have fun 🤟🏻

https://distrowatch.com/table-mobile.php?distribution=bashcore

#Linux #Debian #Ope #CyberSecurity #Privacy #BashCore #DistroWatch

More thoughts on #CachyOS...

• btrfs has some noticeable hesitancy at times, even on a fairly fast (8th gen i5) machine
• if you're (understandably) avoiding the AUR, the proper pacman archives feel a bit slim at times:

rld@prometheus:~$ pacman -Ss |grep "^[^ ]" |cut -f1 -d' ' |cut -f2 -d/ |sort -u |wc -l
16057

-- compare with #Debian (actually RasPiOS, in this case) --

$ for x in {a..z}; do apt-cache search $x; done |cut -f1 -d' ' |sort -u |wc -l
74416

(Not sure if that's accurate, but #DistroWatch says Debian has over 50,000, and Wikipedia says almost 70,000)

• I've had to come up with a couple bespoke "daemons," one to refresh the xrdb every 10 seconds (NO idea why xrdb forgets everything so often on this box), and one to refresh the keyboard brightness (I use symlinks in my home directory for this) every two seconds, so that it retains the setting after resuming from sleep.

UID          PID    PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
rld         8035       1  0 May11 ?        00:00:00 sh -c while xrdb < ~/.Xdefaults; do sleep 10; done
rld        25572       1  0 04:19 ?        00:00:01 sh -c while grep -om1 [0-9] .kbd_backlight |tr -dc 0-9 > ~/.kbd_backlight-sys; do sleep 2; done

rld@prometheus:~$ file .kbd*
.kbd_backlight:     ASCII text
.kbd_backlight-sys: symbolic link to /sys/class/leds/tpacpi::kbd_backlight/brightness
rld@prometheus:~$ grep . .kbd*
.kbd_backlight:2
.kbd_backlight-sys:2
rld@prometheus:~$ 

@tuxjam @kevie @solusspider

Just FYI, I've now updated the script (as of yesterday) to use the longer (~474 items) list from @distrowatch, rather than just the top 100 ;)

#DistroWatch

Kann ich bestätigen, was kürzlich bei #distrowatch ("poor experience") berichtet wurde. Versuchte #d77void #mangowm edition zu installieren, aber der calamares Installer stieg mit Fehlermeldung aus.

#wayland #windowtiling #voidlinux

A wee gift for my friends at @tuxjam :

[dwroulette]: a web scraper (written in #POSIX #shell) for #DistroWatch that gives you one of the top 100 #Linux distros completely at random. 😅

#TuxJam @kevie @solusspider

@distrowatch

ℹ️ Now DistroWatch will need to include a new item on the distro description page:

• Age verification: yes / no

#DistroWatch #AgeVerification #linux #bsd

CachyOS Is Now the Most Popular Desktop Distro on ProtonDB

https://boilingsteam.com/cachy-os-is-now-the-most-popular-distro-on-proton-db/

And it is also the first in distrowatch rank

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=cachyos

#linux #foss #protondb #distrowatch #CachyOS #archlinux #arch

I’ve decided to #support ZorinOS.

I just upgraded some of my personal computers to Zorin 18 Pro. :zorin:

#Pay4TheFOSSYouUse ☔ :fosstodon:

#Zorin #ZorinOS #ZorinOS18 #Zori18 #ZorinOsPro #linux #LinuxDistro #DistroWatch #Foss #OpenSource #Fediverse #SupportYourFOSS

BashCore has officially landed on Distrowatch!!!

Seeing my ecosystem listed is a HUGE milestone!

Grateful, proud and ready for what comes next.

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=bashcore

#Linux #Debian #Privacy #BashCore #Distrowatch

POV : Tu ouvres ton agrégateur RSS le jour de la sortie d'une point-release Ubuntu... 😱 C'est plus un flux, c'est un tsunami ! On va avoir du pain sur la planche pour tout tester 🐧💻
#Ubuntu #OpenSource #RSS #FreshRSS #DistroWatch

@freifunkMUC ooohhhh, schwierige Frage, da gibt es hier im #fediverse sehr unterschiedliche Meinungen. :mastorofl:

Aber vielleicht die Top 10 von #distrowatch ?

DistroWatch Weekly Review - Manjaro Linux 26.0

https://feddit.online/c/linux/p/1425885/distrowatch-weekly-review-manjaro-linux-26-0

AerynOS has made it into the @distrowatch Top 40 for the default 6 month average.

We were added less than a year ago and have gradually been rising up the ranks.

For an alpha distro, it's impressive as it shows there is pent up interest in our project and what we are trying to achieve!

#AerynOS #Distrowatch #Linux #Rust

Nice to see TROMjaro on the front page of DistroWatch :)

tromjaro.com/

#linux #opensource #tromjaro #arch #manjaro #distrowatch #foss #software

Linux alla conquista del mercato desktop. Perché Linux potrebbe finalmente conquistare il desktop nel 2026, cosa cambia rispetto a Windows. L’evoluzione del desktop Linux: vantaggi di sicurezza, privacy e longevità rispetto a Windows, le sfide della frammentazione e dei pacchetti software, le resistenze culturali e di mercato.

https://scienzamagia.eu/world-wide-web/linux-alla-conquista-del-mercato-desktop/

#Cinnamon #desktopLinux #DistroWatch #GNOME #KDEPlasma #LinusTorvalds #MATE #sistemidesktop #Ubuntu

Je repensais à DistroWatch après 18 mois d'absence. Mon cerveau : "Ah oui, ce site !" Mon cœur : "Euh, on s'en fout non ?" 🤔
Bref, voici un post pour une redécouverte... que je n'aurais jamais dû faire 🤷‍♂️ Merci pour le temps perdu. Je retourne à mes vraies passions !
C'est quoi le vrai site indispensable (pas inutile) de la tech, selon vous ? Balancez tout ! 👇
#TechMinimaliste #DistroDrama #Adieu #Linux #Humour #Distrowatch

What is a Linux distribution?

Good question.

FreeBSD – up to position 26 (seen in this Linux Renaissance video) is:

― a distro
― a talking point
― a gift.

<https://youtu.be/G5lUyt3pM90?si=yRDYHcOMUaOpkp0o&t=75>

https://silversword.online/@darth/115430924049575456 @darth

<https://distrowatch.com/> @distrowatch

#DistroWatch #Linux #FreeBSD #distro #distribution

#PureOS está discontinuada? La busqué en #Distrowatch y figura inactiva.

Gerade auf #distrowatch entdeckt:
https://linuxkamarada.com/en/

Brasilianische Distro - klingt mehr nach einer schwäbischen Enklave ("Linux-Kameraden").
hihi

How to choose the perfect #Linux #Distro for you

This guide may be a bit different from what you know. Linux offers a ton of choice, and there are some factors you might want to think of, rather than using #DistroWatch or #DistroChooser for a half-baked recommendation.

Dont hesitate to try them out! But for a longer investment, make a good decision!

https://slrpnk.net/post/21305064

#EndOf10 #SwitchToLinux #LinuxDesktop #Fedora #Debian #NixOS #UniversalBlue #HeliumOS #AtomicDesktops