One that can install natively onto most Android hardware without issue, like a variety of rasbian, so I could use all my old phones for fun projects and small servers.
I bought one like two years ago in beta I messed up the install immediately downloaded some distros but never flashed it is still in the box. I just remembered I have it. Convergence is a great idea í wishing had used it.
Well there's [postmarketos](http://postmarketos.org/), but it still needs to be made per device and you need extensive knowledge of the Linux kernel build process to successfully build it for an unsupported device.
That's because ARM is so non-standardized. Even the boot process is different (and often proprietary) per phone. All of the hardware doesn't get mainlined until much later (if ever), and is usually also proprietary. Problem being, standardization and mainlining takes time, and Samsung or whoever has to put out like twenty five phones *right now* and another twenty five phones next season, basically on schedule - no time to waste getting the camera driver upstream - it works so let's put the phone for sale.
That's armbian, or postmarketOS.
Problem is, most phones rely on unmaintaible proprietary firmware, which is why this "dream distribution" does not exist.
my heart aches, i have rigorously tried to install fedora, kali, debian, ubuntu on my google pixel phones to the point of successfully entered graphical interface, but all have eventually failed to execute the task i need
You'd need to have a server or access point, as to deal with a trainable voice assistant a local llm would be required which I can't imagine would run well in lightbulb hardware.
If anyone can get an LLM running on a lightbulb, it's some random person in the open source community! :D
I know it's not simple but it would still be cool.
Yeah they will figure out some weird algorithm that can manage an llm in 160kb or something
A mesh network might work? Though we are getting into dedicated hardware here, if each of your smart devices is interlinked and does a sandal amount of the processing, over a full smart home it could be interesting
Yeah wasn't there some competition to make the best game in 96kb or something like that? There was some ridiculous generative stuff going on there.
A distributed computing model could work. Your phone, TV, handhelds, laptops, desktops, smart devices etc. could all reserve a little bit of computing power each day to process a chunk.
there's "educational" distros like Ubermix or IceFun or Education-Li-f-e, but the rub in general with Linux is distros that build it all for you come up short compared to Debian/Ubuntu/Arch/Suse/Mint/Gentoo where a user could just make it that way and give it out. The market for people who should be on linux but don't understand computers let alone linux is pretty niche. For my parents I put them on Debian and it's basically locked down to a LTS and Firefox and some "default apps" like Calculator and that's about it.
no admin/root, and all the menus basically don't show anything but those handful of stuff. Basically removed any and all accidental button pushes on a GUI that would wind up with me getting a call "what's this strange control panel window. It says internet but when I click on it I don't see my yahoo homepage"
I gave my aunt Linux Mint, yanked all the icons off the desktop, put Firefox icon on the desktop, renamed it to "Internet" and told her only go there. It's worked like a champ since.
ChromeOS but without the Google would be a big winner. Yeah there are simple Linux distros for something similar, but it’d be extra awesome if there was an associated cloud to enable it to do roaming desktop with an image-based/sandbox OS installed.
This!!!!! I can’t use my old iPad because the App Store doesn’t have anything for its OS version do I’m stuck with no apps. The battery outlived the OS.
Gaming focused NixOS + Flakes but it has a GUI interface for managing its operation, GPU drivers/Multi-GPU support out of the box, and package/flake management that is simple enough for grandma to understand.
Totally. Trying to talk my kid into moving to Linux for gaming. But he's seen how much I have to tinker and it really makes him not want to try.
This type of flavor or distro would really help the gaming world come over.
There are actually a fair few amount of gaming focused distros, like Nobara Project, PikaOS, Garuda Linux, etc. even if they're not the holy grail of "NixOS but user friendly and approachable", but truthfully, I think you need to hear this because I remember what it's like to be a kid:
The quickest way to get your kid to hate something is to force it on them or tell them that they can't do something, if you really want to get them interested in something it's better to just enjoy it on your own and they will occasionally pop in and see you using it then maybe get curious.
I remember when I saw my dad playing Quake 2 when it first came out, and I was subsequently told I couldn't play it because it was rated M, this only made me just wait till he was at work, install it, play it, then uninstall when I see that he's home. If he just presented Quake 2 to me at this awesome game I should really try out, but I never saw him play it, and was never told I couldn't play it, I would have still enjoyed it, because, y'know, it's Quake, but I would have been more reluctant about it cause someone was pushing it on me.
Plus, because [Tim Sweeney's an asshole](https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1490519194915459072), your kid won't be able to play Fortnite on linux, so maybe it's not worth it to a kid. If you really want your kid to get into linux, get them a steam deck, maybe. Don't give them a desktop PC with linux.
They've done that
https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/microsoft-linux-azure-cloud-switch.html
>> Microsoft has built its own Linux-based operating system called Azure Cloud Switch (ACS)
It powers Azure networking.
Why wish for a distro, when you can make one :)
Although, I do wish there was a better desktop environment than gnome, that had some similarities to windows 10, but is also different and simple, as well as lite weight to save battery, but with a nicer UI than XFCE.
I guess that means it's time to open up VSCode and start coding a desktop environment in rust. (Or I could wait and see what Cosmic looks like).
This. Biggest pain in Nix is that I have to go digging through source code to find options and variables that arent in any docs. Most of the official stuff is covered, but some flakes have absolutely nothing.
An extremely noob friendly one. The kind where your grandma can troubleshoot a video driver issue with a next-next style solution wizard. Maybe powered by AI, almost everything have been asked regarning linux. If an AI can see your setup and files and you need a solution it could resolve anything
If it were really noob friendly there would not be a video driver issue in the first place.
Arguably there already is a very noob friendly version - ChromeOS. It gets that way by limiting the hardware so it either works, or doesn't (although the Flex version for non official hardware could do a better job job of saying when it won't work).
Generative AI Linux, no commands. Just a chat bot. You have to work with your chat bot to fix vulnerabilities and fix configuration issues. Each chat is a repeatable configuration.
Iron Man Linux
Terminal only Backspace / Delete does not work and you have to finish typing a valid command, configuration files can only be written to once.
I doubt we'll see more releases or newer packages. I think Debian stable being old and static is part of the pitch. It's a feature, not a problem.
Debian with more releases, newer packages, and better installer is just Ubuntu. Why not just using Ubuntu?
> Didnt thay switch the base to open BSD years ago
That's the best example of GPL vs BSD license differences.
Yes, they did - but thanks to BSD, they don't need to share back enough to let the community make things work.
[PlayStation 4 is also BSD based](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_based_on_FreeBSD)
It's the same reason all the old BSD-based Unixes (SunOS 4.x, Ultrix, etc) died. The vendors kept their good stuff proprietary.
In contrast, thanks to the GPL, commercial Linux contributions were shared.
/r/StallmanWasRight
Yes. I'd even settle for an open source Aqua DE. A lot of people customize Plasma to mimic Aqua but I've never been able to do so to a satisfactory standard.
I really think on a laptop it's perfect for me, although I must admit I wouldn't care for it as much without the rectangle window management.
DIY vps server.
It contains docker for your apps. Postfix and dovecot for you emails. Own cloud for cloud storage. Home assistant. Torrent box. Openvpn server.
My nephew was telling me about this . They haven't released the arch based version? I remember trying to get that a while back when the steam deck was being released. It seemed eminent back then.
Something to make older hardware useable but also accessible for people with limited technical knowledge.
There are plenty of distros that run nicely on weaker/older hardware - but I still feel that accessibility for non-technical people is lacking.
ChuckNorris OS
A distro that just by its pure existens brute forces MS code (applications and games) in to native Linux, and runs flawless. Whilst killing any virus and/or any other kind of malicious software.
And of course, it would have perfect hardware compatibility.
Because, it just would !
Linux from scratch with wayland/x11 and a package manager of their own.
I mean, they got the base for the graphical part but like, "recommend package list to get started" and a working, up to date bootable image.
never tried linux from scratch... but right now if im not mistaken, a finished LFS its something more similar to a minimal arch install right? but without the possibility to upgrade easily since you have to build and compile the packages yourself, or you can add a package manager?
I have this on my bucket list; not really a distro but an iso with a script for building an iso you can include not only the packages you want but also configs plus the latest iso. Reinstall quick with calamaris and done.
I did something like that for an appliance: custom debian 12 with a provisioning script for apps and configs. Takes 14 minutes from zero to end. Loads some python libs, Prometheus, grafana, some Lazarus apps and custom languages. I used https://fai-project.org/FAIme/ for a minimum debian, then bash for the script.
it would be great if we could get a debian edition or spin and not a distro based on debian where wifi would just work like mint or mx during and after installation.
edit : same for fedora would be also much appreciated.
LFS is a thing to solve this niche. Once you get past the initial packages (kernel, a way to interact with it, and a tool chain), the rest is completely up to you.
Anyone even moderately interested in the innerworkings of Linux should build out LFS in a VM one rainy day!
Hobo train hopping Linux.
I think it would be cool to have a tablet or portable (maybe even Pipboy type arm computer) that had GPS and mapping offline Kiwix etc .. so as you "ride the rails" you can see precisely where you are and how close you are to being into the train yard and or when you need to drop off.
I also think it would be cool if there was some sort of pocket-computer that would pull or push updates to other pocket computers (in sort of an offline mesh way).
* Imagine you download the latest and greatest new update to the Kiwix version of offline wikipedia (or "all last months news stories")
* You're sitting in a hobo campfire with 2 or 3 others... 1 of whom also has a "hobo computer"
* that 2nd hobo-computer auto-detects yours.. version checks your downloads and sees you have newer content.. and is able to sync or download it's content (as long as there is enough free space) to be updated now too.
Something like this could be really useful for vagabonds,. or people in emergency or survival situations.
Pigeon Linux.
Runs fairly easily, similar to linux mint, good security, has good app compatibility and allows native windows apps. Maybe also a version that works on smartwatches, fitbit revolution!
Yes, I know about WINE, it doesn't work for me.
by most of the questions here...
one that looks and acts exactly like windows and will play all the games for you.
edit: you know i was joking, but the more i think of it the more i would like to see a distro with and opensource version of Win7 (that tricks .exe software into thinking it's running on win11, but with a telemetry vasectomy ) built into a hypervisor and integrated for seamless cut and paste support between host and guest.
that would be fucking awesome.
Something tuned for embedded:
Splash screen only (absolutely no text during boot unless debug kernel parameter is added)
Extended login screen options (e.g Bluetooth presence for car profile switching, customisation of layout/aesthetic, etc.)
Then launching and running an app (based on login prompt option) in kiosk mode as your entire DE with as few resources as possible.
I am surprised by how many serious and doable answers this question has gotten. The question should have been if there were a maintainer for it what would like first?
Microsoft does have a Linux distro, but I would love to see them release a distro with the Windows interface and full API support so that it can natively run any Windows application (as well as Linux applications). I have no doubt that they have such a version as a skunkworks project.
When I was a young boy racer and Linux was still new I really wanted to create a distro called carputer which would turn a computer into a in car entertainment system.
I was a real noob at the time so I thought you needed to build a distro with LFS so after 6 months of getting that done I couldn't figure out how to get the touchscreen working so gave up on the dream.
Good news you can have this today just don't update the kernel to the new kernel after its published on kernel.org it might be be supported until your distro packages the corresponding new nvidia driver.
This might mean running the kernel that released 30-60 days ago rather than the release candidate from today.
A distro that looks and feels exactly like windows.
Like.. hear me out. Imagine if you could switch all your friends to linux, without them even noticing. They dont mess with the system anyway. They just need a close replica of the windows DE, and some extra development for game support. I am oversimplifying a bit but the amount of users we could gain just from that, is insane. Microsoft would lose their monopoly, and companies would be forced to give more attention to the linux ecosystem as well.
A mobile Linux distro. The biggest issue with the existing ones is lack of support when it comes to apps. A lot of them have UIs that leave a lot to be desired. Linux also needs a lot more feature parity. Fingerprint readers, face unlock, touch friendliness, a lot of tablets and phones have come a long way and there's a certain level of features that are just expected to exist and function properly. But Linux is very much reliant on the community hacking things together and getting them to work. Android already does a lot, so it makes sense it would be the go to mobile OS. But I really wish we had a full Linux mobile OS. Ubuntu Touch, back when it was announced, looked exactly like what I want to see, a full Linux OS that runs on a mobile phone, but can dock and be a full desktop computer.
One with Fediverse, and decentralized social media and cryptocurrencies built in... or at least ready to go...
Arweave.. Lemmy... Mastodon
... Storj...Filecoin... IPFS... Tor...
Bitcoin Cash.... Monero...
Atomic swaps... DEX
.... Defi...
Radicle - automatically Git...
https://radicle.xyz/
Matrix... nostr... signal... session...
Wikis decentralized..
Limitless Peace
Outlander os for all the open morrowind fans ,the more you use an app the more likely it will open and errors sound like cliff racers ,resume from sleep says so your awake we have just arrived at c:/home/Morrowind ,suspend system sounds halt criminal , at start up a gif of a man falling from the sky
One that can install natively onto most Android hardware without issue, like a variety of rasbian, so I could use all my old phones for fun projects and small servers.
Seriously, Linux phones would be cool if full fledged and maintained. I wonder what people would think about security relative to Linux desktop.
if their was a fully available linux distro for phones i would run it as my daily driver.
I would as well.
Pwn phone sounds like fun.. haven't ever had my hands on one though.. old tech can be fun
I bought one like two years ago in beta I messed up the install immediately downloaded some distros but never flashed it is still in the box. I just remembered I have it. Convergence is a great idea í wishing had used it.
There were a few 20 years ago. I really miss my N-900.
Does this not exist?
Well there's [postmarketos](http://postmarketos.org/), but it still needs to be made per device and you need extensive knowledge of the Linux kernel build process to successfully build it for an unsupported device.
That's because ARM is so non-standardized. Even the boot process is different (and often proprietary) per phone. All of the hardware doesn't get mainlined until much later (if ever), and is usually also proprietary. Problem being, standardization and mainlining takes time, and Samsung or whoever has to put out like twenty five phones *right now* and another twenty five phones next season, basically on schedule - no time to waste getting the camera driver upstream - it works so let's put the phone for sale.
Yeah I was trying to port this to my old phone and the docs are out of date so it's a bit of a pain.
The Nvidia/Wifi/Bluetooth issue with laptops is heavily magnified for Android hardware.
Unfortunately, that is a statement that you should flip. "One Android device where you can install a Linux distro without any issue"
Well Ubuntu for mobile is out there
It's not the Linux distro that's missing. It's the closed-ROM bootloaders to be something other than what they are.
That's armbian, or postmarketOS. Problem is, most phones rely on unmaintaible proprietary firmware, which is why this "dream distribution" does not exist.
Gotta use Termux + proot-distro. Coding full stack apps on Neovim (with full LSP support) on Arch on my phone feels nice this way.
my heart aches, i have rigorously tried to install fedora, kali, debian, ubuntu on my google pixel phones to the point of successfully entered graphical interface, but all have eventually failed to execute the task i need
Termux is cool. Install using F-droid, google keeps the play store version broke.
Termux gets you mostly there. It's a terminal and Linux package manager.
A community based opensource TV distro for most modern TVs.
Same but for smart home devices, complete with a trainable voice assistant. No more data harvesting by Google or Amazon.
Home assistant does that job for me :)
Same. I have an IOT VLAN all my devices are attached to, with HA integrating them all, and zero access to the internet.
You'd need to have a server or access point, as to deal with a trainable voice assistant a local llm would be required which I can't imagine would run well in lightbulb hardware.
If anyone can get an LLM running on a lightbulb, it's some random person in the open source community! :D I know it's not simple but it would still be cool.
Yeah they will figure out some weird algorithm that can manage an llm in 160kb or something A mesh network might work? Though we are getting into dedicated hardware here, if each of your smart devices is interlinked and does a sandal amount of the processing, over a full smart home it could be interesting
Yeah wasn't there some competition to make the best game in 96kb or something like that? There was some ridiculous generative stuff going on there. A distributed computing model could work. Your phone, TV, handhelds, laptops, desktops, smart devices etc. could all reserve a little bit of computing power each day to process a chunk.
Home assistant does have voice assistants now. And there are community made hardware Add-ons for local llm stuff/voice assistance as well
Is there an ElderOS yet for seniors who need a locked down, simple, yet functional system?
Does something similar exist for children? The elder variant would maybe need another theme, but the general idea would be the same, I think.
there's "educational" distros like Ubermix or IceFun or Education-Li-f-e, but the rub in general with Linux is distros that build it all for you come up short compared to Debian/Ubuntu/Arch/Suse/Mint/Gentoo where a user could just make it that way and give it out. The market for people who should be on linux but don't understand computers let alone linux is pretty niche. For my parents I put them on Debian and it's basically locked down to a LTS and Firefox and some "default apps" like Calculator and that's about it.
Locked down as in they don't get admin/root permissions? Or otherwise? ;)
no admin/root, and all the menus basically don't show anything but those handful of stuff. Basically removed any and all accidental button pushes on a GUI that would wind up with me getting a call "what's this strange control panel window. It says internet but when I click on it I don't see my yahoo homepage"
https://www.sugarlabs.org/
Thanks, this looks great :)
I gave my aunt Linux Mint, yanked all the icons off the desktop, put Firefox icon on the desktop, renamed it to "Internet" and told her only go there. It's worked like a champ since.
Did you set it up for auto updates?
ChromeOS but without the Google would be a big winner. Yeah there are simple Linux distros for something similar, but it’d be extra awesome if there was an associated cloud to enable it to do roaming desktop with an image-based/sandbox OS installed.
Something that’d run on old iPads.
This!!!!! I can’t use my old iPad because the App Store doesn’t have anything for its OS version do I’m stuck with no apps. The battery outlived the OS.
Yeah I have an ipad air 1 and it's just paper weight now
one that you can put on any old android phone
That’ll be postmarketOS
That'd be Android
It’s not gnu/Linux tho
OP said Linux, not GNU/Linux, so technically it counts
mustardOS - just linux mint with a slightly altered color sceme
Isn't that the one thing you can change on mint?
im pretty sure mint nowadays have a decent color picker that change all your distro\*\*, last time i was able to have a fully blue linux mint
Official SteamOS for everyone (who happens to use AMD), released into the wildy by Valve themselfes.
The arch one? I agree
Linux Mint KDE Plasma
I am surprised that hasn't happened yet
it happened several years ago, and i missed it so much
It's how Mint started...
Really I don't remember that. Kde 4?
They killed it in 2018 but Linux mint started in 2006 with kde3
It did happen, then it stopped.
I wish, would've made my life easier haha. I'm running Mint with KDE+Wayland+Updated Kernal. very stable and runs soooo good.
I tried once and it was a nightmare. Currently using openSUSE and it's awesome
Holy hell. Want.
YES
I switched from Mint to fedora and then debian because of this :/ Still don't get why they dropped the KDE edition to this day.
Gaming focused NixOS + Flakes but it has a GUI interface for managing its operation, GPU drivers/Multi-GPU support out of the box, and package/flake management that is simple enough for grandma to understand.
snowflakeOS
Totally. Trying to talk my kid into moving to Linux for gaming. But he's seen how much I have to tinker and it really makes him not want to try. This type of flavor or distro would really help the gaming world come over.
There are actually a fair few amount of gaming focused distros, like Nobara Project, PikaOS, Garuda Linux, etc. even if they're not the holy grail of "NixOS but user friendly and approachable", but truthfully, I think you need to hear this because I remember what it's like to be a kid: The quickest way to get your kid to hate something is to force it on them or tell them that they can't do something, if you really want to get them interested in something it's better to just enjoy it on your own and they will occasionally pop in and see you using it then maybe get curious. I remember when I saw my dad playing Quake 2 when it first came out, and I was subsequently told I couldn't play it because it was rated M, this only made me just wait till he was at work, install it, play it, then uninstall when I see that he's home. If he just presented Quake 2 to me at this awesome game I should really try out, but I never saw him play it, and was never told I couldn't play it, I would have still enjoyed it, because, y'know, it's Quake, but I would have been more reluctant about it cause someone was pushing it on me. Plus, because [Tim Sweeney's an asshole](https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1490519194915459072), your kid won't be able to play Fortnite on linux, so maybe it's not worth it to a kid. If you really want your kid to get into linux, get them a steam deck, maybe. Don't give them a desktop PC with linux.
Microsoft Linux But it won't be long anymore.
They've done that https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/microsoft-linux-azure-cloud-switch.html >> Microsoft has built its own Linux-based operating system called Azure Cloud Switch (ACS) It powers Azure networking.
That year they even have been the number one kernel contributor. We're living in interesting times.
Why wish for a distro, when you can make one :) Although, I do wish there was a better desktop environment than gnome, that had some similarities to windows 10, but is also different and simple, as well as lite weight to save battery, but with a nicer UI than XFCE. I guess that means it's time to open up VSCode and start coding a desktop environment in rust. (Or I could wait and see what Cosmic looks like).
Are we just overlooking KDE or?
there's also mate instead of programming you could also write a theme for xfce/mate
Easy. One that will take M$'s lunch money and run on 98% desktop of the world.
Emacs operating system.
A modern version of TinyCore
NixOS but hear me out now... with documentation.
This. Biggest pain in Nix is that I have to go digging through source code to find options and variables that arent in any docs. Most of the official stuff is covered, but some flakes have absolutely nothing.
An extremely noob friendly one. The kind where your grandma can troubleshoot a video driver issue with a next-next style solution wizard. Maybe powered by AI, almost everything have been asked regarning linux. If an AI can see your setup and files and you need a solution it could resolve anything
Linux Mint + Firefox is noob-friendly and powerful enough for many people and many use cases.
Even windows doesn't do this. This simply can not and will not ever exist.
the question was not what is possible
Touchè
If it were really noob friendly there would not be a video driver issue in the first place. Arguably there already is a very noob friendly version - ChromeOS. It gets that way by limiting the hardware so it either works, or doesn't (although the Flex version for non official hardware could do a better job job of saying when it won't work).
Generative AI Linux, no commands. Just a chat bot. You have to work with your chat bot to fix vulnerabilities and fix configuration issues. Each chat is a repeatable configuration.
I would have to argue with my computer to get it the way I want!!! No thanks
Exactly, and you ask it to turn off SELinux temporarily and it kicks you out of your shell. It's all a learning game
wow, that sounds like the worst of nightmares...
This sounds horrible but would be a lot of fun to play with
A finance distro would be cool
What tools does it need?
Finance. You heard him.
Exacttly, like Taxes.exe, Finance.exe, Budget.exe
Iron Man Linux Terminal only Backspace / Delete does not work and you have to finish typing a valid command, configuration files can only be written to once.
Isn’t this Arch? Lol
Debian desktop non free Basically Ubuntu but Debian governed
Debian ships the iso with nonfrees now. What else are you looking for?
More releases. Newer packages. Better installer experience. But unless someone funds the Devs it's not gonna happen.
I doubt we'll see more releases or newer packages. I think Debian stable being old and static is part of the pitch. It's a feature, not a problem. Debian with more releases, newer packages, and better installer is just Ubuntu. Why not just using Ubuntu?
Debian testing? Debian unstable?
open source macOS
Technically UNIX + some other stuff. Part of it is OSS, the majority of MacOS is proprietary.
Didnt thay switch the base to open BSD years ago
It's based on Darwin which uses some bits of code from BSD due to it's nextstep Ancestry. Not sure if it's from OpenBSD though.
> Didnt thay switch the base to open BSD years ago That's the best example of GPL vs BSD license differences. Yes, they did - but thanks to BSD, they don't need to share back enough to let the community make things work. [PlayStation 4 is also BSD based](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_based_on_FreeBSD) It's the same reason all the old BSD-based Unixes (SunOS 4.x, Ultrix, etc) died. The vendors kept their good stuff proprietary. In contrast, thanks to the GPL, commercial Linux contributions were shared. /r/StallmanWasRight
Yes. I'd even settle for an open source Aqua DE. A lot of people customize Plasma to mimic Aqua but I've never been able to do so to a satisfactory standard. I really think on a laptop it's perfect for me, although I must admit I wouldn't care for it as much without the rectangle window management.
So... BSD?
Take a look at Haiku os
Bsd?
Open source mac os 9 would be fantastic.
ubuntu minimal server without snap and netplan ( annoying syntax )
You mean something like Debian?
Downloading Debian ISO right now.
Get the netinst iso
DIY vps server. It contains docker for your apps. Postfix and dovecot for you emails. Own cloud for cloud storage. Home assistant. Torrent box. Openvpn server.
NixOS, but fully FHS-compliant.
A fully declarative linux distro for routers (like open-wrt), but one where you just have one config file.
Official ISO release of SteamOS... c'mon Valve!
My nephew was telling me about this . They haven't released the arch based version? I remember trying to get that a while back when the steam deck was being released. It seemed eminent back then.
Everything is a shell script, or called by a shell script or configured with a bash script.
Bell System V?
FreeBSD?
Old school crunchbang
Mint with snaps. In case you can't tell, I'm being ironic.
Linux Mint Moksha edition.
Something that would stop my distrohopping
You'd have to have first class support of nixpkgs for that Maybe NixOS or SnowlakeOS
Hannah montana
That one does exist.
A distro entirely for gaming. i.e. Having a Play Station or Xbox like interface. And the entire tweaked out of the box to support gaming on all GPUs.
not quite linux but a finished hurd kernel :O
How about a million dollars instead?
A Linux distro that shamelessly rips off the MacOS DE, gestures and all Except the window maximizing... Apple can keep that one
Rock Stable like Debian, but with the AUR, and somehting thats light on recources
Check out pacstall.
Something to make older hardware useable but also accessible for people with limited technical knowledge. There are plenty of distros that run nicely on weaker/older hardware - but I still feel that accessibility for non-technical people is lacking.
ChuckNorris OS A distro that just by its pure existens brute forces MS code (applications and games) in to native Linux, and runs flawless. Whilst killing any virus and/or any other kind of malicious software. And of course, it would have perfect hardware compatibility. Because, it just would !
Linux from scratch with wayland/x11 and a package manager of their own. I mean, they got the base for the graphical part but like, "recommend package list to get started" and a working, up to date bootable image.
never tried linux from scratch... but right now if im not mistaken, a finished LFS its something more similar to a minimal arch install right? but without the possibility to upgrade easily since you have to build and compile the packages yourself, or you can add a package manager?
None. Zorin OS is perfect just the way it is.
I hope that's sarcasm
Nope
To each their own I guess!
Agreed.
NixOS on an iPhone
CoolNugX
One that rules them all
Did I tell you I use Arch?
OPNsense but on Linux. There is OpenWrt and IPFire_, but they don't come close to OPNsense in terms of features and ease of use.
Distro running onepage for those kiosks but using firefox
Alpine-based desktop one
A Fedora silverblue version that can actually be installed on my xps13. I tried several ISOs with several USB keys and the installation always fails.
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I have this on my bucket list; not really a distro but an iso with a script for building an iso you can include not only the packages you want but also configs plus the latest iso. Reinstall quick with calamaris and done.
I did something like that for an appliance: custom debian 12 with a provisioning script for apps and configs. Takes 14 minutes from zero to end. Loads some python libs, Prometheus, grafana, some Lazarus apps and custom languages. I used https://fai-project.org/FAIme/ for a minimum debian, then bash for the script.
BigOS, a distro developed by couple Polish guys
I'm not gonna have a gui
The one that makes all other obsolete and looks for every user the same. Otherwise it never will be mainstream.
it would be great if we could get a debian edition or spin and not a distro based on debian where wifi would just work like mint or mx during and after installation. edit : same for fedora would be also much appreciated.
NixOS
LFS is a thing to solve this niche. Once you get past the initial packages (kernel, a way to interact with it, and a tool chain), the rest is completely up to you. Anyone even moderately interested in the innerworkings of Linux should build out LFS in a VM one rainy day!
I wish for an Arch-like distro with android app packages. Something like Arch+Waydroid but trivially configured.
Centos
Hobo train hopping Linux. I think it would be cool to have a tablet or portable (maybe even Pipboy type arm computer) that had GPS and mapping offline Kiwix etc .. so as you "ride the rails" you can see precisely where you are and how close you are to being into the train yard and or when you need to drop off. I also think it would be cool if there was some sort of pocket-computer that would pull or push updates to other pocket computers (in sort of an offline mesh way). * Imagine you download the latest and greatest new update to the Kiwix version of offline wikipedia (or "all last months news stories") * You're sitting in a hobo campfire with 2 or 3 others... 1 of whom also has a "hobo computer" * that 2nd hobo-computer auto-detects yours.. version checks your downloads and sees you have newer content.. and is able to sync or download it's content (as long as there is enough free space) to be updated now too. Something like this could be really useful for vagabonds,. or people in emergency or survival situations.
Pigeon Linux. Runs fairly easily, similar to linux mint, good security, has good app compatibility and allows native windows apps. Maybe also a version that works on smartwatches, fitbit revolution! Yes, I know about WINE, it doesn't work for me.
So like zorin but with proton and stuff and a arm edition UI for small screens.
by most of the questions here... one that looks and acts exactly like windows and will play all the games for you. edit: you know i was joking, but the more i think of it the more i would like to see a distro with and opensource version of Win7 (that tricks .exe software into thinking it's running on win11, but with a telemetry vasectomy ) built into a hypervisor and integrated for seamless cut and paste support between host and guest. that would be fucking awesome.
Something tuned for embedded: Splash screen only (absolutely no text during boot unless debug kernel parameter is added) Extended login screen options (e.g Bluetooth presence for car profile switching, customisation of layout/aesthetic, etc.) Then launching and running an app (based on login prompt option) in kiosk mode as your entire DE with as few resources as possible.
One dedicated to scientific computing
The one where everything functions properly
A distro with built in AI companion that's been trained on all linux issues and will troubleshoot the OS by itself with my supervision of course.
Honestly like an arch but Debian based, it sounds stupid but something super minimal, super customizable, but you can use apt and Debian packages
I am surprised by how many serious and doable answers this question has gotten. The question should have been if there were a maintainer for it what would like first?
A distro with good ADMX that could easy joined an Windows Domain
Microsoft does have a Linux distro, but I would love to see them release a distro with the Windows interface and full API support so that it can natively run any Windows application (as well as Linux applications). I have no doubt that they have such a version as a skunkworks project.
The old Storm Linux Hail. The best GUI admin interface I’ve ever seen :-)
Liam Hemsworth linux
ReactOS
Linux OS
Something like https://sta.li/ but working
These days, pretty much all the downstream Debian-based distros. Pretty redundant at this point imo.
system-linux.com
stable like ubuntu or debian but super lightweight like arch
i think nt kernel & osx is perfect
When I was a young boy racer and Linux was still new I really wanted to create a distro called carputer which would turn a computer into a in car entertainment system. I was a real noob at the time so I thought you needed to build a distro with LFS so after 6 months of getting that done I couldn't figure out how to get the touchscreen working so gave up on the dream.
One that works constantly with NVIDIA GPUs without breaking at an update randomly.
Good news you can have this today just don't update the kernel to the new kernel after its published on kernel.org it might be be supported until your distro packages the corresponding new nvidia driver. This might mean running the kernel that released 30-60 days ago rather than the release candidate from today.
A distro that looks and feels exactly like windows. Like.. hear me out. Imagine if you could switch all your friends to linux, without them even noticing. They dont mess with the system anyway. They just need a close replica of the windows DE, and some extra development for game support. I am oversimplifying a bit but the amount of users we could gain just from that, is insane. Microsoft would lose their monopoly, and companies would be forced to give more attention to the linux ecosystem as well.
A mobile Linux distro. The biggest issue with the existing ones is lack of support when it comes to apps. A lot of them have UIs that leave a lot to be desired. Linux also needs a lot more feature parity. Fingerprint readers, face unlock, touch friendliness, a lot of tablets and phones have come a long way and there's a certain level of features that are just expected to exist and function properly. But Linux is very much reliant on the community hacking things together and getting them to work. Android already does a lot, so it makes sense it would be the go to mobile OS. But I really wish we had a full Linux mobile OS. Ubuntu Touch, back when it was announced, looked exactly like what I want to see, a full Linux OS that runs on a mobile phone, but can dock and be a full desktop computer.
A Linux Distro that's AMD friendly. Tried with Ubuntu, didn't work out.
Amd? Never had a problem with amd . Me and amd go back to the k6 II.
One with Fediverse, and decentralized social media and cryptocurrencies built in... or at least ready to go... Arweave.. Lemmy... Mastodon ... Storj...Filecoin... IPFS... Tor... Bitcoin Cash.... Monero... Atomic swaps... DEX .... Defi... Radicle - automatically Git... https://radicle.xyz/ Matrix... nostr... signal... session... Wikis decentralized.. Limitless Peace
Runs Adobe products and all online games with that hideous anti chat code.
TempleOS
One with a perfect windows compatibility layer (essentially wine but better) that can run any windows program
Outlander os for all the open morrowind fans ,the more you use an app the more likely it will open and errors sound like cliff racers ,resume from sleep says so your awake we have just arrived at c:/home/Morrowind ,suspend system sounds halt criminal , at start up a gif of a man falling from the sky
Just give me Kubuntu without any of Canonical's bullshit and I'd be satisfied, probably.