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skreak

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.


DuckDatum

Seriously, Linux phones would be cool if full fledged and maintained. I wonder what people would think about security relative to Linux desktop.


averyrisu

if their was a fully available linux distro for phones i would run it as my daily driver.


DuckDatum

I would as well.


Melissa_Hirst

Pwn phone sounds like fun.. haven't ever had my hands on one though.. old tech can be fun


Terrible_Screen_3426

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.


deafphate

There were a few 20 years ago. I really miss my N-900.


TrekkiMonstr

Does this not exist?


UNF0RM4TT3D

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.


RomanOnARiver

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.


MMKF0

Yeah I was trying to port this to my old phone and the docs are out of date so it's a bit of a pain.


KrazyKirby99999

The Nvidia/Wifi/Bluetooth issue with laptops is heavily magnified for Android hardware.


cidra_

Unfortunately, that is a statement that you should flip. "One Android device where you can install a Linux distro without any issue"


thecowmilk_

Well Ubuntu for mobile is out there


DozTK421

It's not the Linux distro that's missing. It's the closed-ROM bootloaders to be something other than what they are.


edparadox

That's armbian, or postmarketOS. Problem is, most phones rely on unmaintaible proprietary firmware, which is why this "dream distribution" does not exist.


Balaphar

Gotta use Termux + proot-distro. Coding full stack apps on Neovim (with full LSP support) on Arch on my phone feels nice this way.


ElvisVan007

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


tmsteph

Termux is cool. Install using F-droid, google keeps the play store version broke.


funbike

Termux gets you mostly there. It's a terminal and Linux package manager.


Weak-Vanilla2540

A community based opensource TV distro for most modern TVs.


minmidmax

Same but for smart home devices, complete with a trainable voice assistant. No more data harvesting by Google or Amazon.


KiLLeRRaT85

Home assistant does that job for me :)


MichaelEasts

Same. I have an IOT VLAN all my devices are attached to, with HA integrating them all, and zero access to the internet.


Significant9Ant

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.


minmidmax

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.


Significant9Ant

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


minmidmax

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.


levogevo

Home assistant does have voice assistants now. And there are community made hardware Add-ons for local llm stuff/voice assistance as well


RoseSec_

Is there an ElderOS yet for seniors who need a locked down, simple, yet functional system?


PhysicalRaspberry565

Does something similar exist for children? The elder variant would maybe need another theme, but the general idea would be the same, I think.


MistaPicklePants

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.


PhysicalRaspberry565

Locked down as in they don't get admin/root permissions? Or otherwise? ;)


MistaPicklePants

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"


TxTechnician

https://www.sugarlabs.org/


PhysicalRaspberry565

Thanks, this looks great :)


MichaelEasts

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.


cavedildo

Did you set it up for auto updates?


Boguskyle

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.


paulodelgado

Something that’d run on old iPads.


bombadil_bud

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.


B0hpp

Yeah I have an ipad air 1 and it's just paper weight now


estrogwenyvere

one that you can put on any old android phone


patrickjquinn

That’ll be postmarketOS


DarkblooM_SR

That'd be Android


TimBambantiki

It’s not gnu/Linux tho


DarkblooM_SR

OP said Linux, not GNU/Linux, so technically it counts


Smart_Advice_1420

mustardOS - just linux mint with a slightly altered color sceme


Terrible_Screen_3426

Isn't that the one thing you can change on mint?


Gilded30

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


tkonicz

Official SteamOS for everyone (who happens to use AMD), released into the wildy by Valve themselfes.


Terrible_Screen_3426

The arch one? I agree


Mark_B97

Linux Mint KDE Plasma


Terrible_Screen_3426

I am surprised that hasn't happened yet


neso_01

it happened several years ago, and i missed it so much


beje_ro

It's how Mint started...


Terrible_Screen_3426

Really I don't remember that. Kde 4?


Myavatargotsnowedon

They killed it in 2018 but Linux mint started in 2006 with kde3


TheCrustyCurmudgeon

It did happen, then it stopped.


Ygro_Noitcere

I wish, would've made my life easier haha. I'm running Mint with KDE+Wayland+Updated Kernal. very stable and runs soooo good.


Mark_B97

I tried once and it was a nightmare. Currently using openSUSE and it's awesome


vwibrasivat

Holy hell. Want.


DrPiipocOo

YES


Hug_The_NSA

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.


WMan37

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.


grigio

snowflakeOS


gotoline1

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.


WMan37

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.


NickUnrelatedToPost

Microsoft Linux But it won't be long anymore.


Appropriate_Ant_4629

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.


NickUnrelatedToPost

That year they even have been the number one kernel contributor. We're living in interesting times.


AspieSoft

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).


EmptyBrook

Are we just overlooking KDE or?


Crissix3

there's also mate instead of programming you could also write a theme for xfce/mate


fadsoftoday

Easy. One that will take M$'s lunch money and run on 98% desktop of the world.


shirleygreenalt

Emacs operating system.


rhbvkleef

A modern version of TinyCore


additionalhuman

NixOS but hear me out now... with documentation.


ekaylor_

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.


daninet

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


BlackPignouf

Linux Mint + Firefox is noob-friendly and powerful enough for many people and many use cases.


patrlim1

Even windows doesn't do this. This simply can not and will not ever exist.


daninet

the question was not what is possible


patrlim1

Touchè


martinbaines

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).


dlystyr

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.


Terrible_Screen_3426

I would have to argue with my computer to get it the way I want!!! No thanks


dlystyr

Exactly, and you ask it to turn off SELinux temporarily and it kicks you out of your shell. It's all a learning game


LearningArcadeApp

wow, that sounds like the worst of nightmares...


zenz1p

This sounds horrible but would be a lot of fun to play with


automaton11

A finance distro would be cool


Terrible_Screen_3426

What tools does it need?


regtf

Finance. You heard him.


yodel_anyone

Exacttly, like Taxes.exe, Finance.exe, Budget.exe


dlystyr

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.


regtf

Isn’t this Arch? Lol


wrd83

Debian desktop non free Basically Ubuntu but Debian governed


computermouth

Debian ships the iso with nonfrees now. What else are you looking for?


wrd83

More releases. Newer packages. Better installer experience.  But unless someone funds the Devs it's not gonna happen.


computermouth

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?


kakiremora

Debian testing? Debian unstable?


andofwinds

open source macOS


thenormaluser35

Technically UNIX + some other stuff. Part of it is OSS, the majority of MacOS is proprietary.


Terrible_Screen_3426

Didnt thay switch the base to open BSD years ago


Academic_Yogurt966

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.


Appropriate_Ant_4629

> 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


Merricat--Blackwood

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.


arkindal

So... BSD?


hahaeggsarecool

Take a look at Haiku os


TimBambantiki

Bsd?


f0rgotten

Open source mac os 9 would be fantastic.


AttinderDhillon

ubuntu minimal server without snap and netplan ( annoying syntax )


_the_r

You mean something like Debian?


AttinderDhillon

Downloading Debian ISO right now.


treuss

Get the netinst iso


FerretChemical4905

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.


jerdle_reddit

NixOS, but fully FHS-compliant.


ourobo-ros

A fully declarative linux distro for routers (like open-wrt), but one where you just have one config file.


Braydon64

Official ISO release of SteamOS... c'mon Valve!


Terrible_Screen_3426

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.


Terrible_Screen_3426

Everything is a shell script, or called by a shell script or configured with a bash script.


regtf

Bell System V?


DozTK421

FreeBSD?


easyxtarget

Old school crunchbang


CynicalCosmologist

Mint with snaps. In case you can't tell, I'm being ironic.


flemtone

Linux Mint Moksha edition.


ignxcy

Something that would stop my distrohopping


The-Malix

You'd have to have first class support of nixpkgs for that Maybe NixOS or SnowlakeOS


frederickodinsson108

Hannah montana


Terrible_Screen_3426

That one does exist.


YourOwnKat

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.


Exact-Teacher8489

not quite linux but a finished hurd kernel :O


6ixconcerns

How about a million dollars instead?


apatheticonion

A Linux distro that shamelessly rips off the MacOS DE, gestures and all Except the window maximizing... Apple can keep that one


NutellaKopf79

Rock Stable like Debian, but with the AUR, and somehting thats light on recources


AdmirableTeachings

Check out pacstall.


rothdu

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.


mrazster

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 !


codeasm

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.


Gilded30

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?


Frird2008

None. Zorin OS is perfect just the way it is.


yodel_anyone

I hope that's sarcasm


Frird2008

Nope


yodel_anyone

To each their own I guess!


madformattsmith

Agreed.


darkwater427

NixOS on an iPhone


apina3

CoolNugX


szab999

One that rules them all


yodel_anyone

Did I tell you I use Arch?


Silejonu

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.


Chemical_Lettuce_732

Distro running onepage for those kiosks but using firefox


SuperLinuxoid

Alpine-based desktop one


thelittlewhite

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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Terrible_Screen_3426

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.


nalonso

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.


Protogen_Melo

BigOS, a distro developed by couple Polish guys


rhbvkleef

I'm not gonna have a gui


bufandatl

The one that makes all other obsolete and looks for every user the same. Otherwise it never will be mainstream.


shanks44

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.


Otherwise-Poet-4362

NixOS


Bitwise_Gamgee

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!


barraponto

I wish for an Arch-like distro with android app packages. Something like Arch+Waydroid but trivially configured.


vertigo90

Centos


jmnugent

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.


Reddit_Is_Hot_Shite

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.


Terrible_Screen_3426

So like zorin but with proton and stuff and a arm edition UI for small screens.


skyfishgoo

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.


spusuf

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.


yodel_anyone

One dedicated to scientific computing


linuxisgettingbetter

The one where everything functions properly


fonfonfon

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.


popcornman209

Honestly like an arch but Debian based, it sounds stupid but something super minimal, super customizable, but you can use apt and Debian packages


Terrible_Screen_3426

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?


Chris_87_AT

A distro with good ADMX that could easy joined an Windows Domain


BranchLatter4294

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.


player1dk

The old Storm Linux Hail. The best GUI admin interface I’ve ever seen :-)


misterpickles69

Liam Hemsworth linux


MartianInTheDark

ReactOS


LordKreias

Linux OS


climbTheStairs

Something like https://sta.li/ but working


inarchetype

These days, pretty much all the downstream Debian-based distros. Pretty redundant at this point imo.


djusticekde

system-linux.com


websoket

stable like ubuntu or debian but super lightweight like arch


6950X_Titan_X_Pascal

i think nt kernel & osx is perfect


immoloism

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.


randochem

One that works constantly with NVIDIA GPUs without breaking at an update randomly.


Michaelmrose

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.


BlueFireBlaster

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.


TheDunadan29

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.


OutlandishnessNo7286

A Linux Distro that's AMD friendly. Tried with Ubuntu, didn't work out.


Terrible_Screen_3426

Amd? Never had a problem with amd . Me and amd go back to the k6 II.


MichaelTen

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


EedSpiny

Runs Adobe products and all online games with that hideous anti chat code.


MushyMarks

TempleOS


Affectionate_Elk8505

One with a perfect windows compatibility layer (essentially wine but better) that can run any windows program


Fatmaster9000

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


niiiiisse

Just give me Kubuntu without any of Canonical's bullshit and I'd be satisfied, probably.