I have a 1TB harddrive on my desktop computer that isn’t doing much of anything, so I’d like to dual-boot something “interesting”. Suggestions are greatly appreciated, so let me know what y’all find intriguing/interesting/frustrating/innovative.

The logo is just for attention, but EFF is a great cause that we should all support.

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something interesting you say. source mage linux. https://sourcemage.org/ its more up to date than it seems. look at the repo.

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That’s interesting to the point of bizarre. Thank you!

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It’s really hard to go wrong with Debian.

That’s my safe answer.

If you share more about your interests, hobbies, I might have other ideas.

I suppose, when in doubt, there’s always Linux From Scratch. It’s a very interesting experience.

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Except Debian is neither interesting nor innovative.

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Debian is the Volvo of Linux distros.

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It’s very premise is the polar opposite of interesting or innovative. It’s pretty much the white bread of Linux: incredibly bland, but will fit into everything that requires bread.

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Except Debian is neither interesting nor innovative.

How dare you!? /s

Yeah. Good point.

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I have another drive with Mint installed that I used as my daily do-things OS. For this, I’d like to devote a separate 1TB drive to something weird or interesting.

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Void, stable, fast, not a fork, also is using runit

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Now that’s an engaging option. Thank you!

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Qubes - an OS that compartmentalizes system functions (including userspace) into separate VMs, with the intent of keeping them secure from each other. Kind of an internal zero-trust approach. Complicated to use.

Alpine Linux - stripped down to create a reduced attack surface, with the intent to provide only packages which have been vetted for security. Fairly straightforward.

Redox OS - a Unix-like OS written in Rust (not actually Linux). Limited, still kind of a prototype.

Damn Small Linux has been revived with a new version recently, which is nice to see.

HoloISO - a community built reimplementation of the Steam Deck OS.

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If you’re looking for interesting more than useful, may I present TempleOS.

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. . . could you possibly unpresent it? I kid, I kid–this looks insane and I love it. Thank you!

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If you have never heard of it before, I recommend checking out the wikipedia page for it, and some of the information available about its creator.

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Wow, thanks! What an interesting read :O (But also really sad to watch the video on the templeos site)

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