postmarketOS. Way too underrated.
dyne:bolic - specifically 1.4.1
Had support for the original Xbox, a multimedia editing / streaming focussed OS. I’d never run it on mine - just messed with xdsl before going back to XBMC.
Yellow Dog
I actually ran this on a PPC Mac back in the day
That was the my first distro. Getting it to run off a FireWire drive was an interesting introduction to Linux.
Fun fact: yum stands for Yellow dog Update Manager. I know it’s been replaced by dnf but I still think that’s cool.
Someone gave me a PowerMac and of course I had to try to run Linux. It was an interesting experience, it would boot to MacOS and then run the Yellow Dog bootloader. Couldn’t get it to boot directly. That little experiment showed me how tightly Apple controlled what would run on Apple machines back then.
Not obscure but I love hyprland
Also not a distro.
Suicide linux. Nobody can run it for more than a day
Edit: i just searched “suicide linux” to see if it still exists and one of the top results was ian murdock’s wiki page, :(
“suicide linux”
Looked it up with quotes and the first update in the first search result:
Update 2011-12-26
Someone has turned Suicide Linux into a genuine Debian package. Good show!
:(
Windows 11
One of the coolest distros, ever. It’s like a mix of Alpine Linux and Slackware without dangerous firmware payloads.
Hot Dog Linux, X11 Window Manager with Windows 3.1 Hot Dog Stand, Amiga Workbench, Atari ST GEM, Mac Classic and Aqua UI
Not really a Linux distro, but TempleOS
Check out the random button on Distrowatch (distrowatch.com/random.php) - it’s like a Linux lottery, but you always win something weird!
Gentoo. Not that bad for a random pick.
Let’s make this a game. Click on it, then you have to install that on bare metal and daily it for a month.
I got archcraft.
Lucky me. It’s also from India which is fun.
https://distrowatch.com/table-mobile.php?distribution=archcraft
Got RISC OS
mom, I’m scared
Rockstor here. Which is interesting bc I’ve been thinking about setting up another NAS.
Oh god, I got Murena (LineageOS distro). How does one install that onto a ThinkPad T480…
What are you currently using?
On that ThinkPad, LMDE.
Ha I got tuxedo OS, hopefully thats not too niche
That’s what I’ve been running on my gaming machine and it’s been great.
I got portuex, never used Slackware but seems serviceable, I’m just scared of nVidia driver setup haha
I got Plamo Linux
Got PakOS, but since I’m not Pakistani I’m not sure how useful it would be
I got Linux Lite, which I’ve tried in the past.
This distro’s default background isn’t a knockoff of any particular popular non-*nix proprietary operating system’s default background:
I’m gonna go with Tom’s Root Boot. Or maybe the father of all live distros, Knoppix.
Didn’t think Knoppix was obscure, but that was my gateway to Linux first on all my personal PCs.
I guess the years have passed it by.
Rebecca Black OS.
It is the only Linux distro to date built around Weston, using Wayland’s full capability:
It doesn’t include any Rebecca Black theming. It’s just called that cause the dev is a fan of hers.
From the name, I expected a Hannah Montana Linux type distro.
I’m pretty sure that screenshot is Wayfire, not Weston.
right. This is Weston (same distro):
Tell me if has a special “Friday” desktop at least.
Jolicloud. I ran it on an old low-spec netbook in 2013ish, basically a ChromeOS before Chromebooks were a thing. It was discontinued in 2016 but great for the hardware while it lasted.
I created a distro once for class that just had diaspora installed on a live CD. It was only used for demos a looong time ago. DiasporaTest.
Sabayon Linux
I used it for a few years, great distro. I think it’s dead now.
also Funtoo Linux, but i never really used it
