[-] floppyslapper@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I don't mind adding forks to the list, or distros based on other distros, as long as the distro they're based on is a community distro and not a corporate distro. Like you point out though, there aren't a lot of those.

[-] floppyslapper@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I used to use Mandrake back in the day. Those Mandrake descendants, as long as they're actively being maintained, could be interesting.

[-] floppyslapper@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

The issue isn't if something is a fork or not, the issue is if something is a fork of a corporate distro. For instance, there are forks of Arch that still meet the criteria because Arch is a base community distro, whereas OpenSuse is a fork of a corporate distro.

[-] floppyslapper@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

The problem with OpenSuse is it's based on a corporate product, not an original community base.

[-] floppyslapper@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

But how many of those meet the criteria of not being based on corporate distros and are also user friendly? For instance, I wouldn't exactly classify Gentoo as user friendly.

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Since Red Hat made their recent decision, there has been a lot more talk about people wanting to focus on communiy-based distros instead of corporate-backed distros.

I was trying to think of how many active, stable, user friendly base community distros I know about. When I say a "base" distro, I mean a distro that's basically the base for its ecosystem. For instance, Debian would be a base distro because it's the base of its ecosystem. A community distro based on Ubuntu wouldn't fit what I'm talking about here because Ubuntu is a corporate distro.

So, there's Debian.

Arch is a base community distro but it's not user friendly to install, but there are more user friendly varieties of Arch available like Manjaro and a few others.

All of the other base distros I can think of are either corporate, or aren't particularly user friendly to install. Care to add your thoughts to the list?

[-] floppyslapper@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Musk is a moron that's about as smart as any moron that's a moron that's been given vast sums for cash from their father's African emerald mine.

[-] floppyslapper@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

No, the game I'm thinking of isn't an action game, it's an adventure game similar to Myst where you navigate by moving from room to room.

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There's a game I'm trying to remember the name of.

It came out for DOS, or possibly Windows 95. It was a first-person adventure game in the style of Myst, probably trying to capitalize off of Myst's popularity.

It was a sci-fi game where you played a drone exploring either a derelict spacecraft or space station.

I seem to remember the predominant colors being green and black, such as a green title on a black background.

When the game came out it received a fair amount of attention in the gaming magazines and was available at all the game stores.

Can anyone remember the name of this game?

[-] floppyslapper@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I'll be honest. WarGames. I'm a big fan of 80s movies, but when I saw WarGames, it was very much meh.

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