A really neat graphic I randomly stumbled across on Wikipedia.

No idea if this is accurate but it's fascinating to see all these distros laid out this way.

Seems to live here now: https://github.com/FabioLolix/LinuxTimeline/tree/main

Where do you live in this family tree?

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    I installed Slackware in 1994 or so. Floppy. Disks.

    Fast forward almost 30 years and I'm still trying new (to me) distros. Proxmox VE this time.

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      Proxmox isn't a "distro" as most would colloquially think of one. It's a hypervisor.

      Am I taking crazy pills?

      Do you mean you are using it to use your setup in a VM or container?

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        Proxmox VE is a packaging of Linux as an operating system. It is a distribution. Straight from the wikipedia page:

        It is a Debian-based Linux distribution with a modified Ubuntu LTS kernel[7] and allows deployment and management of virtual machines and containers.[8][9]

        Cool way to respond to a comment btw:

        Am I taking crazy pills?

        The VMs I'm running in Proxmox are also Linux, but that's less interesting to me.

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          I gotcha. I meant no offense. I was halfway hoping you'd tell me there was a spin of proxmox that was meant for desktop use that containerized everything or something.

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            It's Debian-based so can install all the same desktop and window environments available there.