• Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
        8·
        5 days ago

        There are a few gaps. Seems it’s not being as diligently updated as once was.

        There are even some old distros I failed to find on it.

        … Didn’t there used to be a text-searchable svg version of it?

        • tyler@programming.dev
          2·
          5 days ago

          Idk. I was making a joke though. A history of Linux chart is functionally useless for actually choosing a distro.

          • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
            3·
            5 days ago

            A history of Linux chart is functionally useless for actually choosing a distro.

            I’ve used that many times to help me go distro surfing. Very handy for discovery.

            • tyler@programming.dev
              1·
              5 days ago

              For a new person it’s useless. For anyone distro surfing why wouldn’t you just use distro Watch?

              • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
                1·
                4 days ago

                For a new person it’s useless. For anyone distro surfing why wouldn’t you just use distro Watch?

                I disagree. Not useless. Shows the lineage of distros. Facilitates broader awareness. Handy education. Very well accompanies the likes of distrowatch, at a long glance showing the forest past being lost in the trees and slowly trying to work it out. Expedites the new (or soon to be) user to better know their way around, and perhaps help them go towards whichever branch they prefer or away from any they garner a dislike for, saving time. See past the whataboutism false-dichotomy? Why not both?

                • tyler@programming.dev
                  1·
                  4 days ago

                  Huh? A new user is going to have trouble understanding the base difference between gnome and kde. Flooding them with information about the history of all these operating systems will do nothing except to scare them off even more.

                  • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
                    1·
                    4 days ago

                    You have experience of people being scared off? [Or mere hypothesis?]

                    I have experience of people being helped.

                    I wonder what’s the extra nuance and criteria that decides which way that bifurcates.

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        If you know how to edit a comma-separated-value text file and how to submit a PR on GitHub, you could make the image larger.

        • tyler@programming.dev
          11·
          5 days ago

          I just have to assume you’re a troll at this point. That graphic is not helpful at all to anyone except those that care about the history of Linux. For everyone else it’s useless. I was making a joke about how one of the distros I use isn’t on there. I don’t know the history of my distro and honestly do not care. Any noob also would not care.