#slackware

Arch: Surprisingly easy, not for beginners.

Alpine: Known for the Copypasta

Bazzite: Fedora for Gamers.

Debian: This will survive the Apocalypse

Deepin: Hello Chairman Xi!

ElementaryOS: Linux for Recovering Mac Users.

EndeavourOS: Arch with Graphical Install.

Fedora: Boring, but Torvalds uses this.

Gentoo: Touch Grass while you compile.

Linux Mint: Linux for everyone! Very good!

Manjaro: Endeavour but somehow worse.

NixOS: "Please ignore our Military links".

Nobara: Fedora for Gamers and content creators.

OpenSUSE: Fedora, aber deutsch.

Pop!_OS: Linux for Tech Bros.

Puppy Linux: I can Revive old hardware.

Slackware: "I was there Gandalf."

Tails: Linux for the Paranoid.

Trisquel: Hi Richard Stallman you nonce!

Ubuntu: "What happened to you, man?"

Void: Installed on a Wii, once!

Zorin: Linux for former Windows Fanboys.

Your desk has stopped being a desk. It’s a cockpit now — a patchwork command deck built from scripts, dongles, and hardware hacks. Forget minimalism. This is maximal utility, welded into style.

The Knob Every cockpit needs a control dial, and nothing beats a physical rotary knob for volume. Twist left and the noise dies. Twist right and the walls shake. It’s tactile, primal, and feels like it belongs on a submarine console. Forget virtual sliders — the knob is king.

The Pause Bar Sitting top-right of the screen is a tiny black strip of buttons: pause, play, stop, next, previous. No title bar, no borders, no fluff. A resurrection of the media keys your 90s keyboard never had. Always visible, always on top, it gives you total control over sound with one click.

The Signal Ticker RSS feeds crawl across your desktop like a pirate radio transmission. News, notes, or fragments of lore — whatever you drop into the list rolls by in real time. It’s half stock ticker, half underground broadcast. A constant reminder that information is the bloodstream of the cockpit... and The Internet.

The LED Truth Dongle Sometimes hardware reveals its secrets by accident. A humble USB media controller flashes its LED when the internet drops. Suddenly, a simple forward/back button becomes a network status monitor. When your cockpit blinks at you, you know the connection is gone before the OS even notices.

The Ghost Net Pulse Software complements hardware with a tiny widget that glows green when the internet is alive and red when it isn’t. Always on top, always visible, it’s the heart monitor of your connection. One glance tells you if the outside world is still there — or if you’ve been cut off.

The Scratchpad Ghost Imagine a frameless text box hovering on your screen. Anything you type into it is instantly saved to a plain .txt file. It’s perfect for fragments of thought, half-formed ideas, or quick notes. Point it at a synced folder and it becomes cloud-ready too. Unlike sticky notes, it’s pure text — editable, searchable, and eternal. Bonus points of you create a local html file which is designed to load and search such files then display keyword matches on a page.

Hardware Additions: The Cockpit Meatspace Rig

The Knob → As mentioned, the physical volume dial. Simple, fast, irreplaceable.

The Dongle → Forward/back media control, with LEDs that double as connection status indicators.

The Big Red NOPE → A hardware killswitch for your cat5/6 cable. One satisfying slap and you’re offline. It looks like a missile silo abort button and feels just as final.

Mis primeros pasos en 𝑳𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒙 fueron con una 486DX, 𝐒𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 2.1 𝐲 𝐃𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐚𝐧 0.91 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐚, leyendo manuales y manuales desde el set “𝖫𝗂𝗇𝗎𝗑 𝖣𝖾𝗏𝖾𝗅𝗈𝗉𝖾𝗋’𝗌 𝖱𝖾𝗌𝗈𝗎𝗋𝖼𝖾 𝖢𝖣-𝖱𝖮𝖬” de 𝑰𝒏𝒇𝒐𝑴𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒄 de 1995.

No era instalar y listo: era aprender particiones, kernels, módulos, X11, comandos y paciencia.

Ahí entendí que 𝑳𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒙 no era solo un sistema operativo: era una invitación a comprender la computadora desde adentro.