So which distro do you recommend to use? I really hope you’re not suggesting they should roll their own. How likely is it that they go from not-supported to we-roll-our-own-distro? We could be very happy if they release it like starts-up-on-our-machine-please-support-yourself.
I want to add my support for TD on Linux, windows is just getting worse for everyday we speak
Given Windows’ declining reliability in production (if it was ever reliable), setting up dedicated, bespoke (only the features needed) Linux boxes for installations is now more critical than ever.
Windows increasingly feels like ad-heavy, privacy-invasive bloat, with significant resources tied up in features most users don’t need.
I am aware of honourable projects (like AtlasOS) that try to mitigate the problem of Win bloatware, but it feels like slapping lipstick on a pig.
Furthermore, native Linux support would open the door to a great ecosystem of hardware (Nvidia Jetson, Rasperry Pi, Oculus Quest even?)
It would be great to hear from Derivative what’s their current take on this.
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It’s actually not that hard to spin your own distro based on an existing one, using systems like the Universal Blue tooling @r-ssek was talking about and Nix (Bazzite is a good example of this - its a Fedora-based distro with some additional tools included that is built using Universal Blue). But that should be able to wait until later - once they have support for one distro down, TD should work just about anywhere*, including a custom distro or a custom build of another atomic distro.
*With the introduction of Wayland, this got a little more complicated, since some distros would use X11 and some would use Walyand. At this point though, the majority of distros have switched to Wayland, so you really only need to implement support for Wayland. Also just about every major distro uses a different package format (Red-Hat/Fedora and derivatives use RPM, Debian and derivatives use DEB, etc), but the binaries are the same between them, so TD would only need to release one “universal” binary per supported processor architecture (you might have seen these before - they’re usually distributed in .tar.gz archives), and then the community could handle packaging for each distribution (this is a common way that closed-source linux apps get packaged - open-source ones are similar, but with the key difference that they are usually built from source at packaging time).
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Giving my support for Linux too. Windows is taking steps in the wrong direction imho. Like others, this is the only software in my box that *needs* windows. Cheers
+1 for TD for Linux. We´d love to automatically build toxes etc. in our CI/CD pipelines. And we´ve encountered the first organizations that would not deploy windows machines in their IT-park anymore. We would love to hear that this topic gets looked at 
cheers!
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Coming back here after 4 years to say again +1 to this. Would love to hear back from Derivative on how they stand on supporting Linux.
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It would be interesting to get an outside estimate for the number of support hours people would need to buy if they wanted Derivative to work on this.
I assume it would be a very large number but, if I had a crowdsourcing site I could go drop a couple dollars into whenever I idly daydreamed about my totally awesome Linux toolchain and pipeline, I’d probably have enough for at least a couple hours in there by now.
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Started learning TD a couple of weeks ago and … OMG it blew my mind !
I use linux at work all the time and for some reason i just assumed tat TD would also be able to run on linux but via this post I just found out that it does not 
I cant even imagine that anyone would have the courage to set up a system that needs to be up 24/7 running a windows OS … that just does not compute
Like i said i have been using all sorts of linux distro’s for 20+ years and in terms of stability and reliability they are in a different league (or more like different universe) than windows
I guess a MAC mini would be the next best thing but that is expensive and also limits the options you have in terms of customisation.
I would LOVE to see TD run on linux, so that’s a big +1 for me
Just giving this more visibility.
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Thanks man ! 
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