There Are Two Linuxes. You Only Know One.

00:00 - The mainstream and what lies beyond it 01:50 - Devuan: Debian without the compromise 04:50 - OpenMandriva: from Mandrake to Clang 09:56 - Artix: The True Arch 14:17 - The deeper underground: Void, Alpine, Gentoo and others 14:41 - Conclusion Mr. Perfection, I know MX Linux is not part of the mainstream, but of the opposite side, and I also know that copyleft was not invented in 1984, and I also know that we are in 2026. Perfection is the worst of flaws. Quote myself. Linux has a mainstream. Debian, Arch, Ubuntu, Fedora — distributions that move together, share the same technical and political direction, and generate most of the noise. Wayland, Rust, systemd. One trajectory, one voice. But there is another Linux. Quieter, older in some ways, more principled in others. A Linux that doesn't trend on DistroWatch, doesn't get reviewed by influencers, and doesn't ask for your attention. It simply works — and it waits. In this video I explore three distributions that live outside the mainstream: Devuan, the fork of Debian born from the systemd controversy; OpenMandriva, the keeper of a lineage that goes back to 1998 and the first distro to compile entirely with Clang; and Solus, an independent project built from scratch by one man who gave everything — and nearly lost it all. These are not curiosities. These are statements. About how software should be built, who should control it, and what Linux was always supposed to mean.