Contents of cells are sorted from top to bottom as most to least humane. Columns "Recommended" software is well designed for any purpose. "Niche" software is designed for a specialized purpose. "Interesting" software is designed with an alternative approach. "Malware" is designed to work against its users.
| Recommended | Niche | Interesting | Malware | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating system | Gentoo Obarun Joborun Linux | Chimera Linux OpenBSD T2 Bedrock Linux CRUX Lunar Linux Source Mage | dahliaOS Alpine Linux Genera | Debian ad. Slackware ad. openSUSE ad. RHEL ad. Anything made by Microsoft or Apple. Android |
| File system | ext4 XFS ZFS | exFAT FAT FUSE NTFS | HAMMER2 | APFS |
| Shell | rc sh cmd.exe | mksh oksh ksh | Dynamic Lisp Listener | everything else |
| C standard library | musl BSD libc uClibc Newlib | glibc | ||
| Utility suite | sbase s6-portable-utils BusyBox | asmutils | GNU core utilities | |
| Initialization and supervision system | s6 + s6-rc 66 + 66-rc | Dinit Finit | System V init systemd | |
| Initialization system | sinit | |||
| Package manager | portage pacman XBPS Homebrew | Nix Guix | everything else |