The movie came out in 1999. In the movie, they state that it's 1999 (in the Matrix anyway). Neo is pretty tech savvy and a renowned hacker.
My assumption is he would've used FreeBSD. Or, maybe, Slackware. But I'm leaning more towards BSD.
100 0 ReplyRealistically, Debian, because it existed when the movie was set.
61 1 ReplyHannah Montana Linux
46 2 ReplyKDE NEOn
39 2 ReplyReal image from the really official archived film 👍 👍
35 1 ReplySlackware.
29 0 ReplyI wanna know what the newsreader he uses is
27 0 ReplyWell, since the movies where one big trans allegory, the answer can only be Arch.
30 3 ReplyI don't know the distro, but surely the messenger is based on Matrix protocol
26 1 ReplyThere is no distro.
17 0 ReplyI don't know but he probably has cmatrix installed.
17 0 ReplyI think we all know the real answer, the matrix runs on windows XP
17 0 ReplyKali
20 5 ReplyOpenBSD
15 0 ReplyHe is Assembly, Operating Systems require him to operate.
15 1 ReplyPretty sure he was using DOS in at least one scene.
13 0 Replyi'm sure he runs his own, custom distro he spun himself
13 1 ReplyUwUntu
14 2 ReplyProbably debian or slackware, there weren't that many in 1999
12 1 ReplyDebian, the cool guy distro in 1999. The machine overlords run on Red Hat.
In the low budget parody version, Neo ran Slackware, and the climatic battle was basically about Agent Smith somehow fucking up his libc.so.6 but then Trinity got him a copy of the file on 3.5" floppy from another system. Or something.
12 1 ReplyGNU/Hurd
9 0 ReplyNixOS - about a year ago it would have been Arch, but the Nix bois seem to have overtaken them
us.9 0 ReplyLFS of course.
8 0 ReplySymbian.
7 0 ReplyGentoo
7 0 Reply8 1 ReplySlackware or Debian testing
7 0 ReplyArch btw
8 1 ReplyKali?
8 2 ReplyLFS, he makes his own system.
6 0 ReplymacOS
*hides*
8 3 ReplyThe Chosen OS
5 0 ReplyNix 🤣🤣
6 2 ReplyThe dude sees all the way through 0 and 1. He is the one OS
4 0 ReplyTails
2 0 ReplyMandriva
2 0 Reply@bastonia debian 😏
1 0 ReplyCrunchbang #! (Or I guess they call it bunsenlabs now?)
1 0 ReplyUbuntu LTS
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