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As I said in another comment:

I did initially have CachyOS in the gaming group, but after looking a little closer, it appears to be a general-purpose distro optimized for performance, which happens to be useful for gaming. So it doesn't seem to be specifically made for gaming, which is why I pulled it out of that group but kept it right next to it (and next to the "popular" group, since it's one of the most popular distros).

I haven't actually tried them all, not even most of them. The spider one is Slitaz. There's a spoilered list in the main post btw.

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Have you visited any of the other platforms lately? Just sayin...

LineageOS is not degoogled and will connect to google unless properly firewalled, which afaik cannot be done properly on-device. LineageOS is googled android, and google is a nefarious surveillance advertising corporation. So LineageOS is borderline malware in my eyes.

~~/e/OS is not in any of the gray rows that denote a failing grade. It is in the red "Corporate" row, because it is owned/controlled by a corporate entity, and it has a passing grade from me. I trust it for my parents and other "normal" people who need a phone that works without issues. MicroG is installed and enabled by default, but if it is disabled, then /e/OS becomes fully degoogled.~~

Correction: /e/OS will be moved to the Dubious row for not being fully degoogled.

However, as I said in another comment:

android is under google's control and doesn't look like it will last indefinitely. I feel that android itself is a dead-end. Projects like GrapheneOS will have to do a hard fork away from android one day, or they will cease to exist as an option.

Why does LFS have its own group? Honestly, it's mainly just so that the logo stands out better in the dark-mode version of this tier list. I also felt it made sense to single it out as special.

Why are there groups for Secure Fedora and Secure Android? Since there are already groups for Red Hat distros (which includes Fedora) and Android, I thought it made sense to make it obvious that the secure fedora/android distros were part of those other groups, similar to my reasoning for making a Secure Debian group. Those distros being optimally secured grants them higher rank than all the rest of the distros from those groups. All the other distros stay where they are because I don't see them as different enough to rise in the list. The secured ones, I do see as having reason to rise, and so they are placed higher, but I want it to be obvious that they are in fact Debian/Fedora/Android at their core.

They are not as secure as grapheneos, and they don't really care

It's definitely not for everyone, but it's very good at what it sets out to do and be, for those who want or need such a thing. It compliments my ocd nicely, especially the concept of disposable qubes. It's just perfect for me. The optimal security also gives me peace of mind, a calm mind. It's lovely. But yeah, I understand that it's not for everyone. It's cool that you tried it though. Most people don't even know it exists.

Thank you!

Beyond 5 logos, this graph is useless to me

One problem is that some of the distro names are so long that I'd either have to shrink the text for all names or do it selectively, neither of which feels good to me, so I opted to just not list the names in the image itself (at least not yet). Another thing is that it took so long to align all the other text in the image, and it would devour my time to try adding all of the distro names. Yet another thing, I'm pretty sure I'd have to shrink all of the logos in order to properly fit the distro names, and even slightly altering the size of any logo would mean that I'd have to spend a lot of time realligning them. Did I mention that I made this in a text editor?