At first, I thought Arch. But then I thought, no, Vader isn’t a super geek, wanting to fuss over the nuts and bolts. He needs something bad (as in agressive, tough), but at the same time fast and easy to use. Just like holding up your hand when laser bolts zap the palm or your hand. There, easy! No time to mess around, when you’ve got an evil empire to run. I think he would run MX Linux, with XFCE IMHO. With compiz/compton turned on, for that semi-transparent effect, just like his tinted-red helmet eyeholes.
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I didn’t ask what distro Annakin Skywalker would use - back when Vader was in his youth - but rather when he was in his arch-villian leadership position. Huge difference in context. Vader has no time to wile away, tinkering for lack money (money being no object to a high-ranking leader such as Vader), like back in his youth.
Can you narrow your choice just down to one distro?
I think he’d be running FreeDOS off of a floppy disk, with a few staff submitting patches for his respirator. No doubt his suit would be proprietary, but the company that made it went out-of-business after they “displeased” him and were killed apart from the remainder now working for the empire directly. Those who remain are too scared to even file a public bug report, let alone actually apply the last five years of fixes to the suit directly as an unwieldy upgrade.
Some have considered this eventual upgrade as the last day of their lives… half the team has decided to boot the suit to a more modern Floppinux, but no one is willing to broach this process to Lord Vader himself. So, FreeDOS remains.
The first thing that popped into my mind was Black Arch. He would obviously use the tools destructively, to destroy his enemies. Also something about the theming seems like it’s already right up his alley (maybe just swap out some blue for red, and make that sword a lightsaber ).
That square box on his chest is the 3.5" disk drive where the floppy goes. The slot faces downwards so you never see it. This way coffee never spills inside the drive, dripping down from above. (On rare occasions, if Vader laughs too quickly while his mouth is full of coffee, spraying it inside his helmet, it can drip out of his triangular mouth grill.)
PS: his lightsaber would have a Raspberry Pi Pico inside it, running Fuzix (with C code to control the hardware):
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