Acquired by IBM for 34 billion dollars, RedHat Enterprise Linux provides a refined Linux OS and support to high paying customers.

RedHat but for free and no support.

A RHEL-based linux distro designed for labs.

Sourdough bagel

The free, community driven Linux OS that RedHat Enterprise is built on.

This is built for high-performance multi-core computing & GPU computing.

This distro is popular, while not anything too fancy, more than just bare bone Linux.

Keep the explanations formal, and clear.

Whole wheat bagel with cream cheese and sesame seeds

This distro is essentially Debian with some kernel changes, a different desktop, and some additional packages.

Avoid “bagel but”

Whole wheat bagel with cream cheese and pretzel salt

Ubuntu using the XFCE desktop, the lightest of the *buntus.

Avoid meme operating systems.

This is the chinese distribution of Ubuntu.

Keep in mind, this can and will be shared with people of all ages.

Whole wheat bagel with cream cheese and poppy seeds

This is very similar to Ubuntu, but uses the KDE desktop by default.

Whole wheat bagel with cream cheese and cinammon, may break your neighbor's oven

This distro is built off of Debian but used for penetration testing, it has a lot of hacking tools.

Very user friendly, meant to remind the user of Windows.

Whole wheat bagel, sour cream, sesame seeds, served with orange juice

This distro is Ubuntu with a cherry on top.

Two bagels connected through the center

This is used primarily for routers and networking.

More Slackware?

Another distribution designed to remind the user of windows.

A security focused OS, built for security over efficiency.

This is used for live partitioning.

This can be used for advanced forensics with a high-quality tool named UFO.

This distro has absolutely zero proprietary code.

Tails is linux for the truly paranoid: everything proxied through tor.

This is a very lightweight Linux distribution.

This is built on Arch, but still very lightweight.

DSL is designed to run on only 16 MB (0.016 GB) of RAM.

Slackware, like Arch, is a very lightweight installation, but doesn't offer as much software in exchange for more stability.

openSUSE is a slackware derivative with more features, support, and documentation.

LinuxFromScratch is an installation with the absolute minimum designed to teach people to build a Linux OS.

Used in North Korea to enforce limitations on what the computers can run.

This distro is on smartphones!

Bagel so undercooked you can still shape it

Notable for package management and the lack for binaries, Gentoo is a light distro that offers lots of customization features.

Bagel, cream cheese, and jelly all in separate boxes

This is a live boot for the truly paranoid, based on extreme compartmentalization.

This is used by default on the microcomputer RasperryPi.

Plan 9 follows the "everything is a file" theme, but literally everything is a file.

React is an alternative OS capable of running some Windows applications natively.

This distribution was originally closed source Unix owned by Berkeley, but open sourced eventually

Overpriced regular bagel advertised as a superfood, comes with proprietary cream cheese

Apple’s keynotes are very well received, you cannot share copies of macOS, and it is expensive.