Billegh

Let’s be honest: nearly all of them now are windowslike girly distros…

It’s much more… manual than others, I’ll admit. For me anymore it’s a labor of love.

Slackware: because I’m old and arch is too trendy.

If it were up to me, though, HDMI would be phased out.

I agree. But sadly, the media market has standardized on it so it’s here for a while. So for as long as there are TVs, we will have HDMI until they move to a new one.

To be fair, scart was less of a standard for display, and more a pinout to carry most of that stuff. Scart is the least problematic of those in the list.

And largely the others weren’t so much competing as they addressed failures in those before it. RF had limited bandwidth and required a carrier. Composite was the same as RF, but better due to not needing the carrier. S-video is the same with the color information separated for a clearer image. Component is better still by further separating color signals.

The issue with HDMI and displayport is that they are largely the same thing.