Have the operating system metric be aware of Linux distributions

[wyatt-avilla]

I would appreciate being able to see your activity on a per-distro basis or having a custom rule that allows you to emulate this behavior.

[gandarez]

@wyatt-avilla could you please ellaborate more?

[wyatt-avilla]

Of course. Currently, WakaTime recognizes activity on all Linux distributions generically as "Linux." I was envisioning a modification to the CLI that would allow it to query the current Linux distribution (in the case where it's running on Linux) and report this as part of the operating system metric. With this modification, the operating system metric on users' profiles could potentially look like this

Alternatively, custom rules within user settings could be modified so that they're able to change operating system names; that way, users could manually implement this functionality.

[gandarez]

@alanhamlett does that make sense to be part of heartbeat pipeline?

[alanhamlett]

I'm not sure... what if someone is using a Linux flavor known for hacking. I wouldn't want to out them publicly on their profile.

Can you use the machine attribute for that?