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Hi, I'm looking for a distro for my laptop. My first distro was Pop!_OS, then I switched to Fedora, then Arch for a year and 2 months ago I switched to Fedora Silverblue, because I wanted to try immutable distro that relies on containers and flatpaks to be usefull. Silverblue is great but not so much for me, its not flexible enough.

I'm thinking of switching to Arch but maybe it's time for something else. Maybe NixOS or Void, Gentoo probably not, I don't have time for compiling everything. What do you recommend?

It must support full disk encryption, secure boot with signing with YOUR OWN KEYS, systemd (because of MullvadVPN), everything else I think can work on any distro (Gnome, podman, kvm, etc.).

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Void, hands down, if you're halfway experienced. Nix is cool but complicated and quite unlike amy other system.

Except void doesn't have systemd, if you really need it, but it's easy to write your own runit routine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] Sir_Simon_Spamalot 1 points 1 year ago

Gentoo, my dude.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The secure boot implementations in Debian and Fedora trust kernel/modules with keys signed by Microsoft. Everything that you listed you want to do, you can do on Arch and with AUR you probably won't need to compile 99.9% of programs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Arch supports all of those.

NixOS does too, but I don't believe Void does.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Vanilla OS 2 Orchid sounds very interesting, I think. It's in alpha now. Have a read about their package manager - it's kinda meta, allowing you to use other package managers in parallel.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Let me suggest: Fedora. It's a solid distro that makes some good decisions, doesn't require a huge amount of effort (unless an update bricks it but it's been a long time since that happened), and can be further customized if needed.

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