MiddledAgedGuy

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

I do find I like the idea of not having systemd. I don't hate it, but it feels unnecessary. If I end up back on Arch, I'll check that out!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks promising! Seems to check all the boxes. I think I'll try it first. I'll give it a spin in a VM, get a feel for it. Thanks!

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

I don't have a specific example, just seemed like something a user friendly distro might do.

I'll look further in to that Debian based Mint. Thanks for the the recommendation!

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

Your mentioning i3 got me to thinking using a light window manager would probably go a long way to keep dependencies down and simplify maintenance.

I've been running sway on a laptop and I'm starting to get accustomed to it. Might be worth considering.

Looks like OpenSuse is sponsored by SUSE, which has an enterprise Linux product.

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I've happily been a Fedora user for many years now, but RHEL's recent choice to put their source code behind a paywall has me pondering ethical considerations of my distro choice.

It's my understanding that this doesn't have a direct impact on Fedora, and I feel confident that it will continue to be a great distro for the foreseeable future, but I want the commercial/enterprise/corporate influence on the distro I run to be as minimal as possible. For it to be as free as possible.

With that in mind, what distros would everyone recommend?

I only have recent-ish experience with Fedora, Debian, Arch, and Ubuntu. I don't really know much about any others.

Ideally, I'd like it to fit within these boxes as well:

  • Reasonable release cycle time. Debian as an example tends to be too stale by it's nature. Edit for clarification: doesn't have to be bleeding edge, just don't want to fight with outdated dependencies if I'm compiling something from source. I feel distros generally ride this line well, but I've run into a handful of times in the past with Debian.
  • Doesn't try too hard to be user friendly. Obsfucating system internals, forcing a specific DE on you, that kind of thing.
  • Not overly time consuming to maintain. Arch would be an example of that in my opinion. Don't get me wrong, Arch is awesome. But maintaining a rolling release and a bunch of AUR's gets tiresome.
  • Doesn't try to force you to use a flatpaks, snaps, etc.

Seeing it all written out, that's pretty picky. And maybe this unicorn distro doesn't exist. But on the other hand, maybe it does.

A final thought. I know Debian has a testing branch. Anyone have any experience using that as a daily driver? Is it viable?