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Distro for experienced Linux user

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.).

knobbysideup ,

I prefer doing useful things with my workstation vs playing with the OS itself, so mint cinnamon is my recommendation. Servers are ansible-managed alma. Professionally I’m a Linux systems architect and devops engineer.

pete_the_cat ,

Linux From Scratch 😉

Klaymore , (edited )
@Klaymore@sh.itjust.works avatar

You want immutable distros but Silverblue wasn’t flexible enough? Why not try NixOS? It’s really nice.

I’ve been using it for two years and I love being able to make changes to my config and having those changes apply to all my computers. It’s also basically unbreakable, if my computer explodes I can just reinstall NixOS with my config files and it will instantly be set up exactly how I want it.

ferox ,
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Fedora 38

cbarrick ,

I use Arch (btw) because of the ArchWiki, and I’m totally comfortable configuring my system how I like it.

But I do appreciate Debian a lot. You can customize things to almost the same extent, but packages come preconfigured with great defaults and designed to better work together, unlike Arch which uses the upstream defaults almost universally.

blarp ,
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Well, they say Nix is the new Arch, so there’s that. Redcore is Gentoo but without the compiling – you might like that. Void is out because it’s too similar to Arch and has no Systemd.

Instead of experimenting with distros maybe instead you could hop on a reliable distro and explore some other facet of Linux. For example, I lived in Emacs for 9 months as a challenge. Or you could mess around with a WMs instead, maybe try to work your way from i3 to Qtile to Xmonad?

biestander ,

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