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Help! Looking for a new distro (lemmy.ca)
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Requirements:

  • Must be more user friendly than LFS
  • Must not be in the RHEL/IBM family/stream or derivative
  • Must not be SLES or derivative
  • Does not make you install a desktop environment
  • Must have steam

Hopes

  • Rolling release
  • Has a package manager of some sort
  • Doesn’t require manual intervention every six months
  • Maintainers aren’t psycho
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[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Does that have issues? Part of the reason I’m looking for a rolling release is way back in the late 2000’s, you could upgrade Ubuntu but things always broke and so you might as well reinstall

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

I've not had issues doing distro upgrades in a long time, and I mess with my systems a lot. There's been a lot of progress in 15+ years, and Debian is usually pretty good about keeping stuff working.

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

I suppose if time has indeed passed by 15 years I could give it another shot. I’m moving my mail server from bookworm to trixie by… getting another VPS, testing out configs against trixie, then switching over

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