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Help! Looking for a new distro (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by hddsx@lemmy.ca to c/linux@programming.dev
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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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[-] 30p87@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago

Then it would be important to know why that doesn't work for you.

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

I’m only on Arch because of the AUR. I don’t have to manually intervene every six months like I used to, but there’s still manual intervention i dislike. With the AUR being attacked, while still usable, it kind of takes away from why I’m using arch over, say, gentoo. Might as well see what else is out there

[-] mondsucht@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

If you dislike manual interventions, Gentoo is probably not what you want. I mean, my experience is a bit dated, since I stopped using Gentoo in 2009, but oh boy, those half system rebuilds because an important library update, not fun. Maybe OpenSuse Tumbleweed is something you want to look into? Unless you consider it RHEL because it uses RPM packages.

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

I don’t do SUSE linux enterprise system derivatives. I disagree with their choices

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