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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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[-] who@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

This is an unusual combination of requirements:

  • Does not make you install a desktop environment
  • Must have steam

I guess maybe you're planning to use the same distro for a server and a gaming system? Debian can do that. I recommend enabling Debian Backports on the gaming system, for access to recent kernel/firmware/mesa packages (you pick which ones you need).

By the way, markdown ate your list formatting because you didn't put a space between the - and the text.

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Thanks, fixed formatting.

I just run i3wm. It’s easier to do get to where I’m going if it never installs gnome to begin with.

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