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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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[-] TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If you want it to be more friendly than LFS, but not by too much, take a look at Gentoo.

Main feature is the ease of compiling software instead of grabbing binary packages, so, update times can get a bit out of hand depending on what you want on your system.

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