Cool distros to try

moreeni , 1 month ago

I'm pretty comftable with linux mint right now

For the love of God, spare your free time and don't move from what works. Consider tweaking your system instead and moving only when you broke something

sunshine , 1 month ago

This is the way.

user224 , 1 month ago

spare your free time

But it's not free time if you're not free to waste it ¯⁠\⁠⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠⁠/⁠¯

nicknonya OP , 1 month ago

"time you enjoyed wasting is not time wasted" - Hatzune Miku

nicknonya OP , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

i intended to spin up a vm lmao i'm not gonna trash my home in hopes of finding one with marginally better décor, i'm doing this for fun

Andromxda , 1 month ago

I recommend a Fedora Atomic distro like Silverblue or Kinoite, or Universal Blue, which is based on Fedora Atomic. It offers 3 images: Bazzite (made specifically for Gaming), Aurora (featuring KDE Plasma) and Bluefin which uses GNOME.

aarroyoc , 1 month ago

Alpine Linux, because it uses OpenRC and musl, it's an interesting choice a little bit different but I really like it nyself for servers.

Gentoo, the biggest source based distro, has Emerge, a very configurable package manager.

NixOS, uses the Nix programming language to install packages and configuring the system. Very powerful and breaks many conventions about Linux systems

velox_vulnus , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

NixOS, Guix System, SerpentOS, Bedrock and T2 Linux? Meta-distributions (could be either simple config-based reproducible systems, immutable atomic distros or functional transitive-dependency package managers), micro-kernels and distributed systems are the next cool, bleeding-edge stuff in FLOSS OSes, and most of those projects are still in development.

By the way, NixOS and Guix System use Stores, instead of FHS (File Hierarchy Standard). To take it up one notch, Guix uses shepherd instead of systemd, so if anyone over here dislikes Lenning or systemd for some irrational reasons, you've got a nice distro, I guess. But do note that you don't get to swap init systems in both NixOS and Guix System - you're stuck with systemd and shepherd respectively.