krash ,

Linux from scratch, does that count?

(It isn't a distro, but more of a learning project that will expand your knowledge a lot, after you've emitted buckets of blood, sweat and tears)

steeznson ,

Gentoo is a good alternative to this - at least after you are done setting it up you will have a useable, updateable OS.

eshep ,
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@krash @steeznson I always recommend to anyone interested in learning about linux. I'd advise LFS only as a follow up to that once they have an understanding of what goes where.

warmaster ,

Nixos is a declarative distro, it's an interesting concept.

Also, Immutable distros:

  • Fedora Universal Blue
  • Bazzite OS
  • Vanilla OS
  • Blend OS
Kangie ,

I'm a huge proponent of Gentoo Linux as a learning experience. It's a great way to learn how the components of a system work together and the distro enables an amazing amount of configurability for your system.

Even following a handbook install in a VM can be a good experience if you're interested.

fruitycoder ,

I've been on an immutable distro and declaritive distro kick lately.

So the bluefin project, which has so much sugar it a damn cake (in a good way, lots of stuff to get you to a usable running state for a lot of Dev environment and gaming).

I'm digging into SUSE microos more now, mostly to play with elemental (I really want a featureful CI/CD env for my desktop, so containers to full VM and isos is neat to me).

Nix has been super, super useful for packages that I want between OSs, but the alure of getting better configuration with them on full nixos is slowly drawing me in.

Guix on the other hand is my current ideal, I am just super impressed with their full source bootstrapping and really love a lot of the philosophy of the project, but they don't get as much love from the professional crowd (nonacademic, non amateur).

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