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Help! Looking for a new distro (lemmy.ca)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days 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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[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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 4 days ago (1 children)

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 4 days ago

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