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Help! Looking for a new distro (lemmy.ca)
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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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[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 points 3 days ago

Was gonna say. Nix matches all of OPs boxes.