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

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 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 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, please don’t apologize for useful information. This was very helpful and I very much appreciate your insight. It’s good to know that there are alternatives should things go south.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 2 days ago

No problem. If you do decide to give NixOS a try, feel free to ask about anything should things be unclear :)