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

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 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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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Tumbleweed is a community distro before SUSE in the chain, new innovations that are proved out go from TW to SUSE, then Leap is derived from SUSE with shared binaries. Unless there are other issues you don't like besides SUSE/leap corporate?

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Similar to fedora, I try not to use distros in the stream/family of an enterprise system I dislike. Right now, that’s RHEL and SLES