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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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[–] TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If you want it to be more friendly than LFS, but not by too much, take a look at Gentoo.

Main feature is the ease of compiling software instead of grabbing binary packages, so, update times can get a bit out of hand depending on what you want on your system.