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NixOS is super easy. It gets a bit complicated when you use flakes, but you don't need to to start.
You just put the system packages into the configuration so you can replicate that system everywhere.
But if you don't care, just install everything to the user profile! It just works like any distro then, no config files to mess with
The first power spike you will experience is actually setting up a service like Jellyfin by just editing the configuration.nix, though. It's so much easier than having to mess with the configuration yourself (someone already did the work for you)
@elucubra linux mint was my goldilocks for a while. Had to get through some major driver issues before it was stable but I loved it. Very recently moved to fedora because I wanted the latest updates without being on a edge distro
~ debian ~
Slackware.
It. Just. Works.
I haven't tried slackware in some years, but doesn't it require not minding that the version of everything be way dated? OP said "up to date".
Go to packages.slackware.com or slackbuilds.org and you will see the base system has reasonably up to date packages.
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For me it's either OpenSUSE Tumbleweed or Arch and I can never decide which. Tumbleweed having snapper and YaST everything out of the box is amazing but sometimes I miss the AUR, and Zypper is so much slower than Pacman. I also really like Fedora Silverblue on my laptop but I don't think I could use it on my main system.
I tried ChromeOS today, and while it looks awesome, has some really great UI elements and integrations, I would still say uBlue with KDE Plasma comes close to it.
I would prefer sane atomic updates though, like twice a month. Fedora is not that good in that regard, you want to update every day as you get fixes every day.
Also, OCI images are consuming tons of bandwidth currently, so ostree is still better.
Arch, because I use niche software and the AUR doesn't always get along with Manjaro very well (ungoogled-chromium-bin is the worst offender). Switched to arch, configured it identically to my manjaro install, and all has been well.
Great question. Right up there with "what's the best movie" or "which meal should I order". Maybe you want to ask which editor is the best too?
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