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Help me choose a distro (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) by akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Update: Thank you all for your kind and quick responses! I installed Void and antiX and cruised around in them a little. I ended up defaulting back to Artix in the end. The hardware issues with the NIC seem to have gotten resolved. Whatever toxicity and bigotry is present among their larger demographic, I'm going to spread as much light and love as possible. That is, until I switch OS again. 🤣

I have literally never whined about distros before. I went through some Debian based ones, some Arch based one and also installed a base version of Gentoo.

I am most fond of Arch, but after trying Artix, I found that I'm more comfortable with OpenRC as init and process management.

In addition to the latest Artix making my NIC unrecognized by the OS, the Artix forums also seem to house at least some transphobia. This is as good as any opportunity for me to finally ask the question to the world wide web:

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T480 on which I want to use mpv to play video. What Linux flavor do you recommend for a non desktop setup? I looked briefly at Slackware, but it seemed somewhat prepackaged, as opposed to configured by me.

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[–] zzffyfajzkzhnsweqm@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Arch (based) - if you like to customize every detail of your OS

Nixos - if you like to customize every detail of your OS and you are tired of breaking your system constantly

PopOS - if you would like to stop customizing your system and want to get used to great defaults

Mint - you just want things to work

CachyOS or Bazzite - if you want to play games

[–] ultimate_worrier@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

IMO, NixOS is like arch but it forces you to declare everything up front.

I’ve seen people create advanced configs with Arch then bring them over to the locked-in world of NixOS. I’d add that Home-Manager is crucial if you decide to do that (less so if you are building headless machines or VM’s). Ps. You can even build a super customized config then run it as a NixVM in your favorite container manager/k8s cluster.

[–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks! I'd really like to stay with an Arch based system, but the last update of Artix "breaking" my NIC in combination with the distasteful comments that I read on their forums towards transpeople made me want to quit... Would it be possible to install Arch and "simply" use OpenRC there? 🤔

[–] zzffyfajzkzhnsweqm@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would not bother much about transphobia, because in every large enough forum you will find them sooner or later. I would report them and move on. I would go with Artix in your case and figure out the issue with NIC. Seems like the best option based on you requirements.

[–] akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 22 hours ago

Thanks. Artix really did hit all the right spots for me. If Alpine doesn't feel the same, maybe I'll just solve that NIC issue.