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Hey guys! I'm looking for a unique and creative Linux distro that i can use in day to day situations. Any reccomendations?

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[–] Bitflip@lemmy.ml 8 points 53 minutes ago

Unique? Hannah Montana Linux is back.

[–] CallMeAl@piefed.zip 4 points 59 minutes ago
[–] tiptoes@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 minutes ago
[–] TrivialRevolution@lemmy.ml 1 points 32 minutes ago* (last edited 30 minutes ago)

I've used alpine and can confirm, it's pretty fun and efficient.

I've even been thinking of trying to setup a super small work environment on it, a full Wayland desktop daily driver, like, using labwc, lxqt, foot terminal and Emacs making it into a terminal first workplace with the ability to exploit it's computing efficiency to make use of the modern stack in stuff like web browsing when the terminal tooling doesn't cut it.

My computer can run everything pretty well already, but a terminal first environment is the perfect training for me to get used to my new split keyboard layout, while also being a perfect excuse to go all in on my programming hobby by setting everything up in a container like environment such as alpine, additionally, the minimalism larp appeals a lot to me, it just feels right.

[–] mHtt@lemmy.ca 1 points 46 minutes ago

i always start my search here:

https://distrowatch.com/

[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

I've been playing around with Alpine Linux lately which has been fun. Also if you haven't used an immutable distro before, they're quite different to play around with.

[–] Peasley@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

i always liked Bunsenlabs, very nice minimalist setup. windowmaker live (wmlive) is also interesting, more in a retro direction.

For the opposite side of the spectrum: Garuda Linux Dragonized

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago