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

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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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[–] tectabyte@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

NixOS is pretty nice imo.

It's pretty stable, has a good package manager, and is quite declarative thanks to the Nix language based config. It also supports Steam and has a dedicated "Games" page in the wiki (https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Games).

Downside is it's unlike pretty much every other distro, and could have a steep learning curve.

Been using it about a year without problems, would recommend.

[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 points 2 months ago

Was gonna say. Nix matches all of OPs boxes.