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Help! Looking for a new distro (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by 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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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Debian. Set it to stable instead of trixie and it's kind of a rolling release. Testing if you want newer versions. You won't get breakage unless you use sid.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Does that have issues? Part of the reason I’m looking for a rolling release is way back in the late 2000’s, you could upgrade Ubuntu but things always broke and so you might as well reinstall

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I've not had issues doing distro upgrades in a long time, and I mess with my systems a lot. There's been a lot of progress in 15+ years, and Debian is usually pretty good about keeping stuff working.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago

    I suppose if time has indeed passed by 15 years I could give it another shot. I’m moving my mail server from bookworm to trixie by… getting another VPS, testing out configs against trixie, then switching over

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