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What are the more obscure independent linux distros? (piefed.zip)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/linux@programming.dev
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We all know about Debian, Fedora and Arch but what about the lesser known ones that are built from the ground up?

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[–] 17 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

I've been using NixOS for my laptop and servers for over a year and I'm totally obsessed with it. While I upvoted you for visibility, I wouldn't really call NixOS obscure anymore. I'm constantly seeing it randomly mentioned in various distro-agnostic Linux spaces online lately.

Although it's been seeing a lot of hype lately, I agree it's still sort of niche and definitely not for everyone.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    I can see where you're coming from! Specifically this community though I've not seen it a lot - you're completely right though, the more native one becomes the more one is confronted with it.

    I'm still struggling with the slowness of things (e.g. a quick endpoint change) and I can't get my head around reason error messages "fluently", i.e. I have to think about what the errors want to tell me instead of resolving it - a bit like old python stuff really.

    And then there are the edge cases ..... It took me a long time to change the config the very first time while offline - which makes sense from a model perspective but from my user brain it was just ... wrong :D

    Perhaps I should switch my clients as well to get more exposure....

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