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this post was submitted on 16 Oct 2023
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My fav obscure distros are: 1. Sparky Linux, Debian based simple stable system. It has many flavours with a lot of desktops to choose from. Also has stable and semi-roling iso. Now I never installed Debian itself, so can't compare sparky with Debian. But it is very much better than any other distro I used. I don't know why it is not popular. 2. Reborn OS. I used to love it when running. Arch based lovely project. This is the very much successor of Antergos.
Have you tried Spiral too?
Spiral, yes I had a glance on it. It seemed the Gecko of Debian, as expected. I did not find it too different than sparky, so I did not embrace it well. Not planning to see again for now either. If I get a chance to try a new distro, I'd install Void or NixOS. For now I am happy with Arch or ubuntu family.