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Am upgrading from thinkpad to framework 16 with amd. Looking for distro reccommendations. (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee to c/linux@programming.dev
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I did the whole distro chooser quiz but didnt help much.

Heres the things id like to hit

  • avoid systemd
  • stable
  • Wayland support
  • Minimal packages
  • no immutable (seems like to much of a pain)
  • full disk encryption but thats pretty standard nowdays.

Was going to go with devuan but the debian flavours dont have a stable with wayland yet. I was considering going with a testing or unstable build but would like to avoid headaches on a daily driver. Is testing/unstable got wayland and are they reliable enough? If so what do I go with.

Also hows the hardware comparability with framework i assume it wont be too bad to get set up.

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[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I looked at supported and they got ubuntu supported so i figured debian (and its clones) shouldnt be too bad to set up.

I like sysvinit

As long as i dont need to use a bootable usb to give it back its kernal after failing to update and doesnt randomly crash then id consider that stable enough.

I recon ill go with devuan unstable.

Ive been daily driving arch for about 2 years now (i fuckibg sick of fixing shit i want stability again) had mint prior to that and use debian on my servers.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ubuntu and Debian are very different.

But good luck! I would miss the reset capability of Fedora Atomic. Be sure to configure automatic BTRFS snapshots on updates.

[–] bitfucker@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

If you've driven Arch before, have you looked at Artix?

Edit: Oh, you have trouble with stability then. So not artix

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

I thought i was fine without stability but using a rock solid stable debian install as my server reminded me how much easyer my life could be. Its was fun tho.

[–] bsergay@discuss.online 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the reply!

Devuan Ceres probably makes the most sense indeed. Wish ya good luck with it!

FWIW, while it defaults to runit instead, I still felt the need to mention Void Linux.