This community seems a little, uh, inactive, so here’s my shot at stirring up some discussion.
Me, I’m mostly a debian user. Stable for many, many years, but have been using debian sid recently on laptops without any issue.
This community seems a little, uh, inactive, so here’s my shot at stirring up some discussion.
Me, I’m mostly a debian user. Stable for many, many years, but have been using debian sid recently on laptops without any issue.
I use Arch (btw).
When I made the jump toward Linux, I pretty quickly realized that I would never be content with a default install of pretty much anything. To save myself from endless distrohopping and hammering them into something usable, I instead chose something that would let me build my environment from the ground up, which is basically Arch’s main selling point.
Since then, I’ve fallen in love with some of the other features that it provides. Pacman, for example, puts any other traditional package manager to shame, and creating your own packages is trivial, allowing you to use pacman to manage everything.
One day I would like to try getting a Parabola install going on a spare machine for the 100% libre software experience.
Free Libre software is fine if you’re willing to sacrifice a lot of device drivers (i.e. video drivers). I would install a regular (parent distro) first , like Debian, Fedora, Archlinux, Gentoo, Slack. and they only use libre repos and see if you like it.