What do you consider to be the “Goldilocks” distro? the one that balances ease of install and use, up-to-date, stability, speed, etc… You get the idea.

I’m not a newb, these last few years I’ve lived in the Debian and derivatives side of things, but I’ve used RH, Slackware, Puppy :), and older stuff, like mandrake/mandriva and others. Never tried Suse or Arch, and while Nix looks appealing, I need something to put in production rapidly. I have tried Kinoite in a VM, but I couldn’t install something (which I can’t remember), and that turned me off.

Oh I’m on Mint right now, because lazy, but it’s acting up with a couple of VMs, which I need, I really don’t have the time or desire to maybe spend two days troubleshooting, and I’m a bit fed up with out of date pkgs.

  • RageLtd@lemmy.world
    21·
    2 months ago

    Well that certainly sounds like it’s worth investigating, at the very least. Thanks!

    The big problem for me was SSH and IDE tools. Iirc they only worked with stuff installed on the base image (I use 1Password’s ssh agent)

    • j0rge
      91·
      2 months ago

      bluefin/aurora co-maintainer here, the 1password ssh agent is a miniboss we haven’t conquered yet, just a heads up.

      • RageLtd@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        Thanks for your fantastic work! I actually successfully moved both my laptop and desktop to ublue distros last night!

        It turns out Bazzite was the image for me though, far easier to layer VSCode and 1Password onto Bazzite than getting steam working on Bluefin

    • erwan
      31·
      2 months ago

      There are a few improvements in Aurora over Silverblue that you might like.

      It ships with homebrew which is perfect for CLI tools.

      It ships with distrobox instead of toolbx which is much better. You can install any distro while toolbx is just a Fedora. For example I’m using Arch in toolbox because of the number of packages and the fact that they’re usually up to date (no need to wait for a major release).

      So far I never had to use rpm-ostree, and for VSCode I use distrobox precisely because of the permissions.

      • RageLtd@lemmy.world
        21·
        2 months ago

        I’m downloading Bluefin DX as we speak! Definitely gonna play with it a bit

        • RageLtd@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 months ago

          For anyone following this thread, I successfully moved my gaming desktop and my framework laptop to Bazzite last night!

          I initially went with Bluefin, but it was easier to layer VSCode and 1Password onto Bazzite than it was to get Steam working on Bluefin