I’m wondering if a distro like the one I’m looking for even exists:

  • simple as in KISS and vanilla. This excludes Debian where the package manager is too complex and packages deviate from upstream too much, as well as OpenSUSE, where systems administration relies on GUI tools too much and the package manager is even more complex.
  • fixed release (excludes everything Arch-based)

So from the major distros, only Fedora is left as an option, where I really don’t know enough about it. Is it possible to do a minimal install of it? Is it built around a GUI app store? Does it rely on Flatpak like Ubuntu does with Snap?

Or are there other distros out there that I’m not aware of? Basically everything from the past 5 years I have no experience with. I’ve heard good things about NixOS, but it sounds weird as a daily driver.

  • OsrsNeedsF2P
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    1 year ago

    You’ve picked pretty stupid criteria, but if you’re adamant on it, as another commenter said Slackware is probably one of the best options.

    Fedora dances with Flatpak quite a bit, but you could double check if RHEL does (since that’s what Fedora is based on).

    Again, while Slackware (and possibly RHEL) fit your criteria, your criteria seems pretty silly, and you’re likely to walk into bigger (and harder to solve) problems on more obscure platforms.