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Recommend me a distro - Houseoftea - 13-08-2015
Hey all!
I'm in something of a pickel now, I accidentally blew away my root partition of my computer. Serves me right for trying to figure out a python visual novel engine.
Anyways! I thought I should ask for suggestions because I would rather not just re install debian.
I would consider myself a moderate Linux user, I know my way around the command line and I'm not scared of getting into the thick of issues and working them out.
Constraints:
Has to support x86 architecture, (god damn Chromebook)
Has to be something a dedicated moderate user could learn in a couple weeks. school is coming up and I need this thing to write essays on.
Preferences:
Minimal, I'd rather have to set it up myself than have to uninstall it myself.
Pls no bloat fam
Needs:
I don't do that much on my computer, I just need.
- web browsing
- writing
- programming
- music
Things I'm interested in:
Learning, I want to grow as a user.
Source based, always been curious about, I used funtoo for all of two days but maybe I should try something similar?
No Systemd
I will be the first to admit that I don't know everything about the ini that rocked the world. However I have read several well written blog posts that rip it apart.
What can I say, I'm a sucker for well written things.
This isn't that important. I still need to do my own research but I'm just putting it out there for now.
What I was thinking of:
Slackware- why not try it?
Only thing that annoys me is the installer tries to put the kitchen sink on your computer.
Exherbo- will it be too difficult to use or impractical?
Gentoo/funtoo - maybe?
Void - is it any good?
Alpine - I know it's used for network switches and things, would it be usable for a laptop? See needs.
Linux BBQ - I was just using hipster, the latest one is amd64 ;( I used bork for awhile but ran into some issues. Still I love the releases.
Sorry for the long post!
Have a nice night guys
RE: Recommend me a distro - dkeg - 13-08-2015
Plenty of choices out there. And while you have the chance, why not dice up your HD into some nice 10-15GB partitions (or so) to play with different wms. Create a /data partition and automount from fstab. Place all important stuff there, like media, ~/bin, etc, then symlink as needed. Have fun!
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RE: Recommend me a distro - Houseoftea - 13-08-2015
Actually that's a really interesting idea about trying different things in different drives.
Unfortunately I have a 32 gb ssd but that should be enough for 8-10 partitions right?
Also the second I saw your name I knew I was gonna get served the grill ;)
I'll look into more BBQ things though!
RE: Recommend me a distro - swathe - 14-08-2015
I'm a Gentoo advocate but I'd imagine the compile times on the Chromebook would suck.
RE: Recommend me a distro - venam - 14-08-2015
http://distrowatch.com/
Make your own choices, it's not the job of other people to guide your life.
That's the reason why we use *nix.
EDIT: I'm sorry to close this thread but we already have plenty of those and the internet is infested with those kinds of inquiries.
See:
http://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=418
http://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=1648
http://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=214
It's not what those forums are for, see this thread.