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jhx, hace 1 mes

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The hopping itself can be fun. But for me it was more of a hassle than fun to be honest.
Sure, things were for sure learned while doing so. 😉
Arch and Debian is my thing 😎
Used Void before for some time - was pretty solid.
But these days are over, two left 😀

jhx, hace 1 mes

@array
Debian is quite the allrounder. I use Arch mostly for fiddling and dev stuff - since the bleeding aspect helps there.
On the BSD side I use Open/FreeBSD

They are indeed good choices 😉

jhx, hace 1 mes

@array
For me it has always been alright. I've once had a new system that was not yet supported. But right now I'm only using used hardware - nothing new or bleeding at all. So it is less of a concern to me.
But yes, when dealing with newer hardware this can be a challenge... but: there is always backported kernels and one can use testing 😉
It all depends on the hardware in the end.
Fedora is "faster" with it's 6 month release cycle. Debian is more conservative. And Ubuntu is in between

jhx, hace 1 mes

@array
Even if you need newer stuff: There most likely is a repo, package, container, etc. available to get it 😉
I for example get Ansible directly via pipx - just because I like to have the newest release.
2 years old should be totally fine for #Debian
New hardware also mostly works - it rather is bleeding edge tech that get's fiddly.
(Besides, building a kernel if nothing else is available is also not too hard)

jhx, hace 1 mes

@array
You can leverage the existing kernel config and just build a new kernel - either tweaking via nconfig/menuconfig or just building it directly 😉
But backported kernels are available for sure in the end.
Yes, the number of options is crazy - esp. dealing with device drivers... which you can purge for the most part 😂

jhx, hace 1 mes

@array
Once the config is set it is quite easy indeed.
Sure, the backported kernels are also tested and working 😉
A custom baked kernel can, depending on the config, be not working 100% correct

jhx, hace 1 mes

@array
That is the same story with a Gentoo install. Used to do Gentoo/Xfce before. You can certainly compile out a lot of stuff (Given USE flag magic and custom kernel configs).
In the end I do not care too much about that anymore. Besides, Debian with a netinstall is quite light in itself.
antiX is a great spin 😎

jhx, hace 1 mes

@array
A small machine can go a very long way, let alone the lower power consumption!
I love smaller systems - they are a huge fun to tinker with.
Sure if you need more power the hardware also needs to scale up.

antiX is for sure great. Devuan is also near and dear to my heart.
Also, makes for a great live distro if troubleshooting is needed. 😉

jhx, hace 1 mes

@array
Thanks 🙂
Indeed, that would be great if any community would be inherently positive and welcoming.
A sad fact, or problem, esp. in the Linux land is so called elitism - people pushing their views/distros onto others since they are above everyone else... seen that many times.
To each there own I'd say 😉

jhx, hace 1 mes

@array
I like to recommend the distros I use BUT I do not force them on anyone. Everyones needs are different, that is a fact of life.
I totally do not care what distro/coding lang/etc. anyone uses.