I have a ‘spare’ Dell Latitude 7390 (Core i5 9gb ) on this machine. My production machine runs Debian with KDE.
What might be an interesting distro for me to try out on my spare machine?
FreeBSD. Can’t go wrong with looking at unix if you want something interesting
Arch btw: it is much stable that many Linux users think, there are a ton of guide to do/repair things thanks to Arch Wiki, and, last but not least, it has the AUR repository in which you can find basically all software you will ever need; the only malus the AUR repository has is that you have to compile every software you install with it (even if sometimes they are precompiled).
P.S. if you want a “ready-to-go” arch distro, install EndevourOs and set the btrfs file system with timeshift. Here’s a guide.
Arch is Fun
10/01 Second Morning Update: @cocolopez@lemmy.world The machine is spare for now, eventually, I would like to turn it into kind of a modern clone of an HP85/HP87 - Good plotting, Nice BASIC. Perhaps replace BASIC with Python once I am more comfortable with Python.
But then, I -do- have a Steam account.
Fun fact - this machine has a touch screen!