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?

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FreeBSD. Can’t go wrong with looking at unix if you want something interesting

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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.

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Arch is Fun

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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!

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