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?
11/2 update: I have installed EndevourOS and will be playing with that for a short time, but I think Artix will be next.
Do any distributions use the systemd-homed home directory daemon?
Honestly, just test out a bunch of different distros over the course of a couple of weeks (or months even). As for which distros are worth considering for ‘playtesting’, that’s entirely reliant on your personal ‘Linux Journey’ and whatever you find interesting. Though, if I’d be forced to make a list, then it would consist of the following:
- Start off with Arch, Fedora, Linux Mint, openSUSE Tumbleweed and Ubuntu. (Debian is absent from this list because you’re already using it.) You might even combine this with using different desktop environments on each; as this might have more influence on the experience than the distro itself.
- After indulging with the ‘veteran-distros’, there are some different directions you could go from there. Perhaps you could try a distro that
- doesn’t use systemd; the likes of Alpine, Artix, Devuan, Gentoo, Guix and Void come to mind.
- is ‘immutable’; the likes of blendOS, EndlessOS, Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite/Sericea, Guix System, Nitrux, NixOS, openSUSE Aeon/Kalpa, Vanilla OS and Ubuntu Core Desktop come to mind.
- takes security and/or privacy very seriously; the likes of Kicksecure, (openBSD, QubesOS (even though neither are Linux distros),) Tails and Whonix come to mind.
- holds a conservative stance in regards to software and doesn’t like to enforce change to its users. This enables you to learn the intricacies of its system once without ever having to forego that knowledge as times passes; Slackware.
- is unrivaled in terms of freedom it allows its users; Gentoo.
- unshackles itself from GNU; Chimera Linux and (to a lesser extent) Alpine comes to mind.
I usually prefer having any side machines running something more stable than the main one, as I’m always bound to use and mantain them less often.
Good luck finding something more stable than Debian tho. Maybe something like LMDE, that just got a new version out and is looking great, or trying out an immutable distro.
BSD router project?
