Just curious to see what people are up to. I’ve been using Nixos for a while. It’s fabulous and I have absolutely no reason to switch, but part of me is itching to hop to Debian or maybe OpenSUSE. How about you?
Hi, I don’t because I use Windows
I think it’s healthy to give every distro a try to see how it feels, because your favorite distro might be something you haven’t used yet. Personally I’ve already used all the distros a decent amount and I don’t switch without a good reason.
I’m pretty happy on Arch atm. The only things I’d need to change would be the window manager (Sway) or maybe the file manager. I switched from Nemo to Ranger and it’s been so good.
My current plan is to integrate dust (the file size viewer thing) with ranger so I can see how much storage files are using in the directory I’m viewing. I need to find out where I can edit Ranger’s functionality to accommodate this. I might have to resort to cloning the repo.
I enjoy Arch’s DIY approach. I can tailor my system to how I want and if I’m not happy with a certain part I can change it.
I’ve never really understood distro-hopping. Unless you have a reason to switch, why to do it? Or, why to bother?
If you want to check it out, read/watch a review, or test it on a virtual machine. You don’t really – IMO – have a reason to have it on bare metal.
Yes, if you’ve found your distro, I also don’t see a point in switching, there’s more important stuff than learning how to install and setup your distro everytime you hop. I only hopped, when I wanted to have a clean install because my previous was kinda broken (dirty state over time), and/or wanted to have more control, or try a different desktop-environment. I have now found a distro (NixOS) where I can have all of that at the same time (so no point in hopping anymore for me too).
Only when there is a real need . Debian runs on everything and it is a no nonsense distro so I’ve been happy with that for years… Started on Debian 6 and continued until now on laptops servers and SBCs. Before that it was Ubuntu and crunchbang for a few years and before that was fedora core that came on like 6 cds with KDE3.
At this point the only interesting thing for me are security changes. Games are largely sorted due to wine , proton and vulkan and all of the great work going on there.
I keep and eye on quebesOS , NixOS, silverblue ,subgraphOS and openBSD and alpine.
The dream OS would be hardened by default. Hardened Kernel with ACLs for everything defined by default. Like each app should be required to list all of the files it accessed and the type of access in a manifest, list permissions it needs and of URLs it accesses. Obviously there is a need for some wildcard stuff but it could be limited in scope. More of the kernel in rust would be nice with legacy systems removed to reduce the technical debt.
I know we have apparmor and selinux and pax/grsec (if you pay) but I think they dont scale well and require a massive investment in time to understand and debug.
