Update: Thank you all for your kind and quick responses! I installed Void and antiX and cruised around in them a little. I ended up defaulting back to Artix in the end. The hardware issues with the NIC seem to have gotten resolved. Whatever toxicity and bigotry is present among their larger demographic, I’m going to spread as much light and love as possible. That is, until I switch OS again. 🤣
I have literally never whined about distros before. I went through some Debian based ones, some Arch based one and also installed a base version of Gentoo.
I am most fond of Arch, but after trying Artix, I found that I’m more comfortable with OpenRC as init and process management.
In addition to the latest Artix making my NIC unrecognized by the OS, the Artix forums also seem to house at least some transphobia. This is as good as any opportunity for me to finally ask the question to the world wide web:
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T480 on which I want to use mpv to play video. What Linux flavor do you recommend for a non desktop setup? I looked briefly at Slackware, but it seemed somewhat prepackaged, as opposed to configured by me.
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Use the filters (including init software) to narrow your options:
Guix of course! (Fair warning I have never used guix)
I haven’t used Guix system (as OS) but using it on top of Arch has been… Cool at least?
I can’t speak for it’s reliability or reproducibility that much since I haven’t encountered issues yet. It’s hard to grasp, and hard to setup, and needs a lot of time and network bandwidth but it’s cool. I like adding my packages to a manifest so I know what is installed and when.
Idk why your comment has the most upvotes. I will give an upvote to you anyways.
I’m more comfortable with OpenRC as init and process management.
this community is dominated by the systemd fanboys and you will be punished accordingly for your heresy. lol
this community is dominated by the systemd fanboys
Hey now. There’s dozens of us who had that thing force fed for us. I’ve been on Debian for decades, so even if I don’t really like systemd it’s the lesser evil than switching a distro to something without it.
Alpine seems to tick your boxes. Or maybe AntiX?
Except if you want to experiment/develop on there too, then maybe Void, if you’re fed up with Artix/Arch.Update: Thank you all for your kind and quick responses! I installed Void and antiX and cruised around in them a little. I ended up defaulting back to Artix in the end. The hardware issues with the NIC seem to have gotten resolved. Whatever toxicity and bigotry is present among their larger demographic, I’m going to spread as much light and love as possible. That is, until I switch OS again. 🤣
I know you are asking for Linux, but if you like OpenRC, why not try one of the BSDs, specifically FreeBSD or OpenBSD.
If you still want Linux, NixOS or an immutable Linux sound fun.
Thanks! What should I expect from BSD-systems? Are they customizable from the start like an Arch based system or are they more of a done deal?
BSD actually heavily inspired crux, arch, and gentoo. The aur and portage were inspired by BSD ports. Now of course, I do not know which BSD did the inspiration.
Void Linux. For me, the moment you need to move away from systemd is when it’s time to switch to Void.
I laughed out loud when I heard the Super Mario coin beep as the TUI was displayed. I made a live USB just in case I’m unable to revive my NIC on Artix.
Good luck to you.
And here’s a discussion about void from this community a few days ago:
https://lemmy.ml/post/51274177
I’ve never used Artix but I saw someone bought it up recently about their toxic community. Didn’t know about that, glad I do now.
Void uses runit, not openRC.
Arch (based) - if you like to customize every detail of your OS
Nixos - if you like to customize every detail of your OS and you are tired of breaking your system constantly
PopOS - if you would like to stop customizing your system and want to get used to great defaults
Mint - you just want things to work
CachyOS or Bazzite - if you want to play games
IMO, NixOS is like arch but it forces you to declare everything up front.
I’ve seen people create advanced configs with Arch then bring them over to the locked-in world of NixOS. I’d add that Home-Manager is crucial if you decide to do that (less so if you are building headless machines or VM’s). Ps. You can even build a super customized config then run it as a NixVM in your favorite container manager/k8s cluster.
