Hey fellow Linux enthusiasts! I’m curious to know if any of you use a less popular, obscure or exotic Linux distribution. What motivated you to choose that distribution over the more mainstream ones? I’d love to hear about your experiences and any unique features or benefits that drew you to your chosen distribution.

  • acow
    1·
    1 year ago

    NixOS wherever possible.

    I was drawn to Nix because it addressed panic points I’d long had with system administration:

    • Ad hoc notes listing interactive commands needed to get a system up and running
    • Underspecified versions of software making reproducibility impossible
    • Implicit environment dependencies of well-intentioned bash scripts
    • etc

    Then I had the experience that contributing to nixpkgs was surprisingly easy despite me never having contributed to another large distribution before, and I was sold.