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There are four main flavors
Well I've been using openSuse for a while and habe noch keine German influence gesehen.
Got it.
also ...
Debian - for when you want to wait two years
Alternatively: when you want to not worry for two years.
The popular Debian based distros are up to date. That said, core Debian stable is indeed boring, but sometimes boring and stable is what you need.
yeah no hate for debian here
I use Kubuntu LTS for that exact reason. Even though I am an experienced Linux user for over 20 years, I don't have time to fuck around fixing my PC when something goes wrong. It's stable and it works. And, yes I game on my PC and it's doing just fine with my 3070 RTX NVidia card with the drivers provided by Ubuntu through their 3rd party driver system. No hassle, no crashing, just me using my computer doing the things I need to do.
Its not even stable thoughπ I spent 6 hours fixing my networking on my debian 13 stable server, after it randomly got 90 percent packet loss with no explanation
What was the issue?
no clue, fixed it by configuring my network using nmcli instead of ifupdown or nmtui
Driver issue? That or DNS somehow.
Yep, perfect for my server. Literally has never gone down.
Definitely a brick of an operating system, boring as hell, but reliable and has been that way since ancient times.
Before the dawn of history
Look upon my server uptime and despair
Also the additional flavours of
Supports full binary versions since december 2023.
Aka people who know what they're doing and what they want, noted.
Yes, that's pretty much what I said but more accurate and less funny
I've always wondered what the use case for Gentoo-but-binary is. I'm sure there is one, I just can't think of one.
Lazy people who wanna pretend they run gentoo? Dunno either...
Gentoo really has nothing to do with arch. Gentoo in my opinion is more like Debian with compiling and rolling release.
And what about Fedora? Last I checked it was wildly popular.
Gentoo is just frequently cited as the "next step up" from Arch and also funny.
And Fedora is bucketed into the Red Hat flavour.
* Can be determined by 1 file. Or one file and a
.lockfile. Or even more files. Your pick, really.You also have a hardware-configuration.nix by default but shhhhh...
Try CRUX.
(Or KISS/Carbs, Side, Parch, Aeryn, Shebang, ... and there are other new ones I've forgot the name of, that have either BSD userland or BSD style ports packaging systems).
I don't know which is "the most BSD Linux", but I suspect "BSD people" may not be the most familiar with the distroverse, having their own things to tend to.
"NetBSD!" "No, OpenBSD!" "No, FreeBSD!"