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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Goldilocks distro? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What do you consider to be the "Goldilocks" distro? the one that balances ease of install and use, up-to-date, stability, speed, etc... You get the idea.

I'm not a newb, these last few years I've lived in the Debian and derivatives side of things, but I've used RH, Slackware, Puppy :), and older stuff, like mandrake/mandriva and others. Never tried Suse or Arch, and while Nix looks appealing, I need something to put in production rapidly. I have tried Kinoite in a VM, but I couldn't install something (which I can't remember), and that turned me off.

Oh I'm on Mint right now, because lazy, but it's acting up with a couple of VMs, which I need, I really don't have the time or desire to maybe spend two days troubleshooting, and I'm a bit fed up with out of date pkgs.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Debian Stable + flatpaks. If I were to install it again, I would probably use spiral Linux.

I've moved to cachyOS, I've been getting into running local AI, and they offer an optional prebuilt SDK.

(with Debian I would have to install CUDA myself, which would cause issues on kernel updates)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

love debian stable but ive veen wanting to try kicksecure