I’m pretty comftable with linux mint right now but i want to peruse the wares so to speak, what are some cool or interesting distros that do things differently than mint?

Edit: i dont wanna distro hop people cool your jets, i just wanna look around cos i find it neat :3

  • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    5 months ago

    If you don’t mind reading a little bit and “work hard” to get some things done and “have fun” then I’d suggest to try :

    • NixOS (it can do magic!)
    • Arch Linux (easiest is the Arch based EndeavourOS and the shiny colorful Garuda Linux), learn some pacman and AUR.
    • amber (she/her)@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 months ago

      What actually makes Endeavor easier than Arch? I switched to Arch from Mint a few months ago, and so far I don’t think it’s that difficult.

    • pukeko@lemm.eeEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I look back on learning to live with NixOS and laugh. It made my brain hurt, and if I’d only found the Misterio77 repo sooner, it would’ve saved a lot of premature aging. But, if you have some basic familiarity with programming concepts, it’s an easy OS to live with, just different. And so, so, so, so powerful.

      They do desperately need a set of opinionated example builds and much better documentation.

      • Shareni@programming.dev
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        5 months ago

        Nix + home-manager are a much better starting point than NixOS

        • your system still respects FHS and can still use like npm
        • you can still leverage decades of Linux knowledge
        • it’s much easier to slowly build up knowledge than to have to immediately learn everything