I know there choice of distro is really meaningless as you can install almost any program on almost any distro. But I have been playing with kali which is for security people and pen testers. Is there a similar distro for programmers? Like a few ides installed some profiling tools some virtual environment tools etc?

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    4 days ago

    Well, not exactly. Any distro COULD be used for development and excel at it, but there are a few intresting options out there. I personally use Fedora with KDE, but if you want to take it to a more advanced level, use arch or nixos. If you want to make your OS, use gentoo or linux from scratch, but very niche and not recommended.

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    13 days ago

    NixOS. It’s really good for building multiple discrete environments specific to a development project, and it’s done via a functional declarative language that’s right up a programmer’s alley. You can specify everything precisely to what you want for that environment including all dependencies and not have them pollute each other when you switch builds.

    But it’s a steep learning curve and the documentation could be better, but it’s probably fine if you’re used to learning new languages.

    https://dev.to/dinex-dev/getting-started-with-nixos-flakes-a-modern-approach-to-configuration-management-39p7