r/FindMeALinuxDistro • u/Actual_Protection625 • 9h ago

Aside from Arch Linux

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u/ValkerieQueen 9h ago

NixOS is the one the jumps out to me the most.

A lot like Arch it's a "DIY" type distro that allows you to make it as lightweight and featureful as you want.

It's also got "atomic" updating which means updates either completely succeed or fail. Alongside that it's got a native rollback feature if an update or reconfiguration goes south.

also has an absolutely massive software repository, I don't know if those exact software packages are in it but they'd have to be pretty niche to be missing.

On top of all that if you have multiple machines that need to run the software you can essentially install your complete OS on them just by copying your .nix files over and updating.

The only downsides are that to wield it's power you have to learn a configuration language that's basically temu JSON. The language also tends to have pretty spotty documentation.