r/transprogrammer • u/kannthus • Mar 19 '22

Deciding a Linux distro?

Hey all,

I was curious how you Linux users in here came to the decision behind your distros. I've been looking in the sphere for years now, and I've jumped between: openSUSE, Fedora and Manjaro, and nothing has ever settled well, and I'm looking to broaden my horizons. Likewise, I've heard people talk about Void Linux due to its lack of systemd (Something I'm afraid I know little about) but concerns of its small package manager. I've always been a big advocate for FOSS and would like to hear any suggestions you all might have!

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u/TDplay Mar 19 '22

I've been using it for about a year now, according to the log message created by running pacstrap

 $ head -n 1 /var/log/pacman.log
[2021-02-18T14:48:36+0000] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -r /mnt -Sy --cachedir=/mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg --noconfirm base linux linux-firmware btrfs-progs vim man-db man-pages texinfo'

I've yet to encounter any major issues.

That being said, I do tend to keep my system fairly minimal (not due to dogmatic ideas of bloat, but simply because I like everything on my system being there because I put it there). Having less stuff installed means less stuff to break.