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I absolutely plan on installing Guix System! I’ve been using Arch on my current laptop and NixOS on my servers, but after discovering the raw power of Guix… I can’t go back to NixOS after realizing how much more coherent and powerful Guix is… especially given that there is proper support for running the Nix daemon. There’s only a few downsides: longer clone time, not many service definitions (Guix uses Shepherd instead of systemd), and comparatively few packages in the primary channel (including only linux-libre…). Almost all of those are mitigated, though, by what Guix enables: the full repository clone enables time travel, and channels are well thought out and actually used, especially with inferiors. The real enabler, though, is Scheme as the language instead of Nix. After discovering someone configuring their system in Org mode files… I really can’t look anywhere else.
Sorry, that was a bit evangelical: but basically, I love Guix and plan on going all in when I get my Framework!
That highly depends on how you draw lines, fedora kde and fedora workstatiosna re also separate distros just slightly less separate than arch and chatchy but more separate than being exactly the same one.
Huh? They are separate iso’s but they are the same distro (Fedora). Using your silly argument you could say Cachy with Gnome is a separate distro from Cachy with KDE, they are both the Cachy OS distro. I suspect I’m talking to a 12 year old.
The definiton of distro is very murky so you can draw lines wherever you want. Framework chose to go with a more narrow definition that you would have an you could go with even broader ones like the one I sugested as an example but from a pure data gathering point narrow is the better option as adding similar stuff together is a lot easier than pulling it apart.
As for the catchy thing, catchy doesn’t treat different DEs as different distros but just a setting on one (catchy server once that is out would be the better analog there), fedora treats them as separate sub-distos so it’s not really the same.
The whole distro thing is a tree. If you want to cut that tree by “The publisher considers this a separate branch” or by “same publisher” or “same direct base” are just different options.
After nearly 9 years on macOS, as a result in devices provided by work for web dev and my own laptop being very dated, I am slowly returning to Linux on my personal machine.
I played around with a few distros back in the day and stuck mostly to Ubuntu, must have been around the time of the Gnome 3 release.
Always dual booted with Windows.
In the meantime I used Linux on servers, VMs, and a NAS, always with a DE.
Deeply researching what distro I wanted to use now, discovering new projects and approaches, Ultramarine caught my eye.
The benefits of Fedora (currently my preferred “ecosystem” over Ubuntu/Canonical) with the ease of Linux Mint.
Also love the ease at which desktop environments can be switched.
I want something reliable that is not ancient and stays for years on LTS versions of tools. The goal is to be close to the bleeding edge without cutting myself.
As soon as it is fully set up, it should allow me to move as fast as macOS allowed me to do.
I am surprised it is not more well known or recommended broadly, especially to newcomers and first-timers.
For me there is no benefit of using Fedora over Ultramarine, as it makes the setup much easier and faster. Especially, since switching is possible. The only thing could be the slight lag behind the Fedora release cycle.
While gaming on Linux should be far enough along that I can play games with my little brother again without resorting to Windows. I might still dual-boot it, so I can stay on top of its development which can help with client work or to debug OS-specific issues.
I might try to play around with a Hackintosh setup, though I assume that it got more impossible/incompatible with the architecture switch to ARM.
