On Wed, 11 May 2016 11:56:41 +0100 Nick <suckless-...@njw.me.uk> wrote:
Hey Nick, > A few nights ago my too-expensive laptop met with too-cheap wine and now > it is a far-too-expensive brick. As it's therefore time for me to > install a new OS on a new laptop, I was wondering what people would > recommend. I've been using Debian Stable for years now, which while it > sucks does work well enough that I don't have to think about it very > much, so I can do more interesting things with my time. But particularly > after reading a few good articles about issues with debian [0] [1] I > find myself wondering if there's a better option out there. A rolling > release distribution would be fine with me, but only if it didn't break > often at all; I enjoyed using Gentoo years ago when I was a student, but > keeping it working took a lot of time that I do not want to dedicate to > keeping a working system these days. I'd like to try something like > morpheus [2], but I suspect that would take quite a lot of time and > energy to get going and maintain. first you have to assess if you really need Linux. If not, there's nothing better to recommend than OpenBSD. Unfortunately, due to my work, I depend on different Linux things that are not available on OpenBSD (wine, fuse, LUKS, ...) and which cannot be replaced efficiently. I'm running Gentoo atm and once you've got a running system even Gentoo is not too much of a chore (at least not more than Debian, which sucks ass). If you depend on Linux-stuff, I'd take a look at Gentoo again. For rolling releases, you can go with -CURRENT on OpenBSD. Cheers FRIGN -- FRIGN <d...@frign.de>
