Hi, 2016-05-11 12:56 GMT+02:00, Nick <suckless-...@njw.me.uk>: > Hi folks, > > 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.
I've used Void Linux for some times now. The only thing that breaks sometimes it's the package manager and its build tree. But 99% of the time it turns up without any intervention. More on it: it doesn't seem so shitty when you use it (I find it better than apt), but uses xml files (.plist) as package database. If you'll give up with Gentoo, i recommend it.
