On Wed, 11 May 2016, Nick wrote: > 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. > > Any suggestions / thoughts? > > Nick >
If you are comfortable enough with Debian, I would suggest to check out Devuan at https://devuan.org . While it's not suckless, it does suck less than Debian :) Gentoo, when setup, "just werkz" so there isn't much to maintain afterwards. Gentoo is my distro of choice, and Devuan on production servers where other people don't want Gentoo (grrr!) ciao! -- ~ parazyd 0333 7671 FDE7 5BB6 A85E C91F B876 CB44 FA1B 0274
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