Arch Linux was suckless maybe in 2008. Today it's messy, confused and bloated. For once, it was one of the first distributions to embrace Systemd. I think these emails about "what's a suckless distribution" are always bad, but I'll give my advice (research is on you).
>From most usable to least usable (as of today) --- Alpine Linux --- OpenBSD --- 9front --- stali On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Calvin Morrison <mutanttur...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11 May 2016 at 06:56, Nick <suckless-...@njw.me.uk> 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? > > I highly recommend archlinux. The biggest benefit is the no-bullshit > packaging. They don't patch, they don't fix software, they simply > package it. If something is a problem, take it up with the software > developers, not the packagers. Compare that to debian who patches very > many packages. >
