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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Distro for experienced Linux user (monero.town)

submitted 2 years ago by chevy9294@monero.town to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hi, I'm looking for a distro for my laptop. My first distro was Pop!_OS, then I switched to Fedora, then Arch for a year and 2 months ago I switched to Fedora Silverblue, because I wanted to try immutable distro that relies on containers and flatpaks to be usefull. Silverblue is great but not so much for me, its not flexible enough.

I'm thinking of switching to Arch but maybe it's time for something else. Maybe NixOS or Void, Gentoo probably not, I don't have time for compiling everything. What do you recommend?

It must support full disk encryption, secure boot with signing with YOUR OWN KEYS, systemd (because of MullvadVPN), everything else I think can work on any distro (Gnome, podman, kvm, etc.).

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[–] biestander@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

Linux mint

[–] yum13241@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Arch supports all of those.

NixOS does too, but I don't believe Void does.

[–] supert@lemmy.sdfeu.org 1 points 2 years ago

Void, hands down, if you're halfway experienced. Nix is cool but complicated and quite unlike amy other system.

Except void doesn't have systemd, if you really need it, but it's easy to write your own runit routine.

[–] hottari@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

The secure boot implementations in Debian and Fedora trust kernel/modules with keys signed by Microsoft. Everything that you listed you want to do, you can do on Arch and with AUR you probably won't need to compile 99.9% of programs.

[–] humanplayer2@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

Vanilla OS 2 Orchid sounds very interesting, I think. It's in alpha now. Have a read about their package manager - it's kinda meta, allowing you to use other package managers in parallel.

[–] ferox@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago

Fedora 38

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