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Distro for experienced Linux user (monero.town)

submitted 1 year 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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[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

I'm a bit biased of course but you sound like you'd enjoy NixOS.

NixOS is immutable but quite a bit more tinkerable than Silverblue. Not quite Arch or Void levels of tinkering but this topic is not as black and white as it may seem.

secure boot with signing with YOUR OWN KEYS

Not yet in upstream NixOS but: https://github.com/nix-community/lanzaboote

systemd (because of MullvadVPN),

Unrelated to evangelising you into NixOS but I'm curious: Why does a VPN proxy software have any hard dependency on a process manager?

[–] chevy9294@monero.town 5 points 1 year ago

Why does a VPN proxy software have any hard dependency on a process manager?

Probably because of killswitch. App installs a service that manages internet and vpn access, the app is just a GUI for communicating with that service.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Can confirm NixOS is the shit. Can't imagine myself using anything else