post some distros, that are not widley known but worth a try. i'll start with antergos:
>arch-based
>lightweight
>installer updates itself every time you plug it in
>one installer for all desktop options
>sane defaults
with Xfce the perfect distro for my X220. what's your tipp?
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Why would I use it over Debian?
>launches the installer
>crashes
if you're happy with debian, you probably won't. for linux-starters it's a great entry point without all the bloat of traditional starter distros and with an braindead easy installer.
I've never used it but alpine linux based on the ethos and name
But Debian is just as easy
yes and no. if you want to get into debian, you're confronted with a shitload of documentation and an ncurses installer (at least the last time i played around with it). starters might get scared away by it. antergos is basically just "put the installer on a usb-stick, reboot your machine, enter a network and press 'ok' five times and you're set".
>antergos
>lesser known
If you want lesser known, look at something like GNU Herd
>arch-based
>lightweight
Nice oxymoron
antergos is rarley mentioned on Jow Forums since manjaro is the more popular spin-off. my intention with this thread was to collect recommendations for lesser known and/or smaller distros by people who actually used them.
default Xfce installation is like 750 packages after i installed some extras.
>750 packages
not him but do you know how bloated arch packages are? 750 is literally an arch gnome install
Void Linux.
it still happens?
i remember antergos as very aesthetic distros for every DE, but this cinci thing was damn unstable
>but this cinci thing was damn unstable
never had the problem, but i'm using it just for about a year now.
great in all, but its best you write your own arch install script instead as this thing crashes every time
LXLE is quite nice for old devices. Hope they continue doing their own thing, now that Lubuntu shifts toward LXQt and not primarily focussing on dated hardware.
That's because antergos is just arch.
My X220 only runs Openbox well. So it has Bunsenlabs, which makes it look more 1337 along with the stickers. I swear that was not intentional
can confirm, i have this running on my almost 10 year old dell mini 9 as a emergency backup.
>lightweight
Antergos installs so much fucking bloat, I wouldn't even think to use that word.
MXLinux
Linux. Why? Because eventually you realize all distros are autistic and retarded and you make YOUR own "distro".
Wonder why I didn't put GNU? Because you don't need the GNU userland as there are various alternatives. This is what distros don't want you to know.
>he doesn't use Busybox/Linux
>all distros are autistic
>make YOUR own "distro".
making your own distro sound pretty autistic, user
>ethos
>Our goal is to maintain a safe, helpful and friendly Alpine community for everyone, regardless of individuality such as experience, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, nationality or any other protected categories under applicable law.
My daily driver
Scientific Linux / CERN CentOS
I'd like to interje-
FUCK
ArchLabs Linux
it just works
>everything is autistic
>time to make more autistic distros
Any BSD fork > (((GNU/Linux)))
Alpine is pretty based. Initial install just has everything you need to get started.
Extremely small foot print, extremely secure, and stable.
The only downside is how much configuration it requires.
If you're going to go with arch - easymode, Manjaro is streets ahead.
A smart and competant unix-like fan probably has multiple BSD and linux distros. I'm not sure why people shill things... its all free.
Alpine is my new favorite linux distro. It feels more like OpenBSD in that services are off/not installed by default and theres more configuration/RTFM required. But the trade off is a smaller vulnerability footprint and a smaller cleaner system.
This. I run 2 solaris based boxes one of which is a smartos hypervisor with several linux and bsd zones/kms and a pfsense router/firewall.
Bsd is harder to configure for a lot of things. Specifically dynamic www shit which inherently goes against the unix philosophy. Imagine setting up nextcloud or rutorrent on OpenBSD.
Antergos is nice but cnchi is a fucking bitch
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