Debian, Arch, Gentoo, OpenBSD, or FreeBSD?

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Gentoo. Install it.

FreeBSD was a blast to install and compile everything for. But once I got everything working I started noticing things that were missing. Like WIDEVINE for watching the video streaming that comes with Amazon Prime or Netflix. Or Steam Play, or Steam at all (couldn't get it working with Linux compatibility, but did sort of have a few games working via wine).

Gentoo seems like it would be almost as fun as FreeBSD (except gcc is less fun for me than clang for some reason), and you could get the necessary proprietary bits like WIDEVINE that are only on Linux/Windows/Mac (just not on any *BSD). But it's a meme so I haven't installed it. People tell me it's awesome though.

The mere mention of OpenBSD will bring in a copypasta drone who will spout things like "the filesystem is a joke" and "remote holes in default install is a stupid metric", but I honestly like OpenBSD. I have nvidia though (unfortunately) so no good driver, I'll consider it on my laptop I'm getting. But the same stuff about lack of WIDEVINE or Steam exists that exists with FreeBSD.

Arch is a great distro for up to date packages and the availablility of software in the AUR. But at the cost of instability (not necessarily crashing, rather changes to functionality with new version of software). I recommended Manjaro to a newb who wanted the latest stuff (he was interested in nvidia driver 396) when he complained in #debian.

Which brings me to Debian. My favourite distro, the one I am currently using and feel like I'll stick with for a long time unless I get distrohopping fever again (last month was *bad*). I grew up on Knoppix and Ubuntu, so I like the familiarity of apt, my hands still type the - after sudo apt to type apt-get even though it's deprecated, and all the commands are intuitive to me. I like having newer packages so I'm running sid instead of testing/stable, so I get stuff like the latest GNOME (which has problems, alas) and KDE+blur (which I'm currently running).

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fuck off kevin

This.

Debian is very easy to install now, and it offers a bunch of releases that could interest you. For a desktop, I'd recommend going for Debian unstable (sid), since the stable version doesn't support anything past ~2017 and the testing version is generally more prone to breaking than unstable.
Gentoo and Arch are both not as hard to install as you'd think, but Gentoo takes much longer to install since you need to compile everything. Install either of those if you'd generally want to get more involved with your system (don't get me wrong, the distros have huge differences, they just serve a similar purpose).
OpenBSD is even more of a dinosaur OS than Debian stable, but it's extremely secure and has a great team supporting it. It's also great if you want something closer to UNIX I suppose.

What's the KDE equivalent of tilix? Any other tiling terminals that you'd recommend?

Void

Manjaro

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