[dev] Linux distros that don't suck too too much

From: Nick <suckless-dev_AT_njw.me.uk>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 11:56:41 +0100

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?

Nick

0. https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/41085.html
1.
https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2016/02/01/on-webkit-security-updates/
2. http://morpheus.2f30.org
Received on Wed May 11 2016 - 12:56:41 CEST

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