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Am upgrading from thinkpad to framework 16 with amd. Looking for distro reccommendations. (lemm.ee)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/linux
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I did the whole distro chooser quiz but didnt help much.

Heres the things id like to hit

  • avoid systemd
  • stable
  • Wayland support
  • Minimal packages
  • no immutable (seems like to much of a pain)
  • full disk encryption but thats pretty standard nowdays.

Was going to go with devuan but the debian flavours dont have a stable with wayland yet. I was considering going with a testing or unstable build but would like to avoid headaches on a daily driver. Is testing/unstable got wayland and are they reliable enough? If so what do I go with.

Also hows the hardware comparability with framework i assume it wont be too bad to get set up.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Void is an option that seems like a good fit, but you'd need to figure out if it supports your hardware well since the hardware is so new. Its a stable rolling release that uses runit which seems like a lot of peoples favorite alternative init system.

Fedora is maybe also worth considering but it uses systemd. Not sure if it has minimal packages, but I'm pretty sure fedora has official Framework support, including for the 16, and strikes a really good balance between having current packages and cutting edge hardware support, and being stable.

Also, sorry people are ignoring what you said you want and are telling you what you should want instead ๐Ÿ˜… not helpful y'all.

My impression is that Debian unstable/testing is generally considered much more stable than arch, I assume that extends to devuan. But I think they also share packages, which means packages have been patched a ton, which it sounds like you don't want (I assume that's what you meant by "mininal packages")