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I have a 1TB harddrive on my desktop computer that isn't doing much of anything, so I'd like to dual-boot something "interesting". Suggestions are greatly appreciated, so let me know what y'all find intriguing/interesting/frustrating/innovative.

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[–] MajorHavoc 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

It's really hard to go wrong with Debian.

That's my safe answer.

If you share more about your interests, hobbies, I might have other ideas.

I suppose, when in doubt, there's always Linux From Scratch. It's a very interesting experience.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Except Debian is neither interesting nor innovative.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Debian is the Volvo of Linux distros.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] towerful 4 points 6 months ago

Unimogs are exciting

[–] MajorHavoc 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Except Debian is neither interesting nor innovative.

How dare you!? /s

Yeah. Good point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

It's very premise is the polar opposite of interesting or innovative. It's pretty much the white bread of Linux: incredibly bland, but will fit into everything that requires bread.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I have another drive with Mint installed that I used as my daily do-things OS. For this, I'd like to devote a separate 1TB drive to something weird or interesting.