I've started playing with Chimera Linux. Super interesting hybrid between BSD-like systems (ports, BSD-derived userland tools) and the Linux kernel, with neat design choices like LLVM compiler instead of gcc and musl C instead of glibc. I think of it as a next-gen Void Linux.
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I was drawn to Nix because it addressed panic points I'd long had with system administration:
- Ad hoc notes listing interactive commands needed to get a system up and running
- Underspecified versions of software making reproducibility impossible
- Implicit environment dependencies of well-intentioned bash scripts
- etc
Then I had the experience that contributing to nixpkgs was surprisingly easy despite me never having contributed to another large distribution before, and I was sold.
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. It's like Fedora but consumes 4W less, which in my laptop basically doubles the battery life. Zypper is even worse than dnf though, and I didn't think that such a thing was possible.