For me it’s PeppermintOS.

I started my Linux adventure a few years ago, and haven’t owned a Windows PC since.

I currently use Arch on my main rig, and I wanted to install Linux on two old laptops that I found laying around in my house

I then remembered the first distro I ever used, which is PeppermintOS, and I was amazed at the latest updates they released.

They even have a mini ISO now to do a net-install with no bloat, with a Debian or Devuan base.

Sadly, I believe the founder passed away a few years ago, which is why I was really happy to see the continuation of this amazing project.

  • priapus@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Guix does have great reproducability. The person I was replying to was recommending people use distrobox for software that isn’t packaged, I was saying that isn’t reproducible.

    The very large majority of nixpkgs is built from source, but there are a few apps that can’t be built for whatever reason. This is still reproducible because it fetches a tagged version of the software and checks it against a hash.

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      1 year ago

      Yes, that’s true. You lose reproducibility by using distrobox. But so far I did not need distrobox on my Guix laptop, the nonguix repo was enough. It was just a suggestion for somebody caring more about availability of packages than reproducibility to use Guix as the stable base and distrobox on top.