> Arch Linux [1], Void Linux [2], Alpine Linux [3]
Gentoo is feeling left out. It's the OG distro for those who have strong opinions on how their system sould work but not strong enough to do eveything by hand.
wegs reminded me experience with Ubuntu. I've started with GNOME, tried XFCE, Openbox, system become brittle and it raised questions like "How to configure WiFi without DE?".
I've switched to Arch Linux, base install covers network configuration. It gave me stable platform, I can grow my knowledge, I can fix my system.
Void Linux and Alpine Linux are just examples of what could match voiced concerns. I lot of people recommend Manjaro, looks like a simple way to try Arch based distro. Some problems stem from upgrading release, Debian Testing could help. But I have not tried them.
I've tried Ubuntu, I don't like distribution upgrades, default theme, constant experiments on users. Gentoo is my first distro, as C++ dev at that time, compilation was fascinating. I still enjoy 3 commands joke [1], looks like it is possible to install binary packages these days. I've tried Alpine, I don't like apk, systemd and glibc are good enough for me. I've tried OpenBSD, hardware support was not as good as on Linux. I'm playing with NixOS but I am so used to Arch.
And I want to stress, each of these system has something I enjoy. It is just me who is driven by minimizing negative points.
Gentoo is feeling left out. It's the OG distro for those who have strong opinions on how their system sould work but not strong enough to do eveything by hand.