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I'm finding Ubuntu Long Term Stable to be a bit lacking in the Stable part lately. Thinking about switching and decided to #asknostr what #linux distros are recommended these days.

Debian seems like the obvious transition. What else is there? I want to be able to tinker when I want to tinker but I also want it to just keep working the way I left it in between uses. Ubuntu has been too crashy. I've been a linux user for decades so I'm not interested in a full grandma safe hand hold first time away from windows distro.

Lots of forum posts equals solid LLM help for my tinkering, so size of userbase is being considered.
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Skhron - VPS for Bitcoin, Lightning and Monero 10mo ago

Gentoo and NixOS might be an option, but it is way more advanced and I am not sure if it isn't an overkill for your case.

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Vivi Nella Verita 10mo ago

i use gentoo . debian was too stale to run more recent softwar elike notedeck

gentoo even can do binary package smostly

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Neigsendoig Cocules 10mo ago

Wouldn't one have to build everything from source when using Gentoo? That's the part I don't really like about that right now. That's why I use CachyOS, despite it using systemd.

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Bill Cypher 10mo ago

I tried gentoo once over 20 years ago. Too much tinkering just to get by back then and I ended up on Arch for ages.

Arch rolling releases got to be too much reading docs with random breaking changes that required manual intervention. That was years ago too.

They may both be more daily driver friendly now.