What Linux Operating Systems do you like?

Throrik said:
been playing around with Alpine with musl etc
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As much as i love Alpine it seems to be a pain like Arch linux that there always seems to something that needs to be installed or configured for even the most simple things.

Samba , ntfs‑3g for example that you just take for granted on full glibc desktops like Ubuntu, and if you can't find a Musl work around and have to use flatpaks for glibc then the bloat and flatpak latency sort of makes musl pointless.

Yet saying that, there is something sort addictive about Alpine linux. :)
 
Retro6 said:
I'm also looking for a desktop OS that can run Zello which is an Android app that will be on 24/7 that will be running an internet linked radio repeater. I've tried things like Android x86 but not reliable.
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Is this a private channel as i thought Zello died years ago?
 
Throrik said:
Kali overall is a bit of an odd choice - it's very much designed to be a pentest/ceh distro - not that you can't frankenstein any distro into anything. I also highly disagree with Linux being mostly aimed at newer hardware, maybe if you want to run DEs which are badly optimised, have more animations than a Pixar movie and are so incredibly bloated that they have a role in the Nutty Professor movie. My Debian still boots <150MiB of memory. Also been playing around with Alpine with musl etc, that's well under <100MiB. But again not necessarily aimed at desktop usage.

I'll probably always recommend Debian Stable for Linux because it's just stable, but depends completely on if you're running bleeding edge hardware, as it does cater for stability and not cutting edge. I've never had any problems but my hardware is all getting a bit long in the tooth anyway.
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I do like Kali because it offers some useful tools, but a Debian stable light weight basic minimal desktop environment with essentials & driver support without the unnecessary bloat & eye candy would be most ideal.
 
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Ice Tea said:
As much as i love Alpine it seems to be a pain like Arch linux that there always seems to something that needs to be installed or configured for even the most simple things.

Samba , ntfs‑3g for example that you just take for granted on full glibc desktops like Ubuntu, and if you can't find a Musl work around and have to use flatpaks for glibc then the bloat and flatpak latency sort of makes musl pointless.

Yet saying that, there is something sort addictive about Alpine linux. :)
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The sad reality of my life is that I use basically nothing with a hard requirement on glibc haha. I'm not hardcore anti-systemd or anything, but having all the tools easily available to run another init system is also nice. I just like niche alternatives. Alpine, OpenBSD I think I'll have to do some Slackware or GNU Hurd soon.
 
Throrik said:
The sad reality of my life is that I use basically nothing with a hard requirement on glibc haha. I'm not hardcore anti-systemd or anything, but having all the tools easily available to run another init system is also nice. I just like niche alternatives. Alpine, OpenBSD I think I'll have to do some Slackware or GNU Hurd soon.
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Sounds like you do some interesting things. I've been looking into OpenBSD for OpenSMTPD (I know it is available on other platforms but feel it would be easier to use on OpenBSD. Also firewalls etc.
 
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