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AENS System (usually November) @aens@transfem.social
2mo
Distro recommendations requested So, I'm going to be getting a laptop to put Linux on in probably about two months, and I'm starting to think about what sort of distro I might want to run on it, just so I can start figuring things out in a VM. Plan is to run some sort of River-based tiling WM, not sure which yet.
Hard requirements:
-I need to be able to game on it easily and without doing everything via flatpak (so basically has to be glibc)
-I'm still not super experienced with Linux, so in terms of setup and especially maintenance it needs to be at most as hard as Arch.
-Full disc encryption and non-systemd are required, but doing stuff in a chroot to get them set up is okay
Preferences:
Good docs
Not having to do a chroot install for full disc encryption and avoiding systemd
Not having to uninstall whatever DE it ships with
High stability
The less required flatpak use, the better

Currently my main thought is Void, I've used it before and I like it, but let me know if there are any other cool distros I'm missing that'd be good to consider.
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walnut 🌱 @walnut@thesoftestpaws.net
2mo
re: Distro recommendations requested, uses musl @aens
I've been pretty happy with chimera-linux which uses dinit and I think hits every requirement besides glibc. I game pretty successfully with flatpaks though, both with steam and lutris. Not my preferred solution either but a compromise I was willing to make.

It does require chroot to setup, but the install guide is thorough and I was able to setup zfs on root with luks encryption from their documentation alone.

chimera-linux.org

Bonus: They are anti llm and very gay
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gts.chimera-linux.org/@chimera/statuses/01JZ09G0ECDFRFX9J3ME0WRFX1
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