Hi, I’m looking for a distro for my laptop. My first distro was Pop!_OS, then I switched to Fedora, then Arch for a year and 2 months ago I switched to Fedora Silverblue, because I wanted to try immutable distro that relies on containers and flatpaks to be usefull. Silverblue is great but not so much for me, its not flexible enough.

I’m thinking of switching to Arch but maybe it’s time for something else. Maybe NixOS or Void, Gentoo probably not, I don’t have time for compiling everything. What do you recommend?

It must support full disk encryption, secure boot with signing with YOUR OWN KEYS, systemd (because of MullvadVPN), everything else I think can work on any distro (Gnome, podman, kvm, etc.).

  • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    9 months ago

    I use debian as my absolute base and build lxc containers for everything above that with my own kernel, works for me.

    I set my own complexity, but debian also doesn’t get in my way which works for me.

    Ubuntu container for dev work (c++ mostly), arch container for some stuff, few vms for private data.

    • nakal@kbin.social
      10·
      9 months ago

      Sooner or later everyone will find their way to Debian. It’s boring and it works.

      • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Oh sorry that was badly written, I compile my own kernel and run lxc on top of that, with debian base userspace otherwise.

        Then kvm on top for really different stuff.

        For my server it’s debian on the bottom with zfs file serving raidz2, and on top of that 1 kvm for debian docker containers, and 1 kvm for freebsd jails which actually hosts most of the services I care about, docker is fallback if they’re a pain to set up.