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I know I know, another "help me choose a distro" thread (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm wondering if a distro like the one I'm looking for even exists:

simple as in KISS and vanilla. This excludes Debian where the package manager is too complex and packages deviate from upstream too much, as well as OpenSUSE, where systems administration relies on GUI tools too much and the package manager is even more complex.
fixed release (excludes everything Arch-based)

So from the major distros, only Fedora is left as an option, where I really don't know enough about it. Is it possible to do a minimal install of it? Is it built around a GUI app store? Does it rely on Flatpak like Ubuntu does with Snap?

Or are there other distros out there that I'm not aware of? Basically everything from the past 5 years I have no experience with. I've heard good things about NixOS, but it sounds weird as a daily driver.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Seriously though, in Debian you just type ‘sudo apt install program,’ that is about as simple as it gets.

I know apt is easy to use, but it definitely isn't SIMPLE.

It has apt, apt-get, aptitude, synaptic and an app store as frontends, and some of them handle dependencies differently or work differently in scripts, so you need to know which to use and avoid mixing them. It has recommended and suggested dependencies. It has meta-packages, virtual packages, package groups, different repo branches seperated into categories. It has blacklisting, apt-pinning, holding back packages. You can set how aggressively it should resolve dependencies and it allows mixing releases.
I know I can do the most basic stuff with "apt update" etc. but try creating a package with dependencies for it and then maintain it across releases.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Good point with the various frontends, but please refer to my edit.