Sunoc

Always advocating for that but Aeon Desktop (immutable OpenSUSE) has been great for me: rock solid base system, latest Gnome desktop, all the apps in Flatpak. Distrobox for all the terminal applications needs works better for me than the toolbox on systems like Silverblue. Give it a try!

Bold move to put a car between Street Fighters!

Cute gekko

Trisquel provides a good experience out of the box imo, as long as your hardware is supported and if you don’t mind the dated looking interface. I used it for a while on my corebooted laptop.

I didn’t used much any other “100% libre” distros. As much as I wanted to use it, I never managed to have Guix to run on that machine.

[edit:] to answer OP’s question, I would use a distro that ships with it.

Neat! I used it as well but I would rather use dwm or xfce recently.

Got it. Thanks you! I might actually get one and try to go immutable on it…

Aeon btw. Immutable, rolling, no bs. Everything in Flatlaks or Distrobox is really a killer combo imo.

Hell yeah, Alpine on older Thinkpads rules. What DE / WM are you using ?

Oh that’s an actually insightful answer! Thank you!

I don’t really have any issue with KDE, I’ve actually barely used it at all, I was merely trolling. It’s juste the “a lot of functionality at the expense of simplicity “ that doesn’t speaks to me in general. I understand the criticism against GNOME, however I got to really appreciate the effort they are putting in simplicity and integration. Once you get used to do things “the gnome way” , it’s really comfortable imo. I guess the same goes for any DE or WM.

I use Aeon btw, so of course I’m all in for using vanilla gnome!

GNOME is rock solid on my device, unlike KDE. What do you mean by that exactly?

The custom kernel situation looks kinda tricky indeed. What parts are not working without it?

Im considering an old surface go as well

Can you don’t?

1. OpenSuse / Aeon Desktop
2. Alpine
3. NixOS
4. Garuda
5. Guix System
6. Source Mage

HELL naw

Nooo not the pinky ! :(

This, but Emacs

Alpine works great for the desktop and I’m using it myself for my lower end machine.

Working without glibc and with some strangly named packages is sometimes tricky, but so far I have been able to do anything I’d wanted!

If it can help you in your journey, here is my personal configuration for Alpine, with WMs and DEs on their own branches. Only the ‘suckless’ (DWM) and ‘xfce’ are working properly so far: https://gitlab.com/sunoc/als/-/tree/suckless?ref_type=heads

Great list! Thanks for sharing!

Kurwa