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I have a 'spare' Dell Latitude 7390 (Core i5 9gb ) on this machine. My production machine runs Debian with KDE.

What might be an interesting distro for me to try out on my spare machine?

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[–] waspentalive@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

11/01 morning Update: Arch with 3 votes. NixOS with 2 votes, Alpine, Void, Kinoite, Open Suse each with 1 vote.

I would probably want a cheater install of Arch, that way it may be less work.

I have been interested in Kinoite in the past. I have also been interested in Suse because of their admin application Yast(?)

Isn't Alpine downstream from Arch? That might count as another vote for Arch.. : ^ )

[–] Knusper@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Nah, Alpine is independent. It's one of the more popular non-GNU/Linux distros.