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Help! Looking for a new distro (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by hddsx@lemmy.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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Requirements:

Must be more user friendly than LFS
Must not be in the RHEL/IBM family/stream or derivative
Must not be SLES or derivative
Does not make you install a desktop environment
Must have steam

Hopes

Rolling release
Has a package manager of some sort
Doesn’t require manual intervention every six months
Maintainers aren’t psycho

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Debian. Set it to stable instead of trixie and it's kind of a rolling release. Testing if you want newer versions. You won't get breakage unless you use sid.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Does that have issues? Part of the reason I’m looking for a rolling release is way back in the late 2000’s, you could upgrade Ubuntu but things always broke and so you might as well reinstall

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've not had issues doing distro upgrades in a long time, and I mess with my systems a lot. There's been a lot of progress in 15+ years, and Debian is usually pretty good about keeping stuff working.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

I suppose if time has indeed passed by 15 years I could give it another shot. I’m moving my mail server from bookworm to trixie by… getting another VPS, testing out configs against trixie, then switching over

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