Hey fellow Linux enthusiasts! I’m curious to know if any of you use a less popular, obscure or exotic Linux distribution. What motivated you to choose that distribution over the more mainstream ones? I’d love to hear about your experiences and any unique features or benefits that drew you to your chosen distribution.
“for me they mostly stemmed from the immutability of it” 😱 😱 someone saying that immutably OSes are crap. I can’t believe what I’m reading 😂 Related discussion: https://lemmy.world/comment/4571828
For some things, they suck. Even NixOS, with its incredible flexibility compared to something like Silverblue, sucks for some things. For example, a Linux-only piece of software I need for University. The supported way to install it, is to download the archive from the university website and unpack it into your root directory, where it will install itself and its dependencies under /usr. You can’t exactly do that on an Immutable distro. And I tried to make it work locally, but then in the end, after it didn’t, I just gave up.