For me it’s PeppermintOS.

I started my Linux adventure a few years ago, and haven’t owned a Windows PC since.

I currently use Arch on my main rig, and I wanted to install Linux on two old laptops that I found laying around in my house

I then remembered the first distro I ever used, which is PeppermintOS, and I was amazed at the latest updates they released.

They even have a mini ISO now to do a net-install with no bloat, with a Debian or Devuan base.

Sadly, I believe the founder passed away a few years ago, which is why I was really happy to see the continuation of this amazing project.

  • @[email protected]English
    1•1 year ago

    the most important feature of NixOS for me is reproducibility

    Reproducibility is a big topic for Guix developers and users as well, just have a look at how many times they talk about that: https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2022/07/is-reproducibility-practical/

    Also correct me if I’m wrong but I think Guix goes further on reproducibility than Nix, because everything they package is from source, whereas my understanding is that a lot of Nix packages are built from binaries.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•1 year ago

      Guix does have great reproducability. The person I was replying to was recommending people use distrobox for software that isn’t packaged, I was saying that isn’t reproducible.

      The very large majority of nixpkgs is built from source, but there are a few apps that can’t be built for whatever reason. This is still reproducible because it fetches a tagged version of the software and checks it against a hash.

      • @aramus
        1•1 year ago

        Yes, that’s true. You lose reproducibility by using distrobox. But so far I did not need distrobox on my Guix laptop, the nonguix repo was enough. It was just a suggestion for somebody caring more about availability of packages than reproducibility to use Guix as the stable base and distrobox on top.