Distro for experienced Linux user

Hi, I’m looking for a distro for my laptop. My first distro was Pop!_OS, then I switched to Fedora, then Arch for a year and 2 months ago I switched to Fedora Silverblue, because I wanted to try immutable distro that relies on containers and flatpaks to be usefull. Silverblue is great but not so much for me, its not flexible enough.

I’m thinking of switching to Arch but maybe it’s time for something else. Maybe NixOS or Void, Gentoo probably not, I don’t have time for compiling everything. What do you recommend?

It must support full disk encryption, secure boot with signing with YOUR OWN KEYS, systemd (because of MullvadVPN), everything else I think can work on any distro (Gnome, podman, kvm, etc.).

demesisx,
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Since I’m the NixOS guy, I recommend GUIX. 😉

Daeraxa,

I always wonder why GUIX seems to get left out vs NixOS

demesisx,
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If NixOS isn’t ready for mainstream work, GUIX is at least doubley so. It is SUPER white beard while IMO, even an idiot (👋🏼) can grasp NixOS.

Daeraxa,

I’ve not used either, just look on as a curious spectator, I’ve yet to leave the more idiot proof distros of mint and fedora. What makes it so hard to deal with vs nix?

demesisx,
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From what I hear, it’s a much newer and less popular project, so I expect it to be even more difficult than nix was for me.

caseyweederman,

NixOS isn’t coming very naturally to me. Just can’t quite grasp it.

demesisx,
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If you want, here’s my config. Feel free to fork it.

github.com/harryprayiv/nix-config (you’ll have the most luck with the “plutus_vm” machine config output in my flake at first since the main output in my config is somewhat obscured by encryption).

I also have a Nix-Darwin config that I haven’t consolidated into my main one:

github.com/harryprayiv/nix-darwin-config

caseyweederman,

That looks sharp, thank you.

demesisx,
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No problem. Real thanks goes to gvolpe who I forked my config from.

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