During the first impressions of said distro, what feature surprised you the most?

  • matcha_addict
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    2 months ago

    So many distributions impressed me, but I think gentoo, nixos, Guix and Alpine impressed me most. Maybe Zorin with its beautiful design for newcomers.

    If I had to pick one, it may be Alpine. The idea of having a fully usable OS with so little is really impressive. It even has a fully functional build system similar to Arch’s ABS (on which the AUR is based)

    Gentoo, nixos and Guix are really impressive and make computing a pleasant activity.

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      2 months ago

      I have fond memories of doing Stage 1 gentoo installs. Not that I did them often, but what a great learning process.

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        2 months ago

        Oh wow that’s awesome! With containers or on bare metal?

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          2 months ago

          I run jellyfin on bare metal because it makes it easier to debug imo, but I do use docker for caddy and some other little applications (like a tomcat instance for example)

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            2 months ago

            Poke around with Caddy on bare metal Idk if it is something I was doing or just placebo from my head, but Caddy is a lot faster on bare than Docker in Alpine Tho the drawback is having to manually set-up logging if you need (otherwise g’luck with whatever it decides to throw at syslog)