I need some help with choosing a distro

[maiden ferry]

So ive been distrohopping for quite some time now, i can ude linux pretty profficiently im just not knowledgeable on the tech behind it much but i just cant seem to have a "good" experience on any distro considering i get the most esoteric and weird issues that plague me.

So i would like for some people to properly give me a rundown on some distros and like their differences from something like arch, and ill name what ive tried so far and give explanations. I kinda just want something thats good and lightweight but also stable i dont want shit to perma break. But i also am not as techy as most in this server so would yall give me like a proper rundown on the pros and cons?

Debian: it was pretty meh and funnily enough didnt have too stable of an experience considering readding "silent splash" to the grub file straight up removed the package manager from existance somehow so i dont like debian

Arch: vannila arch is probably one of the best bets i have right now but making an install script and all is something entirely new to me but i do like arch for its features tis why im using a derivative rn

OpenSUSE: also one of my best bets considering how ive had a decent experience with it OTHER than a few gaming problems but other than that yast is a lovely tool, just havent had too much experience with it.

Ubuntu: was my first but i think you all know why i dont really wanna use that anymore lol

Mint: a little too basic and "newbie" focused for me plus i want to experiment with some wms such as hyprland which it is absolutely not suited for

Nix: seems pretty cool other than the fact that configuring it is much harder imo than any other i couldnt get most shit to run well but i dont have that much experience with it either

Garuda & Endeavour: currently using endeavour just having a taste of the arch derivatives because i havent used linux in a while. They seem decent but dont really fit my taste that much and a little bloated for me

I think ive tried more but i cant remember rn

[thin goblet]

try fedora KDE

works_on_my_machine

[maiden ferry]

Hmh might aswell

[dire spade]

wdym good and lightweight but also stable ? because you mention that OpenSUSE has a few gaming problems.
could you share more about the purpose of choosing your linux distro? what will you be using it for?

[maiden ferry]

I want a nice daily driver

Not something like mint or ubuntu and so on because theyre bloated for me

Something more lightweight

And i couldnt run war thunder on openSUSE no matter what but thats long gone and i just need a distro that wont break

Ive distrohopped so many times and idk what to choose xd

[dire spade]

so i recommend Void Linux

[maiden ferry]

Funky

Why?

Ive heard of it a lot ill try it

Ooop i586 isnt supported and thats my architecture xd

[north tiger]

just use arch, uvsaid its thr best best bet and ur already using endevour os

[maiden ferry]

I actually never installed arch myself lol so yeah

[torn seal]

i wrote a whole thing for this https://infradragon.com/linuxguide

its a good place to find new distros to try

i see you haven't tried fedora yet, ultramarine linux is a great introduction to fedora

not sure how you removed the file manager by running update-grub on debian stable )i assume) but you can try out debian testing, it's quite reliable and has a good package base

if you want to go niche there's solus

or void linux

or alt linux

really the only difference between distros are the repos and the installer

sometimes a distro will customize a desktop environment but its nothing that cant be replicated

you're not going to notice a huge difference between distros with the same desktop environment

[maiden ferry]

Yeah

[torn seal]

some interesting desktop environments would be enlightenment, cinnamon, budgie, and maybe icewm

im assuming you've already used xfce and kde

[maiden ferry]

I wont be using DE's

[torn seal]

oh are you just using the TTY

[torn seal]

what's your use case

[maiden ferry]

Just a daily driver for basic stuff xd

Need it for my old laptop

[torn seal]

with no desktop?

i mean you could get a better terminal experience with something like kitty and cage

[maiden ferry]

Preferably a wm

[torn seal]

tiling?

[maiden ferry]

Yes

[torn seal]

if you want to try a new wm there's jay

its on the aur

actively developed and supports a ton of the wayland protocols

im using it on a chromebook

it would probably go well with quickshell

[maiden ferry]

Hm alr

[torn seal]

im using it with limine (bootloader), s6 (init system, using artix), and the uutils coreutils

and the ly display manager

its a very interesting experience

[maiden ferry]

Lol alr

I dont really know the difference between any of those things btw

Nor do they mean anything to me

Im not very knowledgeable on that

[torn seal]

eh it doesnt matter all that much

[maiden ferry]

I just use the defaults cuz it doesnt really matter to me

[torn seal]

all distros are all packaging the same software from the same people at the end of the day

[maiden ferry]

Ig

I just wanna choose a final distro to be on and rice the fuck out of it

[torn seal]

if you want high maintainence i'd do arch or for low maintainence i'd do opensuse tumbleweed

[maiden ferry]

Yeah

But ill try more just for fun

[torn seal]

i have one arch (cachyos) device and everything else is opensuse tumbleweed

except for that chromebook

[maiden ferry]

As per your tag

Lol

@torn seal also really cool website you have

Its really nice