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Niche Distro Users: Why? (lemmy.ml)
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I occasionally see love for niche small distros, instead of the major ones...

And it just seems to me like there's more hurdles than help when it comes to adopting an OS whose users number in the hundreds or dozens. I can understand trying one for fun in a VM, but I prefer sticking to the bigger distros for my daily drivers since the they'll support more software and not be reliant on upstream sources, and any bugs or other issues are more likely to be documented abd have workarounds/fixes.

So: What distro do you daily drive and why? What drove you to choose it?

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[-] cizra@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago

Declarative system configuration is the killer feature of NiOS. Atomic rollbacks too. Versioning the whole mess in Git, too.

[-] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 months ago

I'd say nix is hardly niche at this point (although I'm biased cause I use it a ton)

There's even a termux fork these days that runs nix on droid

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