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   munir (munir@fedi.munir.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 05:16:25 JST munir
   what's the most no-frills linux distro fit for programming
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     munir (munir@fedi.munir.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 05:22:43 JST munir

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     • :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading:
     @m0xEE i meant something that is easy to use... I don't want to become 15yo Munir spending all day on Linux
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     :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading: (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 05:22:51 JST :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading:

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     Void fits the description I suppose — toolchains for rather obscure languages like Zig and Hare might not be in the repos (because Void supports a plethora of platforms, but e.g. Hare isn't even remotely there yet), but you can always build them yourself or download prebuilt binaries. Everything else is: Python, Rust, Go, CLang and GCC are very much up-to-date.
     Alpine might be a good choice too, but I've never used it myself, can't tell for sure.
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     munir (munir@fedi.munir.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 05:37:11 JST munir

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     • :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading:
     @m0xEE I meant something along the lines of Ubuntu or Linux Mint but ehh
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     :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading: (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 05:37:16 JST :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading:

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     Void is very low maintenance once you are comfortable with it — you don't have to update daily, you can do it once a year and it won't e.g. make you look at diff of every config file, or you can do it — in any case, things breaking badly is very rare and you can immediately roll back to the old version.
     If you don't run it on PowerPC machines like me, for which prebuilt binaries simply do not exist at all, you won't be servicing it daily at all — it's NOTHING like Gentoo! And believe me, I know what I'm talking about — I've been using it over a decade, but I won't recommend this piece of shit to anyone I don't hate with passion. Void is great compared to it.
     
     But yeah, getting used to it isn't something you spend one evening on — it's very different from nearly all mainstream distros. If you're not up to spending some time on initial familiarisation, it won't suit you — I won't even lie to you about it, even for me, who wasn't new neither to Linux, nor to UNIX systems in general, it look a month to get used to, and some more time to learn xbps-src, but now I even have my own set of patched and rebuild packages I want to be built differently myself.
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     munir (munir@fedi.munir.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 05:44:41 JST munir

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     • :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading:
     @m0xEE ehh fine ill try void or something, though @dushman has been trying to redpill me into Alpine Linux
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     :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading: (m0xee@breloma.m0xee.net)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 05:44:42 JST :marseyloadingneon: m0xEE :marseyloading:

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     Just use regular Ubuntu then, why bother, do a minimal netinstall, then install just the stuff you want.
     Check out PopOS — it seems to get good reviews and there is a company behind it, it's not supported by enthusiasts on their spare time — shouldn't be too bad, they've got to sell those laptops after all 🤷