cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/35084396
Hej lemmings!
Quick question for you all: do you stick with the same distro across your PC, laptop, and server, or do you pick different ones based on the device and what you’re doing?
For me, I’ve been mixing and matching depending on the use case, but I’m starting to think it’d be nice to just have one distro (or at least one family like Fedora or Debian) running everywhere. That way I wouldn’t get confused about default settings or constantly have to look up flags for different package managers.
Right now my setup is:
- Gaming rig: CachyOS
- Laptop: AuroraOS
- NAS: Unraid
- Various project servers: DietPi, Debian, Alpine etc…
I feel like NixOS might be the only distro that could realistically handle all these use cases, but I’m a bit scared of the learning curve and the maintenance work it’d take to migrate everything over.
Am I the only one who feels like having “one distro to rule them all” would be nice? How do you guys handle your setups? All ears! 😊
I’m running openSUSE Tumbleweed on all my desktop and laptop at the moment because it’s pretty stable (barring the recent SELinux issues that seem to be a regular occurrence). I don’t mind that there are a lot of distros, because there are a lot of people with different needs. Given there is so much freedom in the Linux scene, unlike the constrained Windows or MacOS world…You’ll never see a one true distro. As consolidating that much effort and money into one thing is how you get yet another Windows or MacOS but Linux flavored. I hope to continue to see a variety of distros (that can suit different use cases).
Personally, I am even planning on learning NixOS because it is one of those distros that is highly flexible and can be run on multiple machines…Yet be replicated to a tee, with a bit of effort and correctly building Flakes and Config files. To that end, I’m going to learn a scripting language in order to get familiar with it before trying to learn Nix’s declarative language that would be used to create the Flakes and Configs necessary for system replication. Never be scared to learn!