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Discussion on: What is your favorite Linux distro

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Austin S. Hemmelgarn

For personal systems, I preferentially use Gentoo because I'm really picky about what I have installed and how the system is configured, and Gentoo gives you a lot of control over what actually gets installed and makes almost zero assumptions about how the system is configured. I've toyed with Arch/Manjaro before, but really don't like pacman for a number of reasons.

Depending on the exact use case though, I'll also use Debian (often but not always Sid, which I've actually never had any issues with), Alpine (when I need a tightly secured minimalist system) or on rare occasion a custom environment produced using Buildroot when I need a highly specific system and don't mind rebuilding the world to run updates.

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Fulton Browne

Your a linux genius :]