I use Debian flavors for my daily drivers. I have no complaints, no real desire to switch it up on that front.

However, I am starting to get into self-hosting and homelab projects. I’d like to start test driving some light-weight distros of a different flavor.

I’d prefer a GUI be available, but the environment and WM is pretty inconsequential-- except it shouldn’t be bloated. I’ll install any additional apps I want, I don’t need a curated mid-to-heavy-weight distro.

The plan is to make heavy use of Docker images, to try to maintain a clean and modular setup of services. If that makes any difference.

Suggestions? Any slim distros you’re just gaga for?

  • Vilian
    1·
    7 months ago

    except fedora atomic you can upgrate every machine at the same time

    • bizdelnick@lemmy.ml
      2·
      7 months ago

      This does not mean that you won’t have troubles because of new software bugs or incompatibilities with old configs.

      • Vilian
        1·
        7 months ago

        same thing with debian

        edit: actually no, because every config from app is created from zero, so meanwhile debian the same config stay on your machine until you reinstall fedora atomic you can compare your configuration for what you changed in your /etc

        • bizdelnick@lemmy.ml
          1·
          7 months ago

          Have you ever upgraded debian? If both local config and default config have changed, it suggests you review the changes and choose which config to use or merge it manually.