It's my yearly cleanup day, when I fully nuke down my windows installation, to clean out all the installed trash and residue.

Have moved all important data and I will be ready to fully refresh my computer as soon as it syncs, heres the question though.

I decided this time I'll create a dev vm, so I can just each time reset to point 0 and also because I miss having local development.

What new linux distros or flavours are out there that would be worth looking at? (I saw things like ubuntu budgie being mentioned)

If you use it and it doesnt break if I sneeze, mention it, I am open to getting to know other environments, even if its not my usual debian homeplace.

Void Linux is my personal preference. It uses runit instead of systemd (or what ever the other init system is called. I already forgot ^^) and is super lightweight. It takes up about 100MB RAM when booted and a few terminals opened (not sure how it looks if you use other wms than i3)

@b3b3 Can't say anything about Void Linux but if you run Alpine with XFCE instead of i3 the Ram utilization doesn't rise a lot, it still stays below 200MB in idle iirc.

But Void Linux looks nice too, seems like Alpine with rolling release and less complicated install.

@teganburns I am somewhat afraid that arch is a bit too bleeding for me, as many have said recently from trying it, that you have to maintain it a lot and if you dont spare enough time for it, it can break after having not updated for too long etc. I would be able to give Arch distros a try, but not vanilla Arch, as even if its just a VM, I feel I can't put as much effort towards Arch as it needs.

@JonnyCodewalker ah, solus, heard that somewhere, put it on the list, I did try elementary in the past already and it wasnt much different from say.. ubuntu with gnome and that one dock plugin and window theme.

@b3b3 that could come in handy, because then I could also easily install it on my small laptop, what repos does it take? since it seems not to be based on anything.

@teganburns nice aliases 😄

But besides that, I like usually being on stable or atleast semi stable branches, because that allows me to just install packages without having to worry that all of the sudden it pulls in some newer version of another package and breaks everything that is still on the old package, its too much to fiddle for me I feel.

@JoshBent everything I need to work is in the repo. And if you need something really hard you can actually create your own package for it so its available from xbps (the pacman of void)