Requirements:

  • Must be more user friendly than LFS
  • Must not be in the RHEL/IBM family/stream or derivative
  • Must not be SLES or derivative
  • Does not make you install a desktop environment
  • Must have steam

Hopes

  • Rolling release
  • Has a package manager of some sort
  • Doesn’t require manual intervention every six months
  • Maintainers aren’t psycho
  • who@feddit.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    This is an unusual combination of requirements:

    • Does not make you install a desktop environment
    • Must have steam

    I guess maybe you’re planning to use the same distro for a server and a gaming system? Debian can do that. I recommend enabling Debian Backports on the gaming system, for access to recent kernel/firmware/mesa packages (you pick which ones you need).

    By the way, markdown ate your list formatting because you didn’t put a space between the - and the text.

    • hddsx@lemmy.caOP
      3·
      1 day ago

      Thanks, fixed formatting.

      I just run i3wm. It’s easier to do get to where I’m going if it never installs gnome to begin with.

      • BCsven@lemmy.ca
        11·
        17 hours ago

        Opensuse tumbleweed, lets you select or unselect any DE you want. Right before confirming install summary with Next you click the software link and are brought to the package patterns , and then can go to details and uncheck everything and just click packages you want for the system.

          • BCsven@lemmy.ca
            1·
            8 hours ago

            Tumbleweed is a community distro before SUSE in the chain, new innovations that are proved out go from TW to SUSE, then Leap is derived from SUSE with shared binaries. Unless there are other issues you don’t like besides SUSE/leap corporate?

            • hddsx@lemmy.caOP
              1·
              4 hours ago

              Similar to fedora, I try not to use distros in the stream/family of an enterprise system I dislike. Right now, that’s RHEL and SLES