Niche Distro Users: Why? - eviltoast

I occasionally see love for niche small distros, instead of the major ones…

And it just seems to me like there’s more hurdles than help when it comes to adopting an OS whose users number in the hundreds or dozens. I can understand trying one for fun in a VM, but I prefer sticking to the bigger distros for my daily drivers since the they’ll support more software and not be reliant on upstream sources, and any bugs or other issues are more likely to be documented abd have workarounds/fixes.

So: What distro do you daily drive and why? What drove you to choose it?

  • dan@upvote.au
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    3 months ago

    I had an nvme ssd that refused to play ball with it, a Samsung PM991A nvme ssd

    Did other NVMe drives work? I wonder if it’s using an outdated NVMe driver… Was the kernel old?

    • notthebees@reddthat.com
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      3 months ago

      I honestly haven’t tried any other nvme ssds with it because it’s such a pain to install new ones in that computer. It’s a motherboard removed procedure. I have an sn850x that Id want to try with it. It was on bookworm so an updated kernel.