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Been a bit since I've messed around with any desktop Linux distros so I tried out a few of the ones that entered the field since I last ran a desktop. Bazzite was really interesting, I think for folks new to Linux this is likely going to be a really great gateway drug. The immutable nature of it made it so that a newbie really can't mess anything up but if you're coming at it as an experienced Linux user or admin, I could see the immutability might become frustrating, it did for me after a bit. I *really* liked CachyOS. Arch Linux holds a soft spot in my heart, as does Slackware, just for their sheer breadth and depth of customization. I loaded it onto a 2011-era MacBook and honestly it ran incredibly well for a 15 year old piece of hardware with an old SSD chucked at it. Surprisingly speedy compile time for packages, and boot time was incredibly quick. I think I'll likely find myself playing with this one again down the road. There were a couple of quirks with some packages I was trying to get working and I was getting some weirdness with my Yubikey that I hadn't gotten on other Linux OS on the same hardware. But I liked it a ton. But I'm also impatient and didn't want to debug things so I moved on. Alpine Linux was one I had messed with a bit in the container space since it became something of a darling for small footprint containers and so I thought I might give it a go on bare metal. It's fast, I'll give it that, but MUSL just keeps causing me too many problems. Maybe it's just an issue of my being old...MUSL memory if you will... ... ... *crickets* ...ahem, anyway. I see Debian came out with a new major point release since last I used it. That would be funny if I land there, coming full circle really. Debian was where I got my start messing around with Linux and learning the basics from my local Linux User Group. Let that be a warning for all of you out there, don't dabble in Linux. I went from "How do I get Apache to load automatically when I reboot" to "I just installed Slackware on my old Dreamcast and I'm having difficulty getting it to join my Beowulf Cluster" in the span of a couple of years. If you're not careful, you end up running Doom on your toaster. That was almost 30 years ago and here we are with me doing this mess professionally for over a quarter of a century. Fuck I'm old. Anyway, off to try out Debian Trixie and see what's new in the land of GNU. Peace and humptiness forever.