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    Also the additional flavours of

    • Nix – whole OS determined by 1 file
    • Gentoo – Arch but it takes longer
    • Alpine – small and simple
    • Slackware? – for old people
    • Void?? – like Alpine but not small and simple
    • LFS??? – like Gentoo but takes longer
    • AOSP??? – not even really Linux anymore
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      Nix – whole OS determined by 1 file

      * Can be determined by 1 file. Or one file and a .lock file. Or even more files. Your pick, really.

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      Gentoo – Arch but it takes longer

      Supports full binary versions since december 2023.

      Slackware? – for old people

      Aka people who know what they’re doing and what they want, noted.

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      Gentoo really has nothing to do with arch. Gentoo in my opinion is more like Debian with compiling and rolling release.

      And what about Fedora? Last I checked it was wildly popular.

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        Gentoo is just frequently cited as the “next step up” from Arch and also funny.

        And Fedora is bucketed into the Red Hat flavour.

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        the most BSD Linux

        Try CRUX.

        (Or KISS/Carbs, Side, Parch, Aeryn, Shebang, … and there are other new ones I’ve forgot the name of, that have either BSD userland or BSD style ports packaging systems).

        I don’t know which is “the most BSD Linux”, but I suspect “BSD people” may not be the most familiar with the distroverse, having their own things to tend to.