#distrohopping — Public Fediverse posts

@lproven @theregister #Rescuezilla is fantastic for #DistroHopping!

A quick backup with #Rescuezilla onto an external SSD and I can bare-metal any distro I want (and have all my stuff available via #Nextcloud ). When I’m done, a quick restore and it’s like I never left.

I put the Rescuezilla ISO on my Linux distro #Ventoy SSD that has a separate backup partition. That way, I can backup, install, & restore all from one drive.

Okay Fediverse, what Linux distro should I hop to next?

Target is my should-be-mostly-functional laptop (Thinkpad T460). It currently has Linux Mint 18 (!) on it, and is due for a refresh. History: my older, okay-if-it's-a-little-broken laptop is currently running Arch, and was Slackware before that. Desktop is Xubuntu, in-home server is Fedora.

For this one, looking for something with reasonable package management and stability, vaguely on the less fiddly side but not totally opposed to fiddling. Otherwise, pretty open.

I've been hearing #Alpine a lot these days. Is #Crunchbang still cool? I don't know where it lies on the fiddly spectrum. Is #Nix a distro or a package manager?? Is #Wayland functional yet? I haven't been keeping up that much on Linux distros lately and I don't know what the scene is, so stump for your faves 😄

#askmastodon #askfediverse #distrohopping #linux :boost_ok: