Update: Thank you all for your kind and quick responses! I installed Void and antiX and cruised around in them a little. I ended up defaulting back to Artix in the end. The hardware issues with the NIC seem to have gotten resolved. Whatever toxicity and bigotry is present among their larger demographic, I’m going to spread as much light and love as possible. That is, until I switch OS again. 🤣

I have literally never whined about distros before. I went through some Debian based ones, some Arch based one and also installed a base version of Gentoo.

I am most fond of Arch, but after trying Artix, I found that I’m more comfortable with OpenRC as init and process management.

In addition to the latest Artix making my NIC unrecognized by the OS, the Artix forums also seem to house at least some transphobia. This is as good as any opportunity for me to finally ask the question to the world wide web:

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T480 on which I want to use mpv to play video. What Linux flavor do you recommend for a non desktop setup? I looked briefly at Slackware, but it seemed somewhat prepackaged, as opposed to configured by me.

    • Alavi@programming.dev
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      3 days ago

      I haven’t used Guix system (as OS) but using it on top of Arch has been… Cool at least?

      I can’t speak for it’s reliability or reproducibility that much since I haven’t encountered issues yet. It’s hard to grasp, and hard to setup, and needs a lot of time and network bandwidth but it’s cool. I like adding my packages to a manifest so I know what is installed and when.

    • provectus@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      5 days ago

      Idk why your comment has the most upvotes. I will give an upvote to you anyways.