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.

  • printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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    9 小时前

    Sorry for the late reply and thank you for taking your time! I have “defaulted” back to Artix, having fixed the NIC issue. And I agree, Gentoo is what I dream of being able to handle, but all the USE flags KILLED me when I set it up for the first time a month or so ago. xD I do want to get back to it at some point though.

    • throwaway403@programming.dev
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      3 小时前

      Sorry for the late reply

      No worries fam 🙂.

      thank you for taking your time!

      It has been my pleasure 🙂.

      I have “defaulted” back to Artix, having fixed the NIC issue.

      Glad to hear that you were able to return back to your home.

      And I agree, Gentoo is what I dream of being able to handle, but all the USE flags KILLED me when I set it up for the first time a month or so ago. xD I do want to get back to it at some point though.

      Good mindset! I’m sure you’ll manage whenever you get back to it 😉.