if you’re looking for an original distro, you should try void. it’s super lightweight. i used to keep away from gentoo because it was a source only distro, i would otherwise go fulltime on it, but now that it also has binary compatibility you should check that out, too.
as for wm, i love wayfire as a floating wm, and sway as a tiling wm.
which was made possible thanks to public funding.
zathura is amazingly lightweight and does the job right. i even use that on my phone (which is not that powerful).
i have an idol3 from 2016 and even that has all the phone capabilities (except the camera) and it’s not listed as a community grade. you would be surprised at how many phones are working fully. and with sxmo/swmo every phone ever has a chance to be a daily driver.
i remember a time when the thing blocking linux migration was audio calling on msn messenger. it got solved but nobody cared. these things take time to go over the tipping point. hardly anybody used android when it first came out, symbian was all the hype.
if you are willing and have a spare phone you should try postmarketos now.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38260935
tldr it’s a clickbait title.
alpine and void linux are pretty lightweight.
i guess it’s from 2011.
i have a t420 and running up-to-date void linux perfectly fine.
sometimes that’s right, but other times it fires back. like in autodesk software, it turns into a money making machine. because they’re the industry standard for more than a decade now, they just pump out new version every year with barely any changes and deliberately not forward compatible. so you just pay more every month, because everything is subscription based now.
understantable have a great day :)
it is the equivelant of the dude’s rug, it ties the room together. the end user doesn’t even recognize that change. it brings all programs that work with different sound servers (alsa, pulseaudio, jack) under the same umbrella.
i know, i have it installed on two machines, i love it. op wanted a distro that supports systemd.
if you want systemd then void is out of the question, void uses runit.
the most you will do is write a config file, so nothing to worry about.
my advice would be to start simple. if you will use x, then start with openbox. if you will use wayland, then start with wayfire.
when you get the hang of things, you will be comfortable to try everything.
My first point was “it’s obscenely overpriced”. So let’s dissect that:
That’s almost worse than my 2015 idol3 which has an octa-core CPU. And it’s freakin’ $1.299!!
On the other hand let’s look at Shift6MQ:
And it’s €577 (which makes $627) which is less than half of what Librem 5 goes for. Would you call Librem 5 overpriced now?
You somewhat agree with my third point but add that Purism develops software for mobile Linux (which I don’t deny) and say that running pmOS would be less useful without it (which I don’t agree). There’s Plasma Mobile, there’s SXMO (which I love the most) and lately even Gnome Mobile feels more snappy than Phosh. FOSS always finds a way.
Let’s talk about my second point. I said that “this cultist shit doesn’t make it any better” referring to the Louis Rossmann video. If you’ve ever watched the video, you would’ve seen that there’s a real person with a real problem and being stonewalled by Purism (which is not a singular incident by the way, I have seen numerous people saying the same shit). The thing you should’ve done would be to sympathize with that customer instead of coping for the company (if you’re not the person that wrote the e-mail, of course). But here you are debatelording with semantics. Not on its payroll? What the fuck does that even mean? Why would I care about who’s on whose payroll? I care about the community.
thanks for the correction, i don’t what i was thinking while writing that. i guess i couldn’t decide floating or stacking for wayfire so the whole thing broke down :)
i’ve had a t420 for years and it’s still going strong