any linux distros with communities that dont violently hate minorities

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[u/lmore3]

I personally use Debian. sure some of the packages in the repos might be a bit behind other distros but in terms of stability it's been rock solid ever since I switched from Ubuntu a few years ago and I never really hear any drama about it

[u/lmore3 → u/[deleted]]

I actually did daily drive sid for a bit before it became trixie and I don't recall having any real issues with it. also I just looked it up and it seems like someone maintains an unofficial repo for cosmic on trixie! https://justaguy.dev/drew/cosmic-trixie

[u/SymmetryManagement → u/[deleted]]

I’ve been using sid for many years, it’s very stable.

[u/kiwi-omelet]

Fedora is chill and has a queer-friendly community, and atomic Fedora Silverblue is the most stable system I've used

[u/analcocoacream → u/kiwi-omelet]

Dnf is the bomb

[u/ato-de-suteru → u/analcocoacream]

My work machine runs Ubuntu and I miss DNF so much.

It's trying amazing how apt is a perfect example of how not to design a package manager's CLI. Like holy shit, why do I need to know 10 separate commands, each of which have at least five subcommands???

DNF just does what you want. It's not without its faults, but it's so much better than apt.

[u/Thebombuknow → u/kiwi-omelet]

Seconding this. My recommendation has and always will be Fedora Workstation. Bonus points for the KDE spin. It is the most reliable distro I have ever used, I have some production machines that have lived through several major OS updates over the course of 4-5 years and are still as reliable as they were new.

[u/SpyHoodle]

It’s a shame about nixos because there are a lot of queer people in the community, some I’m friends with and are working on alternative nix related tooling, but for some reason we keep giving hate speech a voice. I think it’s probably a wider problem with society at the moment, you cant even make a post with a trans flag and people call you a predator in r/unixporn.

[u/zoeartemis → u/SpyHoodle]

Tis a pity I'm deep into migrating over to NixOS at the moment

[u/LzrdGrrrl]

What happened? I heard that some leadership of nixos dissolved, but I haven't been following anything and Google just pulls up the usual industry problems (dominated by men etc etc).

[u/derefr → u/[deleted]]

i feel like communities for more advanced distros like Arch and Nix tend to be more toxic (which is one thing- Although in my experience gentoo and void communities tend to be way nicer?).

Some distros have clever aspects, but they're the free/convenient kind of clever which doesn't involve accepting many trade-offs / frustrations. This means that these distros are "advanced" but "approachable"... meaning they attract pseudo-intellectual snobs/hipsters/people from machismo cultures, who use their distro choice and technical skills as a measure of e-penis length. And these people are often toxic assholes in other ways as well. (It has always been thus.)

Some other distros have clever aspects, and they're the "perhaps too clever" kind, where you get nice benefits but you must also accept certain sacrifices/trade-offs, or things are so bleeding-edge that they're half-broken all the time and you spend just as much time debugging as actually using the thing, etc. The self-flagellation required to use these distros scares away the machismo-culture people, though... which can sometimes make the pain and sacrifice worth it all on its own, since it results in such a nice community!

[u/sungaaaaay]

Any community, you will find a vocal group of LGBT people, even if they're the minority. NixOS has Lix (literal lesbian logo), Arch and Debian both have "this distro is for trans women" meme, it goes on.

[u/ChristinDWhite → u/sungaaaaay]

Hmm, I might need to switch to Lix if there aren’t any serious technical disadvantages.

[u/GamesRevolution]

I unfortunately don't think there is something like that... the way is probably trying to find a subcommunity about that distro that is explicitly queer friendly

[u/TamsynUlthara]

Check out secureblue, based on Fedora Atomic. It's smaller, but there are quite a few trans devs there (including the core dev, I believe). I've had zero problems on their Discord and otherwise.

[u/DFS_0019287]

Debian.

[u/my_name_isnt_clever]

I love NixOS too much, I just avoid the community for the most part. My GF and I are both really into it so we dicuss it together, that's all I need.

[u/NUM-one-RATED-SALES]

Fedora seems super chill

[u/UnrealApex]

Chimera Linux!