[Discuss] Ordered a New Laptop

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

Kent Borg wrote: 
> Moving on to a different question for opinionated folk: Recently I saw some
> posting about what Linux distributions people use on their Framework
> machines, and I was startled to see that Debian was way down the list. Any
> recommendations for what distribution a long time Debian user might like
> better in this year 2024?
> 
> - Maybe one that isn't systemd-based?
> 
> - One that has MATE desktop environment because I *like* menus, and hate the
> phone-envy UI that Ubuntu seems to have popularized.
> 
> - Conservative about what packages they allow in, and not bleeding edge in
> releasing new versions.
> 
> - Has long support schedule so I don't need to do a big revision change
> often.

Sounds like you might want Debian with a different init. You
could do that on Debian with a little tinkering, or you could use Devuan.

-dsr-