After taking another pass at a bunch of Linux distributions, I feel it's important to detail the most important things to me.

This can now be here to act as a kind of checklist for considering a distribution.

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Before I even begin ∞

A decent website which includes philosophies and the other things I need to know.
Active development.
Rolling release.
LiveUSB, or the installer can be placed on a USB stick.
- n/a, it seems that isohybrid makes this universal.
A decent community, especially if the distro is more complex. Forum, wiki, or whatever.
Documentation, especially on prepping the liveUSB.

Philosophies ∞

without systemd
- I don't want another init as "optional". I want a distribution to have a firm stance against it.
Anything GTK+
- e.g. anything related to GNOME
- Migration to Qt preferably. However, they are corporate-controlled as well. Stuff like LXDE is migrating to Qt via LXQt.
- FLTK might be considered.

I'm thinking of going back to a 32bit distribution. I have very old binaries I'd like to get going again without fucking around with a chroot.

Avoid gvfs, udisks.

Consider MATE (a fork of GNOME 2) as a desktop to avoid some of the other bloat others have.

Especially Btrfs and eCryptfs.

Automagical bootloader installation and maintenance.
- Figure everything the fuck out.
- Explicitly support Windows 10 bootup.
- I really don't give a flying fuck if it's GRUB, LILO or something else. I don't want to ever touch it.
  - boot-repair solves most problems, making this somewhat a non-issue.
A proper textmode resolution and font.

Last updated 2019-03-01 at 21:58:39