Unfortunately, I feel like the interesting options have lost already. I'm very familiar with the four remaining distros, so I doubt I'll learn anything new about them. I've now switched to voting for which ones I like as opposed to which ones I was interested in seeing you try.
If you do this again, maybe you could stress that people should vote for distros they are unfamiliar with or would like to learn more about. Or maybe I'm the one looking at this the wrong way.
Nah, I hear what you're saying. There were a few that got knocked out that I was pulling for (Slackware, #!++, and FreeBSD in particular). On the other hand, I'm kind of glad the only ones left are ones that I'm familiar with seeing as I'll be daily driving them for the year. If there are particular distros you were hoping to see me try, let me know and I'll do a first impressions on them :)
I forgot that you were going to be using it for a year. Wow, that's a commitment!
I've been using NixOS for a few months now, so that one would have been interesting just because I'm still learning. Especially how to make my own package definitions. So that one would have been my selfish pick.
As for the distros I know very little about and are interested in, I would go with: Slackware, FreeBSD, and Pop_OS. With Pop_OS barely making the list. So your list and mine are closely aligned. (I didn't know #!++ existed, so I don't have an opinion on that one.)
#!++ is the shortened way to write CrunchbangPlusPlus. It's the spiritual successor of the old Crunchbang Linux (basically a minimal Debian with Openbox) that died off back in the mid-2010s. I used to run that as my daily driver on an Acer netbook and I absolutely loved it. The other spiritual successor to it is Bunsen Labs Linux if you've heard of that one.
I was honestly a little nervous that NixOS might win since I really know next to nothing about it -- aside from what I've heard people talk about on Locals and on the JB podcasts. I'm glad I don't have to learn a whole new thing for this, though I'm sure it would have been fun. Same goes for Fedora. I'm much more comfortable in the Debian and Arch based worlds than the RPM ones.
Oh, and I'm really interested in what Pop_OS is doing, but mostly just for their Cosmic desktop environment.
Unfortunately, I feel like the interesting options have lost already. I'm very familiar with the four remaining distros, so I doubt I'll learn anything new about them. I've now switched to voting for which ones I like as opposed to which ones I was interested in seeing you try.
If you do this again, maybe you could stress that people should vote for distros they are unfamiliar with or would like to learn more about. Or maybe I'm the one looking at this the wrong way.
Nah, I hear what you're saying. There were a few that got knocked out that I was pulling for (Slackware, #!++, and FreeBSD in particular). On the other hand, I'm kind of glad the only ones left are ones that I'm familiar with seeing as I'll be daily driving them for the year. If there are particular distros you were hoping to see me try, let me know and I'll do a first impressions on them :)
I forgot that you were going to be using it for a year. Wow, that's a commitment!
I've been using NixOS for a few months now, so that one would have been interesting just because I'm still learning. Especially how to make my own package definitions. So that one would have been my selfish pick.
As for the distros I know very little about and are interested in, I would go with: Slackware, FreeBSD, and Pop_OS. With Pop_OS barely making the list. So your list and mine are closely aligned. (I didn't know #!++ existed, so I don't have an opinion on that one.)
#!++ is the shortened way to write CrunchbangPlusPlus. It's the spiritual successor of the old Crunchbang Linux (basically a minimal Debian with Openbox) that died off back in the mid-2010s. I used to run that as my daily driver on an Acer netbook and I absolutely loved it. The other spiritual successor to it is Bunsen Labs Linux if you've heard of that one.
I was honestly a little nervous that NixOS might win since I really know next to nothing about it -- aside from what I've heard people talk about on Locals and on the JB podcasts. I'm glad I don't have to learn a whole new thing for this, though I'm sure it would have been fun. Same goes for Fedora. I'm much more comfortable in the Debian and Arch based worlds than the RPM ones.
Oh, and I'm really interested in what Pop_OS is doing, but mostly just for their Cosmic desktop environment.