Obarun is meant to be a demonstration of the s6 init system, specifically with the
author’s s6-66 service manager.
Make sure you get the latest version. 66 has changed a lot since previous
releases, and only the latest Obarun release has the latest 66 release
How did you find Obarun? I found a few install hitches in a VM, but it was workable once I got it installed.
I switched to those init diversity spin releases (Antix, Devuan, MX) for looking at 66, because they are Debian based… I dont have much experience with Arch based distros, although I have looked at Artix… Artix has s6 with s6-rc, not s6-66… it is quite different.
Just as a distro, not an init system experiment, I still prefer Void. It is probably your best choice in a Linux, but dont forget the BSD family… there are plenty of good challenges there. GhostBSD is a relatively easy version of FreeBSD… ie it installs with a GUI already set up. With FreeBSD install you just get a console… you have to add a DE…
OpenBSD is a tremendous culture shift.
Now here is my most way out suggestion… try GUIXOS. It is totally GNU… has its own init system called shepherd and its own package system (also called GUIX). I have not ventured there yet. It was meant to be the gnu side of Hurd, but Hurd never made it, so they
cobbled LinuxLibre onto it. Should be an interesting excursion.
There is another option if you only want application rolling releases, Mint has good FlatPak support and FlatPak does Application Rolling release. You can install the up to date version of LibreOffice right from the Software manager, just choose the FlatPak version. I see this in Mint 21.3:
I did not know about this site and decided to see what it would choose for me. LOL:
1.Devuan
2.Void Linux
3.Artix
4.Rocky Linux
5.Krux Linux (whaat?)
6. qubes OS (again whaat?)
7. NixOS
Very different from my current installations, and I would never have thought of those choices on my own.
I was reading one of the articles here on ItsFOSS that talked about getting bored with your current OS and trying something more challenging. That I can agree with. Once I seem to have the basic differences figured out in another Linux, and after using it for a while, I always have one machine to try out new ones on.
So despite my lack of time to put into it all at once, I installed Endeavor OS and the first thing I required was my Barrier (Synergy fork). Did I get to download and install? Did I get to choose it in the packages and tell the OS to install? No & No. I read up on the “AUR” and “YAY” and got Barrier installed in like 5 minutes. YAY, indeed.
But that “patience” @xahodo alluded to will definitely be required to learn how to expand my current abilities in the shell.
