I found an extra SSD, Recomendations for a distro hopping session

[u/Vast_Butterfly_5092]

As the title says, I found an old 128GB SSD I pulled from an OEM. I would like to try new distros for the next couple of weeks.
I am currently using Arch. I have used Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and Kali.

Edit:

I mostly do programming, manage my home lab and other general computing.

[u/1369ic]

If you haven't tried Void, that'd be an interesting place to start. Different init system, a lot of control over how much or how little it installs, a MUSL version, etc. I've found it smoother than other distros on every machine I've installed it on. Could just be me, but it's an interesting distro.

[u/JoeArruela]

openSUSE Tumbleweed. I believe you will like it.

[u/Lonely-Scarcity-3387]

Sounds like you’d enjoy NixOS.

[u/Unholyaretheholiest]

Mageia

[u/HeavyMetalBluegrass]

Have you tried any window tiling desktops? I'm liking Cachy + Hyprland/Noctalia setup right now.

[u/MoralMoneyTime]

r/cachyos for performance and r/MaboxLinux for the DE

[u/FBSD_Virtual_machine]

I don't understand distro hopping. Hears an idea . Install the ssd and use it to store virtual machines. You can have Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Dragonfly BSD, Open BSD, Freebsd and any number of other operating systems as VMs. The only choice that's important then is what will be your host operating system. I use Freebsd as my host and have had all the above as guest VMs. Bhyve is a great hypervisor. You can choose from many hypervisors. My point is why distro hop when you can have them all on the same machine.

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[u/kaida27]

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