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NixOS is the endgame of distrohopping - Joshua Blais (joshblais.com)

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[–] AnotherPenguin@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Closest one is probably opensuse tumbleweed, but still not perfect by any means

[–] snikta@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago

I believe Guix System (or all Nix/Guix derivates) is the closest one. Otherwise I would say Yocto (not really a distro), Gentoo and all the container based distos (like openSUSE Micro).

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