I use Debian flavors for my daily drivers. I have no complaints, no real desire to switch it up on that front.

However, I am starting to get into self-hosting and homelab projects. I’d like to start test driving some light-weight distros of a different flavor.

I’d prefer a GUI be available, but the environment and WM is pretty inconsequential-- except it shouldn’t be bloated. I’ll install any additional apps I want, I don’t need a curated mid-to-heavy-weight distro.

The plan is to make heavy use of Docker images, to try to maintain a clean and modular setup of services. If that makes any difference.

Suggestions? Any slim distros you’re just gaga for?

  • Kualk
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    7 months ago

    Docker images are immutable and if you run lots of images there will be overlap of commonly used layers.

    Docker has BTRFS driver, which will efficiently reuse layers on BTRFS.

    Basically, there’s good chance to waste less drive space with Docker on BTRFS.