NunOS: A soothing Linux distribution

Plan

• Decide on base distro: debian
  • Good governance model
  • I trust it, I like it
  • I dislike systemd, but Gentoo, OpenBSD, Devuan, etc. seem too niche
• Decide on desktop environment: GNOME
  • Good for shortsighted users
  • Sensible array of default applications
  • Doesn't try to imitate Windows
  • I like the search with the "windows" key
• Figure out a few basic things
  • how to specify shortcuts in the command line: gsettings, or dconf-editor
• Describe how to get debian step by step
• Describe how to install debian step by step
• Describe how to install the recommended software step by step.
  • With .md.sh scripts
  • Why imperatively? Because nixos has a much higher setup cost for me.
• Recommended hardware

About

Why a "distribution"

• Not a proper distribution
• A bit more effort than your typical set of dotfiles
• Consider it more like a walkthrough
• But the name "nunOS" (I'm Nuño Sempere) was too good to pass up
• The next step might be to: make this a Debian derivative? But not close to it

Debian installer instructions

Partition > Guided - use entire disk and set up encrypted LVM.

Preparatory steps

Give sudo permissions to your user:

su - --command "adduser $(whoami) sudo"
newgrp sudo # avoids having to log out and log in again after adding your user to the sudo group
sudo echo "Hello world!"