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this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2024
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Other stable relase distro users who got it backported to them: :3
I really do want to thank Arch, Fedora, NixOS, OpenSUSE users for beta testing software for me.
Arch is the least buggy distro I ever tried.
Except for Slackware maybe. Slackware has literally no bugs. If it doesn't behave like it should, it's your fault.
I broke my install by updating it, I get that if you perfectly understand what's going on then it has no bugs but that's really not my experience. A lot of the time something will break and it's easy to say "I should've known it was this so it's my fault" but really if you didn't expect it to work a certain way and it breaks it's not a super stable system.
My Ubuntu broke literally every time I did a version upgrade. It's probably better now, but I'm not going back.
The last system that straight up broke for me was a default installation of Debian Stable, and that wasn't long ago.
I understand Arch isn't easy to use or maintain.
But in my opinion, if you use something wrong and it breaks, that doesn't mean it's unstable. And if you update Arch by simply hitting "pacman -Syu" every day, you're doing it wrong.
But if lots of people use it wrong and break it then maybe it's too obtuse. I broke one of my applications by upgrading packages. The solution? Install the package again, I thought the package manager would take care of stuff like that but if it's meant to be me then I think it's a bad system.
I always find it kinda weird when people criticize free software.
Like, the developers make something, give it to you for free, pay for server space so you can download it for free, and then you say "it sucks".
OK, just don't use it then.
Criticism and hate are two different things. I hate windows, I can criticise parts of arch Linux which is so far my favourite OS. Me not liking part of it or the way it works doesn't mean there's another version that is completely perfect and I should just shut up and use that. Also no it doesn't suck, but updating my system and having it break is a problem I should not be having.
Same. I've switched to Arch from Ubuntu as my main os almost 10 years ago and in all that time I've had a problem that goes beyond inconvenience level maybe twice. In fact Ubuntu broke more often.
Ubuntu likes to release if the software is ready or not. Linux Mint will hold back releases.
you're welcome, my endeavoros desktoo theme just shot itself on the head, I don't even use nvidia, jesus
"Run, my little QA team. Do my bidding."
This is more accurate
Distrobox
Actually, I enjoy not having to rush to reconfigure my DE
Apparently the upgrade (including configuration) is incredibly smooth. Those interested in tinkering with the vanilla experience have had to install it in a VM.
Made the switch on EndeavourOS this morning and so far so good. I was hesitant to update to Wayland because I'm still a newb and heard there were issues, but my system is AMD based so no problems (yet).
I like it
I think most people complaining about Wayland nowadays are just Nvidia users. I don't have any problems with it on my AMD GPU.
My biggest issue with wayland was screensharing on Discord, but plasma 6 fixed that with xwaylandvideobridge
I've been using Wayland as a daily driver for a few years now, and I'd say it's ready for 98% of use cases
In a way, Squidward is really like Debian, if those two are Arch and NixOS. And as I grow older, I can relate to Squidward more and more...
Come to the dark side, join the sid.
no thanks, I reached the point in my life where I prefer stability, especially with my main machine. I love Debian, only because it's Debian. 💛
Seriously. LTS for life.
What distros have more up to date packages than Debian but aren't as bleeding edge as arch? I'm looking for an in between.
Debian Testing or openSuse Tumbleweed
I really like Void Linux. It is a bit harder to use if you're a beginner, since it's really minimalist and uses its own init system, but overall it's really customizable and packages are kind of new (it is currently on the 6.6.21 kernel version, as a measure).
Fedora is great. Heavily modded distros like Nobara is awesome too specifically for gaming but for privacy I recommend doing a thorough look over.
opensuse tumbleweed
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