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Stable Linux distro with up to date packages

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Maybe what I’m looking for is the holy grail, but what do you guys suggest as a Distro with a good balance between stability and up-to-date packages?

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Justin@lemmy.jlh.name
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tbf neither does Fedora.

But yeah, I would recommend either Debian or NixOS, depending on how stable you want it.

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Is this not solved by using the “unstable” nixpkgs channel or is that something different?

I’m a NixOS newbie and still learning a lot about it haha

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The stable branches promise no breaking changes (in configuration options etc.). Unstable is a rolling release with everything that entails (personally I use it on desktops and stable on servers).

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