What Linux distro should I choose?

Yes. It makes sense on production servers because you have staging envs to test upgrades. All it does on a desktop is make you use old versions of tools until one day you have a massive update to new old versions of tools, which is way more likely to break shit than doing small, consistent upgrades

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qaz@lemmy.world

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1 year ago

I completely agree, it seems ridiculous to have to reinstall, manually edit sources or have a large number of programs break on you to stay up to date. It’s one of the things Windows does better. I’m personally considering switching to OpenSUSE Slowroll when it leaves beta testing.

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Fal@yiffit.net

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1 year ago

Fwiw arch is great. As long as you regularly update, it’s never an issue.

And they now have an archinstall script on the live image. It’s not a GUI, but it’s a very simple cli app to set up your complete install.

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qaz@lemmy.world

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1 year ago

But why would I choose Arch over something like Fedora?

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Fal@yiffit.net

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1 year ago

Well for one, fedora comes with gnome. So that’s already a reason not to. Also afaik fedora isn’t actually a true rolling release.

Also pacman is the best and the arch repos are amazing, augmented with the AUR

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