I’m moving away from Windows and I’m looking for distro for coding and occasional gaming. If more context is needed please let me know.
Non rolling release distros are completely inappropriate for desktop use
Why exactly? Because you need to manually upgrade to newer versions?
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
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.
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.
