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    [–] Metz 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    One can like multiple distros. e.g. i run Debian on my media center because i have no need for bleeding edge software and want just a stable system that changes as rarely as possible and only receives security patches. Its a perfect OS for shit that just needs to be setup once and then runs in that configuration forever.

    If you try that with e.g. Arch, it is very possible that after a week you have suddenly a different theme installed for your frontend and your plugins stopped working.

    For my webservers i tend more to ubuntu because of newer packages as Debian but being still relative stable in terms of versions. (but looking into others. i'm just an lazy fuck right now)

    And on my desktop system i run EndeavourOS (Arch) because i like to have the newest shit for gaming and i like some of the design decisions the dev made like the early merge of /bin.

    And on some of my ancient android phones i got Alpine to run very nicely in a chroot. Primarily because it is very very lightweight / compact and uses OpenRC as init system because Systemd gets very pissy when its not running as PID 1 / detecting it is in a chroot and then refuses to start services (there are hackarounds, but why bother?)

    And then there is of course things like Raspian, etc.

    Use the right tool for the job.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I use EndeavourOS, and I love the way the system runs, I enjoy pacman and AUR, but I also get annoyed having to do the sudo pacman -Syu dance every couple of days. I want an Arch-like distro that is stable. Does such a thing exist?

    [–] Metz 1 points 1 month ago

    It really does feel like a lot sometimes with the updates. I'm also thinking about looking for something that is also quite close to the edge / rolling but maybe a bit slower.

    I was on Manjaro before for a couple of years. They clone the arch repos but then hold back the updates usually a week or so for testing. And it feels in general a bit more "stable" in that concern. But unfortunately over the years i noticed some problems with it like holding back important security updates for way too long for my taste or rewrites of some arch-tools which then not worked in a expected way.

    And Endeavour felt right from the first second on noticeable more mature and professional with settings and tools that made sense.

    The one big distro family i never looked into is Fedora. As far i see they have some kind of semi-rolling release which could fit the bill quite nicely. Major releases which then kept fairly up-to-date but not so fast and overwhelming as with Arch.

    Maybe i will check it out. But yeah, i would probably miss the AUR. It is just so damn convenient.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

    There are more rolling release distributions like tumbleweed.

    I use endeavour because I like Arch but don't need to be bothered installing it the arch way more than once.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

    no. you can only like one.