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Stable Linux distro with up to date packages (feddit.it)

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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I find EndeavorOS (Arch) to be very reliable. I use it with KDE. Gnome can be good too for a minimalistic style that doesn’t change much.

[–] Gubb 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

+1 for EndeavourOS, have been using for about a year now and it’s been nothing short of great.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does endeavour use pacman? I've got Garuda running on my son's PC and I'm not a big fan of their update script.

[–] Gubb 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes it does, you can also leverage the AUR with yay.

What don’t you like about pacman?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, I have no issue with pacman, it's the "garuda-update" script I don't care for. I see endeavour has eos-update which I haven't really looked at much but in Garuda if use "pacman -Syu" it will interrupt with "Garuda uses garuda-update for updates" - I know it's trivial and I don't have to use it but I don't like that. Don't interrupt my workflow to try and coerce me to use your script. Yes, it's a petty gripe but it feels very microsoft-like in the same way that Windows 11 will delay the launch of Firefox to tell you "Edge was built for Windows."

[–] Gubb 1 points 1 year ago

I see, no EndeavourOS does not do that, you can update your system a few different ways, you can use pacman-Syu or you can use yay.

Yay will pull from EndeavourOS mirrors and the AUR