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    [–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    That's why God invented OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for all your stable rolling release needs.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Despite its popularity, I've never had much luck with Void. However, I could try it again. 17th time's the charm!

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    what did you have trouble with?

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Just the little things, really. App compatibility, xbps not having too many packages, issues with Musl, GRUB not loading on the LiveUSB, desktop/WM selection, and also I don't like the way Runit works. I could make it work if I needed to, but overall it just seems like too much effort.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Void user here. If you're having trouble with musl then just use the glibc base image. As they offer both C implementations.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

    The Musl issues were a while ago. The other issues were experienced on the glibc version.

    Void is a distribution I keep trying, but I believe I'll be either sticking with the Arch family or switching to Gentoo, openSUSE, or NixOS.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

    As an Arch User who keeps hearing about OpenSUSE being a more stable rolling release....mind going into it a bit more? I'm happy on my system, mind, but idk, could be I'm missing out on something big for not making the jump. If nothing else, I'll know my options

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, either openSUSE or Gentoo will probably fix my issues good and proper.

    [–] Heavybell 2 points 10 months ago

    I use Gentoo. Most of my fstab entries are by partuuid, which works for me.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

    To be frank I went away from Gentoo for much the same reason. And the constant compilation. I only used it once after that for a small project where I needed to minimise what actually lands in the OS.

    But all that was years ago.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

    I've had great results with EndeavourOS

    [–] JATtho 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    So it is btrfs snapshot time again and making it a bootable backup before pacman -Syu?

    I have had only single time I remember when the Arch upgrade truly fucked up the system: libreadline.so was broken so bash didn't work. :D

    I always have a second bootable system in case the main system is unable to boot... So I can at least troubleshoot the main system.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    I have multiple devices, but I just use my trusty KNOPPIX LiveCD to unlock the disk and move everything onto an external hard drive before either troubleshooting via chroot or just doing a clean install.

    [–] genie 1 points 10 months ago

    Fedora + Nix package manager and never look back!