PSA: DO NOT INSTALL xx.04 releases!!!
Or just use Debian, if you really enjoy the sluggishness and shitty dependency management of APT.
Alternatively you could switch to Arch and the glory that is pacman (or, even better, yay).
...But that's none of my business.
For a main desktop, absolutely.
For low maintenance servers and vms? Staying with Debian.
For a laptop on which Arch gives issues (mine where with battery when standby). POP-OS has been working well.
No, that's fair. I wouldn't recommend Arch for server use. Debian has its place, and I respect that.
My home server runs OpenSUSE Leap and I've quite enjoyed it.
Yeah. I use Arch on my gaming PC. But on my laptop-converted-to-a-NAS I use OpenMediaVault (Which is Debian based)
There are 2 wolves inside you.
One uses the yay and can install anything from AUR.
The other can install propreitery .deb packages your university vpn comes in to submit homeworks.
There is a crow pulling both wolves by the tail called "bedrock linux" that can install packages using both apt and aur.
The crow is the most dangerous.
Bedrock Linux requires you to change distro.
Let me introduce you to distrobox. It containerizes the distro of choice, and allows you to install any software of any distro, without messing any system files.
Regarding the VPN case though, I haven't tested it, but I would rather install any kind of proprietary software inside a VM. Steam may be an exception.
There is a crow pulling both wolves by the tail called "bedrock linux" that can install packages using both apt and aur.
Oh god... what happens when they both try to pull the same library as a dependency, but slightly different versions because different repos?
You can just make an AUR package that downloads and installs the .deb
Technically you can actually install Apt onto Arch Linux. (don't)
Debtap ftw
Or just switch to Nix and finally witness some actually good package manager.
Yeah, but I need to be able to actually do shit. Preferably in finite amounts of time.
The Nix package manager can be installed on most distros.
Keep in mind though:
Yep, I use it everywhere, that's why I said Nix and not NixOS. I even use it on the company Windows machine inside WSL.
Look at me I am running a package management system with atomic upgrades that can roll back, and indubitable sounds positively fabulous.
which meme
Paru is a rust rewrite(ish) of yay and therefor even even betterer
Edit: uncorrecting autocorrect
File based package review and automatic git tracking + merge of local PKGBUILD changes are pretty attractive features. I'll give it a try.
No, thanks. I like my distro not to break with updates ever. Arch breaks stuff every few months at least. I know cause I have used it. Also I prefer to just have fewer updates in general.
apt's dependency management is shit?
let me see if I understood this straight, someone replaced a core library which caused apt to rightfully to belive the package is not there which caused all packages that depend on it to be marked for autoremoval as expected
Currently trying CachyOS KDE, so far it's decent but... I still have no idea where the flathub repository is supposed to be managed from (yes, Ive seen the wiki, no, it's not where it says it should be) and the app store was a lot friendlier on Fedora KDE.
Things run better here and things that didn't run on Fedora, actually run on Cachy so that's a reason to be less angry at myself. I just have to test Xlink Kai, mumble server and ZeroTier to see if they work.
Tbf, you can always run arch in distrobox and just use the AUR from there if you prefer fedora. I personally do though with gnome.
It's not that I prefer Fedora (so far I'm liking CachyOS better), it's that Cachy could be better/friendlier and I hope it does.
The server software world is debian based. Fortunately/unfortunately.
Horses for courses, desktop and server OS's should have different priorities and approaches.
Even better: stay away from xx.10 releases as well!
.10 stands for October and October is the spooky month! xx.10 releases are just here to sow terror and panic!
You mean I can turn my PC into a haunted house? That'll save me so much money and time!
Thats why I use nixOS. Its only ever .05 or .11
As it should be.
do you remember what happened last time the version is 11?
(/s, I <3 Nix & NixOS)
I thought LTS was short for Let Them Suffer
This I can get behind
This is a messed up meme π When I first into'd ubuntu, I really thought I was big-brained for choosing LTS over the more current release. Mentors are so much more important than you'd think when you're 14ish
Wait I know this is a meme but isnt LTS a way to be on the most stable version with the biggest support by other software/hw?
Arch user here btw. What is a... 'release'?
When a mommy and daddy love each other very much-
Again... Arch user. Such release will never happen for me either :D
Rolling is the way, embrace the updates, go TumbleWeed
That explains some of the instability in Pop!_OS 24.04β¦ Programs suddenly closing, session dying upon unlock. Bluetooth turning on by itself sometimes. Glad to know it isn't haunted, though
In fairness isn't that the beta release of the cosmic desktop? I would expect bugs and random hauntings
Yes, it is Beta. Not a horrible experience overall, despite being Beta. The Bluetooth thing can be a tad annoying, when my headphones randomly scream "connected" in my ears. Windows closing can also be a tad annoying, and the death of my active session moreso (akin to all windows closing together. Combo!)
"They have taken us for absolute fools."
Its also autism month...
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