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fedora

opensuse tumbleweed (which happens to also be rolling release)

gentoo and lfs make it very clear they’re demanding distros. arch is just a little easier, but it’s closer to gentoo than to debian

that’s a little besides the point. my point is that you have to always be ready, even if an actual intervention event takes a while to happen. you’re used to it and/or got lucky, but the op is not the first person i see having issues like this and getting blamed for them because they should know better

i believe you. also, my great uncle has smoked since he was 13 and he’s now 86 and is still alive

seriously, though, if you do everything right, arch is a great system. it is really well put together and very stable all things considered. the problem is the “doing everything right” part. what happened to op is pretty common if you stop reviewing your updates one by one for a week or two. if you’re used to that, then arch is perfect. otherwise, it’s a chore

arch only works if you think maintaining every detail of a linux system is fun, because you have to constantly know what you’re doing and that’s a huge commitment. stuff like what the op described is bound to happen if you ever get bored of it and decide not to pay much attention to the system one particular week

yeah, it is pretty fun, i used arch for a long time years ago and i liked it. but it’s a huge commitment and you can’t ever forget the system exists (which sometimes you need to do if you have a life)

it is

…if you’re willing to put in the effort to play linux

this is an arch linux problem, not a rolling-release problem. tumbleweed doesn’t have issues like that

debian testing is for testing purposes only. you should never daily drive debian testing (unless you know what you’re doing)

also, we’re about to get a new debian release (trixie), this is literally the worst time you could choose to daily drive debian testing

arch is for people who want to play linux. if you actually want to use linux, go with something else

can someone summarize the video?

no and no, but they have a ton of potential

for some reason, i have both gnome platform 46 and gnome platform 47 installed in my system. that’s probably it

flatpaks are fine and useful, i just wish we didn’t move into a scenario where applications that used to be easily available in distro repos start moving away from them and are only available through flatpaks. distro packages are just so much more efficient in every way. flatpaks are easier on maintainers and developers but that comes at a cost to the user. i have about a dozen or less flatpak apps installed and already i have to download at least 2 gigs of updates each week. i run debian

i’ve seen this story being posted so many times over the years and every time it’s such a good read

most tactful .world user

unpopular opinion: firefox copied chrome because the unified bar is simply better. the separate search field always felt like clutter to me even before i used chrome

do we have any idea about how this lawsuit is going?

some deb packages add new repositories to the system, so there’s a possibility that just installing a deb package will ensure updates keep coming. if i recall correctly, that’s what zoom does

wasn’t this a thing already in kde 3 or 4? or i’m hallucinating?