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Perhaps I should have used those years ago instead of becoming jaded and cynical.
by J_Darnley 11y ago
Perhaps I should have used those years ago instead of becoming jaded and cynical.
- washadjeffmad 11y agoThe trade off to having stable, secure packages has always been not getting new features. For example, in LTS releases, major versions are frozen but perpetually updated and patched for the lifetime of the distro. In more bleeding edge rolling release distros, you receive (or compile) sometimes major version updates of software within a short time after their public release. In those distros you can still freeze your packages at certain versions, but it's not quite the same as making sure every library and component in the system is getting the same treatment. Try manjaro (https://manjaro.github.io/ https://manjaro.github.io/). It uses pacman (like Arch) and yaourt (for AUR, building from source). Their driver and kernel management makes switching between free/non-free drivers or different kernels easy. And they're pretty close to bleeding edge; I've been running kernel 4.2 with Xorg 1.17 (released 2015/02) for months, and up to kernel 4.4rc4 and Xorg 1.18 are available in the repos.