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There's always Fedora which has gotten better and better the last couple releases. But I like Arch too. I just switched away from it because I got tired of thi
by meddlepal 11y ago
There's always Fedora which has gotten better and better the last couple releases.
But I like Arch too. I just switched away from it because I got tired of things breaking if I wasn't religiously upgrading.
- tbrock 11y agoThat doesn't make sense to me. Wouldn't more things break if you only updated them every six months and had to retest the whole system rather than the parts that changed as you went along. I found that upgrading Ubuntu/Debian to the next release always screwed everything up as basically all the packages changed. Heck fedora couldn't even update to the next release until fed up came out.
- agumonkey 11y agoI wonder how people feel about nix. Broken updates are by design a minor issue since it's transactional/rollbackable.
- meddlepal 11y agoHow is NixOS as a workstation/desktop/laptop OS? Does it have any major issues with hardware I'd run into?
- agumonkey 11y ago2015 release used kernel 3.18, some drivers were lagging[1] so I went back to arch. But the latest 2016.03 release is now on 4.4, I'm about to try. I saw many people saying they were happy using nixos on twitter. It's a paradigm shift that require a good deal of RTFM. Felt like the first time I used linux somehow. [1] my wifi chip took minutes to initialize due to proprietary blob issues.
- meddlepal 11y agoAwesome, thanks for the info!
- _yy 11y agoFedora is the only real alternative if you want more stability.