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YMMV. Mint packages tend to be quite old, even older than Ubuntu. This is no good if you want to run close to, or, upstream versions, which Arch excels at. Of
by erikbye 9y ago
YMMV.
Mint packages tend to be quite old, even older than Ubuntu. This is no good if you want to run close to, or, upstream versions, which Arch excels at. Of course, you can install software not using your package manager, but that defeats the point of having centralized package management in the first place and can cause problems.
- KozmoNau7 9y agoI used to think I wanted the very latest version of every single application, not matter what. These days, only Chrome, Spotify, Qbittorrent and a couple of others are the newest versions (through PPAs), everything else is just stock and works perfectly fine.
- erikbye 9y agoI'm not even talking about end-user applications. You have different needs as a developer. I need libraries and compilation chains to be up to date.