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As an Arch Linux user for years this hurts me. I can't even imagine living with all that old crufty stuff and then when you actually upgrade something you have
by nickik 9y ago
As an Arch Linux user for years this hurts me. I can't even imagine living with all that old crufty stuff and then when you actually upgrade something you have library issues and so on.
For those who are to afraid to run Arch, consider openSUSE Tumbleweed. It is as up to date (or more so) as Arch Linux but they do a lot of automated testing, plus they do a lot of automatic snapshots so you can go back if needed (that is if you are willing to run Btrfs).
- cbcoutinho 9y agoI totally agree, have been a happy Tumbleweed user for over a year now. Installation is a breeze compared to Arch.
- nickik 9y agoHow dare you say that installing Arch is not easy?????
- cbcoutinho 9y ago> compared to Arch Have you ever tried to install Tumbleweed? I was comparing the two, not using absolutes.
- ac29 9y agoI think the one of the biggest things for me about stable/LTS distros aside from dealing with "old, crusty stuff", is that said software is upgraded all at once every two or three years. Doing 5 or 10 minutes of work a month looking into changelogs for packages and adjusting settings and what not is much more managable than having everything change underneath you all at once, possibly by several major versions. Its almost a miracle that stable->stable upgrades even work.