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Debian Sid makes a pretty good "rolling release" distro for home/hobby use at least, although I prefer OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for this.

kelnos 4y ago
Sid is unstable (by definition and design)b wouldn't recommend as a daily driver. Testing is a decent rolling release distro, though.
- matthews2 4y ago
  Testing isn't rolling release. Every 2 years, testing becomes stable, and stable becomes oldstable.
  - abenga 4y ago
    Not if you explicitly use the word "testing" in your apt config though, no? But yeah, after the hard freeze, changes do slow down until it stable is released, then there is a flood of changes.
WastingMyTime89 4y ago
But you will still be subjected to Debian crazy rules regarding applied patch sets. Nowadays you can get a full featured, well integrated and properly working user land on Linux with next to zero customisation with systemd and Gnome. I really recommend using a distribution which stays as close to vanilla as possible.
- JohnFen 4y ago
  Sure, if you find Gnome to your tastes. I can (just barely) live with systemd, but I am very allergic to Gnome.
  - WastingMyTime89 4y ago
    It's the same with any DE nowadays. Switch Gnome by KDE or any other. The base system is uniform enough that things just fit together. Debian would still patch far too much to my taste without the integration anyway. They remove/rebrand what they don't find free enough, want to make things "modular", want to split development and base packages, want to support a ton of architectures upstream doesn't care about and want to integrate things in their historic tooling. It has introduced some severe bugs in the past.
kombine 4y ago
I recently put Tumbleweed on my laptop and am pleasantly surprised. You get new packages very fast thanks to automated testing, built-in btrfs snapshots allow you to undo a problematic update. Will be moving my main Ubuntu desktop to it soon.

kelnos 4y ago

Sid is unstable (by definition and design)b wouldn't recommend as a daily driver. Testing is a decent rolling release distro, though.

matthews2 4y ago
Testing isn't rolling release. Every 2 years, testing becomes stable, and stable becomes oldstable.
- abenga 4y ago
  Not if you explicitly use the word "testing" in your apt config though, no? But yeah, after the hard freeze, changes do slow down until it stable is released, then there is a flood of changes.

WastingMyTime89 4y ago

But you will still be subjected to Debian crazy rules regarding applied patch sets. Nowadays you can get a full featured, well integrated and properly working user land on Linux with next to zero customisation with systemd and Gnome. I really recommend using a distribution which stays as close to vanilla as possible.

JohnFen 4y ago
Sure, if you find Gnome to your tastes. I can (just barely) live with systemd, but I am very allergic to Gnome.
- WastingMyTime89 4y ago
  It's the same with any DE nowadays. Switch Gnome by KDE or any other. The base system is uniform enough that things just fit together. Debian would still patch far too much to my taste without the integration anyway. They remove/rebrand what they don't find free enough, want to make things "modular", want to split development and base packages, want to support a ton of architectures upstream doesn't care about and want to integrate things in their historic tooling. It has introduced some severe bugs in the past.

kombine 4y ago

I recently put Tumbleweed on my laptop and am pleasantly surprised. You get new packages very fast thanks to automated testing, built-in btrfs snapshots allow you to undo a problematic update. Will be moving my main Ubuntu desktop to it soon.