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One of the things that Debian distros have over RPM based distros to me is installation. Even the worst one I've used (Debian stable) is better any RPM one. I'v
by bobajeff 2y ago
One of the things that Debian distros have over RPM based distros to me is installation. Even the worst one I've used (Debian stable) is better any RPM one. I've tried openSUSE and mandriva. Also, there's something about RPM distros, that I've tried, don't feel like they are mine to control.
- anthk 2y agoAlso, Debian has backports, so the 'non-supported hardware' babble it's bullshit. For sure you will have the latest MESA and Kernel in backports while keeping the rest stable enough.
- tapoxi 2y agoI don't know why you're comparing them based on package formats as if that makes the distributions similar. Mandriva was also discontinued 12 years ago.
- bobajeff 2y agoI wasn't comparing package formats at all. I only mention RPM to generalize the type of distro. It was definitely more recent then 12 years ago. Maybe it wasn't mandriva but it was a kde based distro. I prefer KDE and many of the recommended ones are RPM based so recently I tried many of them but their installations were far more limited compared to Linux Mint/Ubuntu/MX and the resulting system didn't feel like something I had much control over.