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> supposedly less stable (Manjaro). It's not supposedly, a "rolling distro" can't be stable because it has no stable ABI (upgrading a few dependencies is enoug
by ChocolateGod 2y ago
> supposedly less stable (Manjaro).
It's not supposedly, a "rolling distro" can't be stable because it has no stable ABI (upgrading a few dependencies is enough to change the ABI exposed to applications).
When your compiled binaries work one moment and then don't work after a system update, that's considered unstable and is one of the reasons people pay Red Hat to support old Linux versions for 20 years.
Some people think "stability" means crashes when it comes to distros, it does not.
- graemep 2y agoI think stable means both. I actually meant it in the second sense - Manjaro is significantly more likely to go wrong in ways that require fixing. I should have used a less ambiguous term in this context though.