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I wish them the best of luck. I never used Neon since it was a rolling release distro. This one I also won't be using because it immutable and relies on Flatpak
by bobajeff 1y ago
I wish them the best of luck. I never used Neon since it was a rolling release distro. This one I also won't be using because it immutable and relies on Flatpaks which are very buggy. Standalone binaries or AppImages are fine with me but Flatpaks and Snaps are garbage.
- spooneybarger 1y agoI never got neon to work in a way that wasn't unpleasant.
- pharrington 1y agoNeon is explicitly a bleeding edge KDE testbed (but I'll agree that their website undersells this fact)
- mcosta 1y agoNeon has 2 flavors, developer and user. The user one is stable.
- pharrington 1y agoSorry for the late reply. Earlier this year, I tried KDE Neon User Edition. It offers updates everytime any KDE software you've installed gets an official update, meaning you're shown updates practically everyday. That isn't stable. Again, the website copy undersells this, saying it "Featuring the latest officially released KDE software on a stable base (emphasis mine)." edited for clarity
- mcosta 1y agoI love neon, so it is a tie.
- jorvi 1y agoNot only is Arch also a rolling distro (despite them saying "not Arch!"), Arch is one of the most horrible rolling distros in terms of stability. Their general principle for package breakage is "you should have checked it on our (site) release log". They don't throw an error or a warning, if something is a breaking change and you pull it into your system, you basically get a "hehe should have checked the release log", and you're hosed. If you want a good, actually professional rolling release, use SUSE Tumbleweed. They test packages more thoroughly, and they actually hold back breaking or buggy changes instead of the "lol read log and get fucked" policy.
- mariusor 1y agoVery uncharitable perspective on people that do the work for free. I can understand not wanting to use a distribution where breakages can happen, but being a dick about it less so.
- temp0826 1y agoI swore off arch when an update surprised me by switching to systemd (years ago obviously) and trashing my system in the process
- Lex-2008 1y agoTo be fair to Arch, you can always subscribe to their RSS or mailing list if you want to be notified about breaking changes
- thangalin 1y ago> Arch is one of the most horrible rolling distros We've had different experiences. I've been using Arch for about 8 years and have had to scour the forums no more than thrice to find the magic incantations to fix a broken package manager. In all cases, the system was saved without a reinstall. However, it is certainly painful when pacman breaks. $ cat /etc/issue Antergos Linux \r (\l) ;-)
- mynegation 1y agoThat’s three times too many. I have been running an Ubuntu server at home for 10 years and went through probably 4 LTS releases and the number of times apt flaked out on me - exactly zero.
- TheAceOfHearts 1y agoI'm running Ubuntu 24.10 and they broke the upgrade to 25.04 if you're using ZFS on the boot drive. Their solution was to prevent the upgrade from running, and basically leave behind anyone stuck on 24.10 to figure it out for themselves.
- pkulak 1y agoWhy is a comment trashing a different project, in the most lazy way possible, at the top of the page? EDIT: wow, all the comments are like that. I guess something has to come first.
- ofalkaed 1y agoThere has been an increasing trend in the use of up votes as likes instead of user moderation which results in worthwhile discussion sinking to the bottom and stuff like this being at the top and setting the general tone of the discussion.
- flanked-evergl 1y agoFlatpak is the new systemd I guess.