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> and it won't change by itself for months That’s… not a good sell at all Promise me a decade and I’ll bite. (Joke’s on me, I’ll need to get out of this windo
by baq 1y ago
> and it won't change by itself for months
That’s… not a good sell at all
Promise me a decade and I’ll bite. (Joke’s on me, I’ll need to get out of this windows shithole asap)
- fsflover 1y agoIf you want years, just choose Debian.
- jstanley 1y agoIn my experience the problem with Debian is that sooner or later you're bound to want to use something that is only 5 years old and therefore not included yet, so you end up having to install it from source or something else, but something doesn't quite work right so you have to hack it one way or another, and over time all this cruft adds up and you end up with a broken system caused precisely because the base distro refused to change fast enough.
- embedding-shape 1y agoI no longer use Debian, but when I did, I always used Debian Testing, never had any major issues that weren't my own fault, and packages are way more up-to-date. Worth trying if you're in that ecosystem still, and you want later stuff than 1-2 years old softwrae.
- Sharlin 1y agoWhen I used Debian on desktop, I never used anything but unstable. It was never unstable except maybe in a very relative sense.
- natebc 1y agobrew is a decent compromise between "breaking debian" and running newer stuff and newer versions of things for desktop use at least. For servers, we just use containers.
- carlos_rpn 1y agoLots of Linux software these days are also distributed as flatpack or appimage, and appimage in particular is dead simple if what you want has it available: place the file wherever on the path, make it executable, and done.
- IsTom 1y agoI've been on XFCE for about a decade and it's mostly the same as it was.
- pjmlp 1y agoVery nice environment, even me with my C rants, am quite pleased with XFCE desktop experience and available extensions.