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swab148@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I just went back to Debian because Arch kept fucking up my graphics drivers. I have actual work to do, I can’t sit around tinkering on my box all day.

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There’s definitely something to be said for stability. I use stable releases for all my server boxes.

    Arch is fine for a gaming desktop or a desktop you don’t do actual, you know, work on.

    But for work or servers you need stability.

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    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Indeed! And the most stable machine is one that is EoL and never gets updates! Nothing breaks if nothing gets updated! That’s why I run IIS on a Vista x64 box!

      🌌🧠

      Spoiler

      DUCK FOR COVER DUCK FOR COVER

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      • notabot@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        DUCK FOR COVER DUCK FOR COVER

        Quack! *BOOM*

        You can securely run IIS on Vista, you just have to unplug the network and power cables.

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    • swab148@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I mean, you do you, but I do plenty of actual work on my Arch machine. I’ve been working on an album, which involves not just the recording, mixing, and mastering, but also there’s a bunch of paperwork involved in the business side of things, not to mention stuff like album art. I game on it as well, but saying Arch isn’t good for work is just ludicrous. It’s a DIY distro, you get what you put in. A few basic steps can keep Arch just as stable as anything else.

      That said, my server is a Debian machine, but that’s because my services don’t need up to date packages, and I just wanted something I could stick in a corner and forget about.

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      • dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        A few basic steps can keep Arch just as stable as anything else.

        “stable” in this case means “doesn’t change often”. Is that actually doable with Arch?

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  • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Nvidia is breaking their graphics driver. Rolling release distros just get fucked by it

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• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And my experience, the only thing that rolling release does is change where/what the bugs are every few months instead of every few years.

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  • swab148@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    On the other hand, my package manager is called pacman and it looks like Pac-Man

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    • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Wauka wauka wauka wauka

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• dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Debian testing is usually good enough. Packages have to be in unstable for ~10 days with no major bugs to migrate to testing.

  Of course, you can run unstable if you really want to live on the edge.

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• hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I went from Arch to Debian

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• rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  just run Sid

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  • swab148@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I like pacman with the ILoveCandy config lol

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• Voyajer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And then you switch your debian to testing or sid and realize how good you had it before hopping distro.

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  • swab148@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Nah, I like pacman more than apt

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    • Voyajer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I agree.

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