Why do people dislike rolling-release model? It's just simple, more stable, less pain for devs, more up to date packages.
Even wincucks are mimicking us, making windows 10 a rolling release distro.
Why do people dislike rolling-release model? It's just simple, more stable, less pain for devs, more up to date packages.
Even wincucks are mimicking us, making windows 10 a rolling release distro.
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Enjoy recompiling all the time
Yes it is. Staying close to the upstream actually makes package conflicts a rare incident
Don't use a source based distro then
retard
Solus is rolling release and the only distro where updating hasn't broken shit.
I've tried Ubuntu, mint, and Fedora.
What the fuck is fucking Solus?
I see it spammed here every day countless times.
Also forgot to ask.
What distro is this? It looks nice.
It's just newfags who have never attempted anything past Ubuntu or Mint.
You Solus shills are getting really obnoxious.
Enjoy reinstall texlive every time poppler upgrade .
I once did a full dist-upgrade from Debian 3.2 (sarge) to Debian 5.0 (lenny). It didn't break anything. In fact, Debian is the only distro I've used where 'upgrade' or 'dist-upgrade' never broke anything or made me roll back packages.
pacman -Syu broke my system a couple of times and Ubuntu can't handle upgrading more than one consecutive version.
>shill
You don't even know what that means anymore. No one would pay to advertise free software, I'm just sharing my experience with Distro hopping and how broken the update system is on other distros.
Updating from F23 to F24 broke my broadcomm wireless drivers and it was annoying as fuck since I don't keep spare Ethernet cables around to diagnose and fix this shit.
Solus has been incredibly stable so far, even with updates.
>Why do people dislike rolling-release model?
Because I don't fucking feel like recompiling every fucking driver that's not in the official repo every fucking time a new kernel release candidate comes out.
>inb4 dkms
DKMS is a broken piece of shit, and it relies on a gazillion "what ifs" and isn't configured automatically.
Might give Debian a try again later, but for now I'm settled on solus, I'm happy with it, and everything works how it should.
If Solus disappoints me though I'll definitely give Debian a try. Only passed on it because I assumed it would be the same as mint or Ubuntu.
You only need to rebuild something if libraries it uses have soname bumps. Can prove that (for some bizarre reason) every single poppler update bumps soname?
>I don't fucking feel like recompiling every fucking driver that's not in the official repo
What kind of retarded hardware do you use?
Compiling a custom configured kernel and modules takes around 3 minutes on a decent machine.
The real pain in the ass is recompiling shit like chromium, it takes ~90 minutes on a Xeon v3 4c8t.
it's simpler for the devs, yes. it's not simpler for me. It's certainly not more stable, stuff can and does break when you update things all the time.
I don't give a shit about the most up-to-date packages in 99% of my system. There's two or three programs that I want to stay current on, and the rest I only care insofar as security makes me care.
Used arch for years running syu's and never had a single problem.
The thing I like best about debian is the number of packages. It has the most packages of any distro and you can always find a .deb of something even if it's not in the official repos.
You can make debian as small or as big as you like. You can start of with a minimal netinstall image and build your way up using apt-get, and any DE/WM or package you install will work out of the box. This is probably due to Debian using default configs for most (if not all) packages so it reduces the likelihood of anything breaking.
For my laptop I use testing with some packages pulled from the unstable repo. On a server I have I run debian stable.
What's the difference between testing and stable?
Is it like Fedora and red hat?
>What's the difference between testing and stable?
They're exactly what they sound like.
Nice try, Kevin
> F23 to F24
My keyboard has only F1 to F12.
Windows always mimicked Linux, proven by them adding a software center/app store.