Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015)

Re:Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015) by KozmoNau7 on Thursday September 14, 2017 @01:41PM (#15250430)

I used to think I wanted the very latest version of every single application, not matter what.

These days, only Chrome, Spotify, Qbittorrent and a couple of others are the newest versions (through PPAs), everything else is just stock and works perfectly fine.

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Re:Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015) by erikbye on Thursday September 14, 2017 @02:38PM (#15251080)

I'm not even talking about end-user applications. You have different needs as a developer. I need libraries and compilation chains to be up to date.

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Re:Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015) by KozmoNau7 on Friday September 15, 2017 @04:22AM (#15255538)

So you add backports or PPAs for those exact libraries.

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Re:Why I Fell in Love with Arch Linux (2015) by erikbye on Friday September 15, 2017 @05:29AM (#15255772)

Which, in the long run, and sometimes short term, causes problems.

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