Re:PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition
by genghizkhan on Monday August 31, 2020 @03:42PM
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> I prefer Ubuntu LTS to Debian's testing/stable approach.
May I ask why?
Re:PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition
by monoideism on Monday August 31, 2020 @09:57PM
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Because I like having a stable system with a known "good for" date, rather than "when it's ready". I particularly like using LTS for systems that I don't want to have to touch very often...just set unattended security updates on and leave it be.
I realize I could do something similar with Debian, but testing isn't generally stable enough for the use cases I have in mind, whereas stable gets stuck with some very old packages. If I need a new package toward the end of the lifespan of a LTS, I can often find PPA. If not, I'll just compile it myself.
It's just my preference. To be honest, probably a big part is that Ubuntu is mostly what I've used the past decade.
It's nice that Ubuntu has been very predictable getting releases out on a schedule, while Debian's approach has been "when it's ready", which could sometimes be a very long time between stable releases.
Re:PinePhone Manjaro Community Edition
by genghizkhan on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @06:15AM
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Debian's been on a 2-year release cadence since at least 2007. I agree, they don't come out like clockwork the way Ubuntu LTS editions or macOS do but they come out in the first half of the year they're supposed to. At worst it's 2.5 years between releases at best it's under 2 years.
Debian is great. I particularly respect Debian as an organization. On my home laptop, I've used Debian, Arch, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc etc.
But on my work computer, I've always used Ubuntu (or sometimes MacOS), because:
- I prefer Ubuntu LTS to Debian's testing/stable approach.
- Lots of other devs use Ubuntu, so instructions are often focused on the distro
- It's always had all the drivers I need packaged with the distro
- Smaller projects are more likely to set up a PPA than host their own package repository.