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Re:Debian 11 by nitinreddy88 on Saturday August 14, 2021 @10:32PM (#28185792)
^ This is perfect statement why Arch will never replace workstations or server machines. Lot of people feel it's cool to fiddle around with file system/configuration to make it work (and they think thats cool Linux), it's not! You don't want to fiddle around with OS to make things work or just works out of the box. Debian is 100% suited for dev centric/work station centric environment once you configure, you can use it for years without worrying what might break tomorrow.
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Re:Debian 11 by burntsushi on Sunday August 15, 2021 @07:26AM (#28187891)
> once you configure, you can use it for years without worrying what might break tomorrow.

That has been exactly the case with me and Arch.

And your comment is not just wrong, but it's condescending too.

> Debian is 100% suited for dev centric/work station centric environment

You're way too overconfident. I use a Debian derivative at $work (because I don't have a choice), and we are constantly having to work around the fact that the software in its repos is ancient.

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Re:Debian 11 by carlhjerpe on Sunday August 15, 2021 @04:21PM (#28192174)
Or you can use NixOS where you define your entire system in a config file that'll enable you to have the same system configuration everywhere.

Once Nix flakes lands in stable it'll be interesting to see if NixOS can steal shares from the mainstream distros in any significant manner.

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Re:Debian 11 by emptysongglass on Sunday August 22, 2021 @04:22PM (#28269231)
I love NixOS but the way Flakes are written, it's not stealing mindshare from the mainstream distros anytime soon. Flakes could have been a chance to write Nix comprehensibly but it reads like a layer of complication on top an already complicated language model.
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