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A comment on Google’s in-house desktop Linux. Parent comment

Re:Google’s in-house desktop Linux by brnt on Monday August 01, 2022 @05:25PM (#32312225)
I thought distros were stable until I tried Debian stable... It's stable! I use it everywhere, even my dev machine. Might switch to testing though on the dev machine, 2-3 years of no user software updates is a long time. I know it's unreasonable to ask, but a yearly new stable would be the best of all worlds.
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Re:Google’s in-house desktop Linux by rovr138 on Monday August 01, 2022 @07:15PM (#32313335)
May I ask where you feel it the most?

For me it’s definitely been browsers and IDE’s, but I just install those to /opt.

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Re:Google’s in-house desktop Linux by brnt on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @01:42AM (#32315504)
A notoriously finicky piece of software is Akonadi. If you use KDEs otherwise impeccable PIM software (underappreciated if you ask me!) you are probably very familiar with Akonadis random hangs and crashes and corruption. Debian is the first distro where it has been working steadily for more than a few weeks. Steadier than KDEs own Neon and flatpaks.
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