Re:My next Mac might be the last
by hot_gril on Monday October 24, 2022 @04:36PM
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I'm a SWE, I've been a DBA and a sysadmin, and I've been using Linux on servers for a long time, but on the desktop I'm just a user who doesn't care to understand the inner workings of the stuff that's supposed to just work for me. This KDE, GNOME, XFCE, X vs Wayland, Unity, whatever GUI stuff is way too confusing, not worth my time. And just sticking to the default in Ubuntu doesn't help much when even that keeps changing a ton, which is unbelievable. Why?
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I feel like I’ve got conflicting desires here. On one hand, I just want everything to work, and everything to stay the same, just like what you describe. On the other hand, there are a dozen or two dozen packages which I want always up to date. Most of them are development tools. Any distro which is good at one is bad at the other.
I'd expect that the most stable distro could run the latest versions of those tools too. Do the tools depend on the latest desktop environment or something?
The stable distro can run those tools, but how do I keep them up to date? I could mix a stable Debian base with specific tools from unstable, but my experience is that this sometimes results in problems.