Re:I'm Done with Ubuntu
by sevensor on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @11:32AM
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Although I love Arch and use it on my main laptop, if you’re like me and you have a closet full of geriatric thinkpads, Debian is great. The one thing Arch / pacman struggles with is long intervals between updates, so if I boot a machine every three months, I’d rather have an OS in a state that was planned to persist for years.
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Re:I'm Done with Ubuntu
by Dansvidania on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @11:59AM
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This is so true. I had wondered if it was just me somehow messing my various manjaro/arch machines.
Coming back to a hobby laptop and finding it unable to function because mirrors have been updated or whatever was a really painful thing to find out after a few months away.
Re:I'm Done with Ubuntu
by latentcall on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @11:39AM
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Debian has been amazing for my fleet of geriatric ThinkPads… my T60 and X200 are my favorites to use.
Debian has also been a nice alternative. Lots of open options and compatible in most ways.
NixOS suffers a little from rapid upstream changes like Arch. You can pin nixpkgs and bump when you feel like it (or when a version of something isn’t recent enough), which is great.
However, bumping every three months always renders my configuration broken because of some expression being deprecated. One time it was how pulseaudio got enabled. Last it was how nerdfonts were organised.
I like how nixpkgs gets better. I don’t like thinking “I guess I’m not upgrading packages tonight, I’ll just roll back.”