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Re:Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with acc... by jstanley on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @05:21AM (#45963375)
In my experience the problem with Debian is that sooner or later you're bound to want to use something that is only 5 years old and therefore not included yet, so you end up having to install it from source or something else, but something doesn't quite work right so you have to hack it one way or another, and over time all this cruft adds up and you end up with a broken system caused precisely because the base distro refused to change fast enough.
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Re:Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with acc... by embedding-shape on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @05:40AM (#45963469)
I no longer use Debian, but when I did, I always used Debian Testing, never had any major issues that weren't my own fault, and packages are way more up-to-date. Worth trying if you're in that ecosystem still, and you want later stuff than 1-2 years old softwrae.
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Re:Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with acc... by Sharlin on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @05:50AM (#45963530)
When I used Debian on desktop, I never used anything but unstable. It was never unstable except maybe in a very relative sense.
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Re:Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with acc... by carlos_rpn on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @06:41AM (#45963848)
Lots of Linux software these days are also distributed as flatpack or appimage, and appimage in particular is dead simple if what you want has it available: place the file wherever on the path, make it executable, and done.
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Re:Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with acc... by natebc on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @05:41AM (#45963474)
brew is a decent compromise between "breaking debian" and running newer stuff and newer versions of things for desktop use at least.

For servers, we just use containers.

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