And that’s the story of why I switched to Arch <3
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  • somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    Or mint, if you’re a newbie

    Honestly, i don’t like debian and it’s derivatives because they focus on stability, and that means packages in the repos get outdated really quick. I’d love a distro that combines a debian base and the rolling release model of arch.

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      24 hours ago

      I know it’s not exactly what you’re asking for but fedora is reaaaally nice. I don’t think I’ve had a single “unstable” package and it’s kept up to date really well. The only concern I have with it is red hat, I’m just hoping they don’t decide to enshittify

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        22 hours ago

        True, fedora is both up to date and stable. The main reason i came to arch anyways was the AUR, ArchWiki and the need to spice things up a bit. I also like how customizable the whole distro is. Because it’s basically a house’s materials and the blueprint, i can make whatever the hell i want to it :)

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        22 hours ago

        I’ve been using Fedora for 3 years now…loved the dnf way of dealing with packages and the upgrades were painless…the only thing that bothers me is my nvidia card…I have issues with games on steam and every update seems to mess with the nvidia kernel module somehow…so…

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          10 hours ago

          What issue? I switched a friend to fedora KDE wayland and installed the rpmfusion drivers and it’s been fine (40 series)

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          13 hours ago

          Im in the same boat and I regret buying NVIDIA.

          I’m not a gamer but NVIDIA issues rear their head on Wayland mostly for things that need 3D rendering like Bambu Studio and even Electron apps like Slack, Spotify and VSCode.

          Oh and also trying to get hardware video decoding working on Firefox is a pain. I’m now at the point where full screening a video just causes Firefox to immediately crash.

          Definitely getting AMD next time but I’m a long ways off upgrading my NUC, it’s 8 core i7 with 64gb of ram so will serve my dev needs for a long time

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          17 hours ago

          If you’re using Linux for gaming, why not try Bazzite? It’s immutable, which is… Contentious. But it’s one of the best plug-and-play distros for gaming, with Nvidia support right out of the box.

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            15 hours ago

            I’m not just using it for gaming…I use it mostly for work … but I wanted to play a game or two eventually…that’s why I picked a general distro like fedora

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      You can always use sid. Or debian stable but you do everything that needs bleeding edge in a distrobox.

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      23 hours ago

      True, the apt packages can get outdated (or are already outdated at release time :) ). But tbh, for me that mainly affects the desktop environment these days and KDE is already pretty neat anyway. The CLI tools I use don’t change as much anymore, and the GUI tools are usually available as a flatpak so up-to-date.