What Linux distribution or distributions do you personally use?

I myself am a daily Void user. I used to use Devuan, but wanted to try rolling release and ended up loving Void!

  • Drew@sopuli.xyz
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    2 years ago

    Wait what do you mean debian doesn’t have newer packages? I’ve never used it. Do the packages only get updated on a distro update?

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      2 years ago

      Yes and no. They seem to prioritize stability and security over everything else. So they usually only push updates to the stable repo if it doesn’t compromise those 2 points (so new features are okay but so long as they don’t create new instability or at the very least fix a security flaw).

      So in other words nothing there is particularly ancient but most things are several versions behind just due to bugs being found etc. Great for servers but on a desktop most people wouldn’t notice these kind of bugs so they tend to get pushed in other distro’s a lot sooner.

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      I think so. They get freezed at some time on unstable (I think?). Then, if you need a newer (major version) of a package you need some other package source than the default Debian one to get it.