Maybe what I’m looking for is the holy grail, but what do you guys suggest as a Distro with a good balance between stability and up-to-date packages?

  • @[email protected]
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    201 year ago

    NixOS would fit the bill if you’re not afraid of something different. With Nix it’s trivial to cherry pick from unstable channel if you still want a stable base.

      • Justin
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        1 year ago

        tbf neither does Fedora.

        But yeah, I would recommend either Debian or NixOS, depending on how stable you want it.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        Is this not solved by using the “unstable” nixpkgs channel or is that something different?

        I’m a NixOS newbie and still learning a lot about it haha

        • 2xsaiko
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          31 year ago

          The stable branches promise no breaking changes (in configuration options etc.). Unstable is a rolling release with everything that entails (personally I use it on desktops and stable on servers).