• badgermurphy@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          I am one of those people, but I’m still annoyed when my tools don’t work right. I hate having to fix something, only to find out that my tool I need for that also needs repairs. I use my computer’s primarily as tools, so I almost always am at least a little annoyed when my computer demands attention all of a sudden.

          Maybe there are others that are hobbyists. I guess if you’re a computer tinkerer primarily, troubleshooting that crap can be like cultivating a zen garden, but it is the opposite for me.

        • timestatic@feddit.org
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          7 months ago

          Yeah but I like to tinker when I chose to tinker. Not randomly when I’m trying to get work done

    • poke@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      Yeah, that’s me comfortably sitting on Bazzite right now. There are definitely ways for it to improve, but I’ve only really ever had one issue in the last few months, and that was fixed the next week. I just get to use my computer, and it’s nice.

      • ilillilillilillililli@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Did you also have an issue booting due to some network driver issue on 43.20260309? I had to rpm-ostree rollback to 43.20260217 a couple weeks ago. Besides that, Bazzite has indeed been very smooth sailing.

        • poke@sh.itjust.works
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          7 months ago

          Ah, thankfully I didn’t run into that one. I have a goxlr and they broke it for 2 weeks so I did a manual rollback until it was fixed, because having audio is kinda nice.

  • vga@sopuli.xyzBanned
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    7 months ago

    NixOS – now I’ve finally found the endgame distro!

    several days later CachyOS is actually much simpler.

    • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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      7 months ago

      Debian Testing kinda sucks, it’s like the worst of both worlds of Debian and Arch; updates for some packages can be held back for months because of some blocker, while stable at least gets fastracked to important fixes for security or system stability, and Sid just naturally gets them faster because it’s more up to date. Sid is probably better overall, but why use an unstable rolling release without all the convenience that Arch’s tools offer? AFAIK pacman is really nice for stuff like making your own packages. Plus it has a much larger user base than Debian Sid, which helps when you’re looking for a fix for recent issues.

      • jabjoe@feddit.ukEnglish
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        7 months ago

        I’ve found Testing works rather well as a compromise. It’s actually very stable, while most of the time, constantly updating. It’s only during freeze time it stops noticeably changing. At unfreeze, there is a load at once, but it’s yet to be a real problem for me in like 15y. SID is a bit too bleeding edge for my liking. The Arch and SID guys can be on the front line, that’s fine. I thank them for their service, but I don’t want it quite as interesting as that.

        • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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          7 months ago

          Well, you do you. My Debian Testing install was my only bare metal install that ever broke because of an update (not to say that Arch etc. would have been any better, I just haven’t been using rolling release distros since then).

  • John_CalebBradberton@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Do people really be using Slackware these days? I’m on Bazzite atm and it’s cool but a bit different esp with the ostree stuff.

    Curious what the use case is for Slackware nowadays

    • marcos@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Slack is great when you need to make something completely out of the ordinary. It’s right there just one step removed from a system from scratch without GNU.

      That said, embedded computers nowadays run full Debian. So I dunno what use it still has.

    • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.orgOP
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      7 months ago

      A few thousand people in the world, yes.

      It combines the stability of Debian with the simplicity of Arch, and turns both up to 11.
      Main selling point is that it never does anything unexpected.
      You set it up and then it works the way you’re used to, literally for decades.

    • Samskara@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      Feeling superior to Gentoo and Arch users.

      I see the main use case for Slackware, if you’re a Linux graybeard, who has used it for 20 years.