Spectacle8011

Spectacle8011, 1 year ago

Anything that isn’t Arch.

• Ubuntu’s package managers won’t stop fighting with each other so I can’t complete an upgrade easily. Also, I hate apt. Trusting prebuilt binaries from PPAs seems a little dangerous to me compared to trusting build scripts in the AUR, so I don’t feel comfortable with that. I do like it otherwise, though.
• Linux Mint is fine, I guess, but no Wayland yet and I don’t like Cinnamon. Same PPA issues. Has some more outdated packages than Ubuntu.
• openSUSE is great, but the package managers won’t stop fighting with each other and it’s lacking a few packages. I like the Open Build System a lot less than the AUR.
• Fedora is fine, while missing some packages, but it broke on me after a week and I had no idea how to fix it so I stopped using it.
• Pop_OS makes everything about GNOME worse.
• Debian’s packages are too old.
• Manjaro is more work than Arch and the packages are out of sync with the AUR.
• The packages I want aren’t in Solus. Is this distro even still around?

And for distros I won’t consider trying:

• Gentoo is too much work.
• Qubes is too much work and I can’t play games on it.
• I don’t like any of the ZorinOS modifications and the packages are old.

Spectacle8011, 1 year ago

The main package I was thinking of was the kernel. I saw the recent Linux Experiment video by Nick and they were using a kernel version (6.1?) that was no longer supported nor an LTS.

Spectacle8011, 1 year ago

This is good to know. I’m more into rolling releases like Arch, Fedora, and openSUSE anyway, so the latest Ubuntu’s packages tend to be a bit old for me anyway.