Best rolling release distro?
I have Debian stable right now, and I want more recent packages to be quite honest. Should I move on to Debian testing? Maybe Arch? I don't mind a learning curve if it means I can have full control.
Best rolling release distro?
Hudson Watson
Jack Richardson
Gentoo.
Camden Howard
Debian testing? Maybe Arch? Hell, even Ubuntu LTS would be an uprade to newer packages.
Cameron Robinson
I installed Arch using the Antergos live ISO. Ez-Pz compared to fucking with Arch's official ISO. Just dd the minimal Antergos ISO into a flash drive and open up a terminal and follow Arch's installation instructions.
Arch is really not that hard to use. Maybe the hardest part you'd experience is installing it, and that is not really tough if you've played around with Linux for a while.
Jaxson Edwards
fedora
Carter Powell
You what now? You used the Antergos ISO and still did the install by terminal instead of using Cnchi?
Aiden Allen
Well, I wouldn't mind doing a terminal install and all that, especially since I want to minimize bloat. Is Antergos worth it or should I go completely fresh install?
Easton Kelly
I used it to install Arch. It has Arch's mirrors AFAIK and it gave me a legit Arch system.
Antergos is fine as well. If you go with Antergos, you can choose to go with a minimal system in the graphical installer. I merely used the live ISO+terminal to install Arch.
Michael Kelly
Gentoo.
William Sullivan
crux
Nolan Ramirez
Just use backports for whichever package you care about having a more recent version of. (I bet there's not more than five or six, if you're being honest with yourself) Rolling-release distros are for making things easier on the developers at the expense of making things harder for you.
Dylan Thompson
>meme distro
not OP
Liam Thomas
bump for interest
Easton Long
Gentoo
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Christian Mitchell
openSUSE Tumbleweed
Isaiah Garcia
>meme distro
I've had less problems with gentoo than with arch
Ayden Wood
Came to say this.
Ryder Gutierrez
Arch's packages are each individually bloated
Connor Scott
>debian testing
wow, you're a retard
Jayden Young
Debian unstable.
Don't be fooled by the name, it's far more stable than Arch and if you do ever need support the community doesn't consist of teenagers who get bullied at school either
Blake Mitchell
what is the best trolling release distro?
Josiah Kelly
Brayden Diaz
Void Linux
Zachary Rogers
This
Alexander Martinez
These
Ayden Garcia
Arch
Jacob Martin
this meme is growing on me tbqhwyf
Thomas Mitchell
this
Dominic Hughes
>debian stable
use fucking testing you dipshit. stable is for servers. are you using stable on a fucking desktop?
Jaxson Harris
Once you get your gentoo install working and stable, it will remain so for a long time with minimal maintenance. I use it on my desktop and arch on my laptop, but am seriously considering just using it for both.
Andrew Gomez
I can see using it on a powerful desktop as compiling probably wouldn't take that long but on a laptop? Sounds like you're asking for trouble.
Jose Walker
not him but I am, precisely because I don't want to deal with the bullshit I'd have to on a rolling distro. Having a system that needs little-to-no ongoing maintenance is just as desirable on a desktop as it is on a server. What's so goddamned urgent that you need bleeding-edge shit? I'd wager money that if I switched your kernel out for 4.9 LTS you'd never notice unless your package manager or screenfetch told you it wasn't 4.16.
Angel Cooper
It would be time consuming, however the idea is that after the initial installation and setup you wouldn't need to rapidly download packages, and you could simply let updates run overnight.