This is not a distro war.I want to discuss what is the best release model for OSs in general.>Stable releaseMake a snapshot of a repository at a given time, and cherry pick security patches only.Advantage: not making breaking changes for the users all the time.Disadvantage: not as up-to-date, a lot of packages end up becoming fairly custom as backports and cherry-picks are applied to the snapshot/fork.>Rolling release (contuinally update packages)Release software updates as they come.Advantage: more up-to-date, can be easier to maintain as you do not have to apply a lot of custom patches for e.g. security updates.Disadvantage: may introduce breaking changes to packages at any time.Which model do you principally prefer? for Desktop? for Server?
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>>106465630stable always for everything.
Debian is too outdated, Arch is too bleeding edge.I'd prefer something with monthly snapshots with support for only the newest one, but ample opportunity to not update if that's what you want.
>>106465630something in the middle. stable release with packages that aren't too old is perfect
>>106465630Stable but not as infrequent as Debian. OpenSUSE Slowroll is probably ideal but I use Fedora for other reasons so stuck with rolling release.
I personally think Ubuntu’s 9 month release cycle is just about perfect, you still get the newer features but without the instability of a rolling release.
every single person replying just wants fedora btw
Anything but Fedora works for me. Fedora KDE is a fucking mess, worked out of the box but shipped 2-3gb of updates from the first boot which went fine, the next day shipped another 2 gb of updates which borked my system and that's not the first time this happened with Fedora. Fedora, in my usage, is as bad as Arch when it comes to shipping shitty updates.
>>106465630I favour stable. An OS is no use if it crashes all the time. I don't care much for most new features in updates anyway, since a lot of it is useless and gets removed or modified or is broke until fixed or is a useless trend.-t.boomer
>>106466420Nah, I already use Fedora but I would prefer an Ubuntu or Slowroll cadence
>>106466118This was not me (OP) btw.
just use whatever works
>>106467056very insightful contribution, thanks
>>106467063no problem. i can make more posts if you would like
NixOS is the weird case where it's essentially rolling release, but the way packages are managed you don't have so many conflicts between different versions of things. The only tradeoff is disk space and learning the autism of nix.
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>>106465630Server: stablePC: rolling
>personnal userolling release, living on the edge is cool>profesional usethe most stable shit you can find, if internet is not requiered for the task, the computer should never be connected to it; security over functionality
>>106465630The problem with this>cherry pick security patches onlyIs that it cannot fundamentally work at a large scale, or arguably at any scale, because:>Not all packages announce when they fix security issues>Not all maintainers pay attention to such announcements>Unknown security issues may get unknowingly fixed by developers>The decision of what is an "important" enough security issue is left to maintainers. Some distros only backport critical CVEs or CVEs above a certain rating>The decision of what is a security issue at all is left to maintainers/developers. Sometimes no CVE == no backportSo in that regard, while the most critical CVEs and bugs will get backported, it's simply impossible for stable distros to be as secure as rolling-release ones, because of the design.Stable also means you have to deal with a whole bunch of package changes at once, instead of gradually over time (but always having to stay up-to-date). It's mostly a preference I guess.>>106466132>>106466346>>106466368You're probably looking for nixos-unstable. Entire package set updated weekly and all packages tested for compatibility with each other, but other than that it's bleeding edge.>>106467809NixOS also has stable channels like release-2505. But see my note above how the "security backporting" is just security theatre and meaningless for high assurance systems.
>>106466132opensuse slowroll fits the monthly part, not sure about support
>>106467809>>106467901These types of faggots are the same that go into posts of people starting out on Linux and try to groom them into NixOS early without them ever having any use for it btw.
>>106468041Not NixOS but Nixpkgs. World's largest software collection btw, larger than AUR and every other distro (except AUR) combined. Unstable updated weekly, stable updated every 6 months. Mix and match, pin packages from different snapshots. Stay on any snapshot indefinitely. Works on any Linux and macOS. Doesn't require learning or understanding the Nix language at all. What is bad about it?
