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   seungjin (seungjin@mstd.seungjin.net)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 15:47:03 JST seungjin

   A guy on YouTube switched his Linux distro from Debian to Arch because he said Neovim on Debian is outdated. He'd be better off learning how to install from source and package it himself before switching to another distro. He may end up spending his entire life switching Linux distros rather than actually learning #Linux.

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     Hagarashi8 (hagarashi8@allthingstech.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 15:47:03 JST Hagarashi8

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     @seungjin Well, it's good to learn it, but losing your one-command-update-all privileges is big enough downside to not consider it for some people, myself included.

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     Ian Wagner (ianthetechie@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 15:47:34 JST Ian Wagner

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     @seungjin I see many people for whom distro hopping is an unacknowledged addition which prevents them from getting anytbing done.

     That said, you can and should expect everything to be “outdated” on Debian. It’s kind of a primary feature. You get just security updates. No major software changes otherwise in the base packages.

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