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   👺防空識別區👹 (adiz@mtl.jinxian.casa)'s status on Saturday, 31-May-2025 22:40:36 JST 👺防空識別區👹

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   @arcana I always found openSUSE really reliable. Especially considering the BTRFS Snapper support configured out of the box. Tumbleweed, indeed being "leading edge", did break on me a couple times on update, but it was a simple matter of rolling back to a previous state and waiting for non-breaking package updates to get released a couple days later. @lucy @meeper

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     👺防空識別區👹 (adiz@mtl.jinxian.casa)'s status on Saturday, 31-May-2025 22:40:43 JST 👺防空識別區👹

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     @arcana I run Debian nowadays so nothing really ever breaks ever because nothing gets updated. Simple as. @lucy @meeper

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     meeper (meeper@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 31-May-2025 22:40:43 JST meeper

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     @adiz @arcana @lucy
     
     Seriously thinking about moving from arch for this reason, is nixos good?
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     👺防空識別區👹 (adiz@mtl.jinxian.casa)'s status on Saturday, 31-May-2025 22:41:09 JST 👺防空識別區👹

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     @meeper Never tried NixOS. I understand it's a very different approach to Linux and you basically have to build the system off configuration files in the Nix Language or whatever. The people I know who run it say it has a steep learning curve but that that thereafter their experience is wonderful. I've no real desire to involve myself with it; I think my time and energy is better spent focused towards something more productive. You could ask @mischievoustomato about NixOS, he uses it and is quite knowledgeable.

     I used to run openSUSE Tumbleweed for the longest time and it was always very reliable. But, I've always had an affinity for Debian and since going 100% all-in with Debian on both my desktop and servers I'm very happy with it. It's a traditional, clean Linux experience that is very straightforward and coherent without breakage or always having to troubleshoot and fix things. @arcana @lucy

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     meeper (meeper@shitposter.world)'s status on Saturday, 31-May-2025 22:41:09 JST meeper

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     @adiz @arcana @lucy @mischievoustomato I didn't like opensuse not having a good way to change which packages are installed explicitly and which as dependencies and that kinda pushed me away from it and back to arch, tbh aside from -Syu breakage shenanigens arch is fairly nice
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Saturday, 31-May-2025 22:44:42 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @meeper @arcana @adiz @lucy for me what annoys me from opensuse is yast/their custom stuff. Also zypper is quite slow when downloading for me...
     NixOS is a great OS for me and the only linux I can use comfortably, but learning it has a very steep curve but it's as powerful as it is hard to learn. I have a lot of configuration set up, from nixOS' own knobs, overlays (package modifications, adding or modifying), my own module (configuration setting). I can even configure gnome using nixOS, i set up extensions, gtk3 theme, and configure both extensions and gnome using the dconf module home-manager has. It's majestic.
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     👺防空識別區👹 (adiz@mtl.jinxian.casa)'s status on Saturday, 31-May-2025 23:02:03 JST 👺防空識別區👹

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     @mischievoustomato Meanwhile I just run standard Debian with binary packages and stock GNOME + a few GNOME extensions. I'm a simple boomer man. @arcana @lucy @meeper

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