You see, hexbear has been moving towards :tux: for quite a while now and it's scaring the :LIB:s and the :fedposting:s so expect a lot of anti-Linux posting and just nod your head and don't engage :penguin-dance:
You see, hexbear has been moving towards :tux: for quite a while now and it's scaring the :LIB:s and the :fedposting:s so expect a lot of anti-Linux posting and just nod your head and don't engage :penguin-dance:
Teach me your ways. I feel like everytime I upgrade my Ubuntu server, some random dependency gets broken.
Ubuntu breaks harder than arch for me usually. No clue what it is. Typically if arch breaks, the issue will be on the front page of arch.org and fixed almost right away. most issues clear up in under 5 minutes.
When Ubuntu breaks it tends to break harder and be more annoying to fix for some reason, in my experience its because the packages on the repos are too stable and so it takes a while for a fix to hit downstream.
That's a really good point. I often find myself having to add some random non-official repo just to get the correct version of some dependency, then a couple of years down the line that repo gets quietly deprecated and I have to scramble to figure out what's going on.
Thats why I really like the more user friendly arch based distros. Installing from scratch has gotten a lot easier than when i first did it, and after my first real arch install I just used antergos until that project closed. Now that the install is easier, I just DIY it but like I said, my installs last a while.
My laptops install is still antergos from 2016, my desktop was fresh 2 years ago when I bought an ssd, and I threw it on a chromebook after chromeos support dropped.
I typically use ubuntu if A: trying to match compatibility with coworkers, or B: want to do Linux gaming without reading a wiki for an hour, or C: its plugged into the TV for streaming stuff.
I love arch for dev tasks but bare arch can be annoying if you set it up 2 years ago and relied on Ethernet then, and now wonder why you have zero wifi related packages. That was a half lie about my wifi card, I did need to install packages on arch but no drivers. Ubuntu was literally out of the box.
Generally though, Arch is very reliable just because it only has what you installed. If you use care and like semi minimal installs it will last forever if you update every few months. It gets complicated when you add tons of stuff without the will to manage it. The AUR is great for weird packages too, you don't have to manually manage tarball installs and random debs.