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Written by Eugenia L on 2024-12-28 at 18:44

My Minime ate lots of omega-3s with pastured lamb brains & salmon for lunch (I cook for her the best of the best), and this afternoon she installed 5 OSes on this #Thinkpad X280: Debian-Testing, #ElementaryOS, #Pop_OS a4, #Mint 22.1, and Haiku-nightly. With tomorrow's offal meal she should be able to start coding!

[#]inux #opensource #foss #caturday #CatsOfMastodon #haiku #linuxmint #popos #operatingsystem #debian #geek #refind

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Written by Saverio Brancaccio on 2024-12-29 at 09:35

@eugenialoli it seems you really like Debian and its derivatives... have you ever tried CachyOS (Arch Based)? I'm using it on my laptop and it is really impressive, all works out of the box (also suspend and external monitor). It also has a great community and Wiki:

https://cachyos.org

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Written by Eugenia L on 2024-12-29 at 09:40

@saveriobran I don't like Arch at all, sorry. I reinstalled it again recently, and it was buggy as hell (you can read it in an older toot here). I like rock solid systems without me having to go dig to find out what happened. To me, that's unacceptable for an OS today. So Arch and Arch-based distros are out for me, and so is Fedora (not nearly as unstable as Arch, mostly, attention to detail is missing).

Haiku and Elementary have bugs in my setup here, but they're there for testing only.

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Written by Saverio Brancaccio on 2024-12-29 at 09:47

@eugenialoli I have the same feeling. Anyway with small attention to these points I had a stable system in the last 3/4 years with Arch:

1. Do not use AUR (Arch User Repository) because it is not kept in line with upstream updates (the system won't break for incompatibilities).

2. Use Flatpak or another portable system if you need a software not in the upstream repos.

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Written by Eugenia L on 2024-12-29 at 10:16

@saveriobran To me, Arch was unstable with its own packages, I didn't use AUR. https://mastodon.social/@eugenialoli/113595269282354954

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Written by Eugenia L on 2024-12-29 at 10:18

@saveriobran The only rolling release that has been rock stable for me is Debian-Testing. I've been running it since April, and had zero issues. Literally zero. Debian-testing is actually tested, it's their experimental and Sid branches that are unstable and they're closer to the Arch stability. Debian-Testing brings you both newer packages and stability, so I use that as my main OS now on my workstations. And I use Mint for laptops, because it's better equipped for that.

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