Gosh, it's the -upgrade time of my life again. That's like the time in a relationship when you are seriously in doubt about how much you can trust your partner.

, don't fail me

@hrisskar no way, I'm too used to debian... dist-upgrade is a pain, but for the rest I feel at home here =D

@arteteco From what I hear, is only good for earning L33t h4x0R points and street cred. :flower:

@hrisskar @arteteco Gentoo user here. It is a very flexible distro. Wouldn't change it anytime soon.

@thinkMoult @arteteco From my limited reading and hearsay, it sounds like (and its "hardcore" distro brethren , , and ) are excellent if you know what you're doing and are passionate about tinkering with the nuts 'n' guts of programming so you're not upset that your video-watching time is "interrupted" by an update breaking your customized xorg file, necessitating a Timeshift or loading carrying a backup of all your edited configs to copy-paste back into your main PC should anything screw with 'em. :mario_awe:

@hrisskar

yeah I'm very devote to debian, mostly because if something breaks I already know where to check and how to fix it, usually. But thanks for the tips!

What OS do you use?

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@arteteco @thinkMoult I'm still a newb to the world; I only recently installed over on my desktop, and I'm running on my laptop. I want to learn more and more for no other reason than it sounds pretty neat to be rolling with "1337"-tier operating systems. :blobcheer:

I almost chose instead of to replace (1 because I was bored of Mint and 2 broke on it and instead of trying to fix it I used KDE falling apart on me as an excuse to try something new) but I wanted to experience for myself.

I might try Debian if the AUR doesn't impress me since I've heard the stable branch of Debian is "basic, but rock-solid" (perfect for my desktop; then I can experiment with my laptop) and I'm already well-used to apt-get and so on.

@hrisskar

Yeah the main advantage of the debian repo is that there is a lot of stuff in them that will not fuck up your computer (if you use stable, that is). Downside is that is often terribly outdated, like years behind, but for that software you can oftentimes just add their repo and go from there.

In the end is a matter of personal tastes. I am looking for something solid that gets out of my way while I do my work and that is reliable and fast.

is an excellent OS, and community is great

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