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Linux middle ground? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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so a common claim I see made is that arch is up to date than Debian but harder to maintain and easier to break. Is there a good sort of middle ground distro between the reliability of Debian and the up-to-date packages of arch?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The downside with the Atomic variants is that ostree is much slower and takes additional storage and bandwidth. It isn't half bad if you are willing to reboot but it does add an additional layer of complexity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I really need to try NixOS, it may be good?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is very complicated for little value add. I would much rather use Ansible or bash scripting.

Ansible is useful in particular as it is much more repeatable and you can use Ansible pull to pull from a git repo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The thing is package management, resettability, rebasing/redeploying with a config file, and avoiding config file creep.

I broke 10 distros before, and of course I also learned, but I simply didnt break Fedora Atomic Desktops in 2 years or so.

But I layer about 20 packages, which is not a really nice process on Atomic, while it works for sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I use Fedora silver blue and it is mostly solid. However, it isn't something I would jump into without an interest in immutable Linux or embedded systems.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I think Silverblue is the perfect distro for random computers you never manage.

Actually uBlue silverblue as they fix the like 5 issues there are, like an intelligent and actually automatic updater, flathub, drivers etc.