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    [–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    I mean, I'm on Debian and I'm on the same install instance I've had for almost four years now. I'm constantly reading about how some of you people keep hosing your other distros with a normal update...

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Four years? Some rookie numbers you got there.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Maybe they mean four year uptime...

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

    Some of us were riding Windows 7 into the ground, specifically when Steam stopped supporting it.

    • Recent Ubuntu convert, even more recent Debian convert
    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Real. Though sometimes running a recent version of something is a real challenge, unless it ships in appimage. If it’s a small program you can usually backport the package from unstable or just build it yourself, but if it depends on some rust or js libraries or whathaveyou you have to do so much crap you might as well just be running trixie

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    Couldn't Distrobox get you through that?

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

    Sure, but honestly I hate the idea of having different runtimes. That’s the reason why I like neither snaps nor flatpaks.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

    Lol, I ran 5 years on arch without a break.

    Now 6 months of Bazzite without a break.

    I think the age of distros shipping severely broken updated is over. And it was always, ALWAYS grub that broke after an update on mint and opensuse 10 years ago for me.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

    I'm hitting 4 on a rolling release