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Linux middle ground? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by Bunny19@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And yet I never do and it hardly ever does. And if it does, it's more often than not application specific and fixed by loading a snapshot and updating again after a week or so, which is next to 0 effort.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That takes my time which is valuable. I want it to work and stay up to date.

[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

It does not and whatever distro you choose, it will not.