• ratel@mander.xyz
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    2 days ago

    When I have even the smallest bit of time and headspace to dedicate to it, I will switch back to Debian as it was always my favourite but really can’t deal with it at the moment.

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      2 days ago

      Linux Mint Debian Edition is just great for that case. If I were not so much into fedora’s rpm-ostree I would be using that, or MX Linux.

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        2 days ago

        If I were not so much into fedora’s rpm-ostree

        Dude, right? I’ve thought about switching to cachy or something, but every time I just can’t bring myself to give up ostree.

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          1 day ago

          Silverblue manages to be exciting yet boring.

          As in, it is great for everyday work yet still uses newfangled tech under the hood.

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            19 hours ago

            I think I’m lucky in that I only had about 1.5-2 years of experience with an Arch-based distro (EndeavourOS) before switching to Bazzite, so I didn’t have to unlearn years (if not decades) of traditional Linux work flows before trying to grasp the new tech.

            And I love it. Anything that I’ve wanted to tinker with so far has been tinkerable, it’s often just a different process than on a non-atomic or immutable distro.

            And aside from that, it’s insanely stable. It’s almost impossible to break it by accident, and if you do, it has instant, failsafe rollbacks.

            Anyway, I know I don’t have to sell you on it lol.

            The other day I was looking into “Blue Build” which allows to build your own custom Universal Blue spins, as I was wondering if it were possible to have Bazzite but with the Cachy kernel.

            I think that’s a bit over my head at the moment though haha

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      2 days ago

      I like Debian, it is boring in the best way.

      I really did not like the process of upgrading from one stable version of Debian to the next. It went OK, but i remember being anxious the whole time, compared to Ubuntu’s gui workflow, and failing that, the one-command cli version that i always have to look up

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        2 days ago

        I love a boring OS that just works for 90% of things and you just live with whatever the other 10% is - usually some driver quirks or peripheral funk.

        I’ve never used the gui for upgrade but I also have a hard time remembering do-make-release.