Subj : Which version of Linux?
To   : esc
From : Accession
Date : Sat Nov 26 2022 08:40 am

On 25 Nov 2022, esc said the following...
 
 es> I use Arch for my daily computing desktop needs and love it for that
 es> purpose, but it does tend to break once in a while and need some extra
 es> attention to get things working as expected. Debian and Ubuntu Server in
 es> my experience only have things break at major version upgrades, but
 es> that's the expectation (having a major version change requiring some
 es> manual intervention). And it's well documented. So that's why I prefer
 es> Debian or Ubuntu for my servers.

If I may ask, what tends to break on you once in awhile? In my experience, the only issues I've ever had is while upgrading, (and this doesn't happen very often, mind you) PGP keys aren't removed or some such and you have to install archlinux-keyring manually before continuing with a normal pacman upgrade.

Otherwise, I have nothing against Debian, especially for a server platform. It just doesn't 'tickle my fancy', lol. I think I've had more issues in the past with Ubuntu than anything else, but that was back when I still used a GUI and apparantly they phased out my video card at the time which took forever to figure out. By the time I did they were just starting to introduce the "legacy" drivers and any time you ran an upgrade (not even a major one) everything went to shit and had to spend hours fixing it. I'm sure it's a lot better now, but it still leaves a sour taste for me. Had I been using any other distro at the time I probably wouldn't have anything against Ubuntu either. ;)

Regards,
Nick

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