Subj : Windows to Linux
To   : Mike
From : Nicholas Boel
Date : Wed May 08 2024 06:16 am

On Mon, 6 May 2024 03:28:36 -0400, Mike -> Al Derosa wrote:

 M> I'm a former slackware and gentoo user. I use mainly Debian for my
 M> servers and and PopOS as my desktop.

I used Gentoo for quite some time, as well. It was fun while it lasted, but I 
ended up going to a binary package management system.

 M> Also, I like to focus on stable releases vs rolling releases. Just don't
 M> have the energy to troubleshoot rolling releases. Back in my day,
 M> sure..... No kids, no responsiblities, etc....

I remember Gentoo having a lot of issues if you weren't paying attention, so 
maybe that's where the "rolling release" got many of it's complaints from. 
However, I've been using Archlinux for over 10 years now, and have had to 
"troubleshoot" maybe three times in that entire duration. Many times there is a 
mail or announcement that a package may be bad and/or broke some dependencies, 
so if you want to avoid issues, don't upgrade for a couple days (until the 
problem is fixed).

Not being on a set schedule for upgrading or anything, it doesn't bother me one 
bit waiting another day, week, month, whatever to upgrade packages.

Regards,
Nick

.... Take my advice, I don't use it anyway.
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