Subj : Re: Which version of Linux?
To   : Accession
From : esc
Date : Sat Nov 26 2022 09:13 pm

 Ac> While arch is a rolling distro, and tends to get new packages pretty
 Ac> fast, it's still not really "bleeding edge" although it's probably about
 Ac> as close as you're going to get without compiling as soon as said
 Ac> maintainers release. In Arch, the latest and greatest is still tested
 Ac> quite a bit before being allowed into the package management system.

Mmmm, not sure I 100% agree with this. :)

Upstream changes make their way into the pacman repos pretty fast, typically. As an example, 16 days ago there was a systemd update which broke secure boot in a number of BIOSes and was first discovered downstream by Arch users, and it took until six days ago to actually fix.

This happened several months ago with grub using EFI boot in a similar way; Arch /users/ first discovered it (not beta testers) and it took some time to roll out a fix. In fact, they never did roll out a fix; they rolled out some mitigation docs and called it a day.

Having used Arch for desktop purposes for several years on and off, it's my favorite desktop distro, but I definitely feel like I'm as bleeding edge as anyone can be without manually downloading and installing packages from github at every approved PR.

 Ac> In the world of Linux, where people like to argue about the dumbest
 Ac> things like which distro is the best and why it's better than Windows,
 Ac> it's really the _only_ answer. When one has the urge to try out Linux,
 Ac> they should take the time and have the patience to try out as many
 Ac> distros as they possibly can until they find the one they like the best.

Agree with you here. One nice thing about linux is also that there are certain "flavors" which really lend themselves well to specific applications; Windows has no such thing. Debian for servers? Gentoo for desktops? Great. Go for it. I do feel like the community has come around quite a bit from the previous stance of distro elitism, but I sense some of it at times still.

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