• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    83·
    1 year ago

    I started my Linux journey in the 90’s with Red Hat Halloween. I’m sick and tired of troubleshooting and Debian based distros have been fully painless. Those of you learning your craft should absolutely try to manage things like Arch, just leave my old and tired ass be and I’ll sit here with my old kernel and cheer you on.

    • RegalPotoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      Yup - if your goal is to use Linux to learn how Linux works and how it’s all put together then Arch is awesome. If you’ve got stuff to do and Linux is a tool to reach another goal, not so much. I like my tools to be stable, reliable and predictable.

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
    53·
    1 year ago

    Whenever you get bored:

    ~$ sudo docker run -it --rm archlinux bash
[root@5452124778b3 /]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core downloading...
 extra downloading...
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
      • anonono@lemmy.world
        21·
        1 year ago

        this coming from someone who used podman for years for hours for development every day.

        podman is cancer, it’s way better to use docker rootless.

        podman will break if you sneeze at it, and the only recourse you will find in github is to podman system reset which stinks of bad programming.

        docker rootless never breaks, podman may die if you cancel a download because the devs were either inexperienced or bad and instead of protecting the state with atomic filesystem operations they leave dirty files in working directories which make it fail in random and unexpected ways.

    • 🦄🦄🦄@feddit.de
      31·
      1 year ago

      Wait…is that all it takes to install arch in a docker container? Does this include a GUI or is it for terminal Haxxorz only?

  • aard@kyu.de
    422·
    1 year ago

    There’s the old saying that Debian is available in three flavours: Stale, rusting and broken.

  • bazzett@lemmy.world
    20·
    1 year ago

    I really like Debian, but for some reason my not-new-laptop didn’t liked it. Issues with suspend, the WiFi and the NVME drive made me to nuke it last Wednesday and in its place I installed Fedora, which seems to play better with the hardware. At least I don’t have problems with it in my desktop.

    • ComradeWeebelo@lemm.ee
      11·
      1 year ago

      If you’re running Debian stable, your hardware was probably too new for the kernel. Unless they changed their development paradigm when I last ran it, stable is always 2-3 years behind mainline Linux software aside from security patches. It’s one of the key reasons why it’s so stable.

      See the Don't Suffer from Shiny Stuff Syndrome on the official wiki.

      • bazzett@lemmy.world
        6·
        1 year ago

        I mean, my laptop is a Dell from 2018-2019 with a 8th gen Core i5, so I don’t think is too “new” 🤷🏻‍♂️.

        • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
          2·
          1 year ago

          That’s surprising. Dell should have good Linux driver support, seeing as they offer Ubuntu pre-installed in some markets.

          Saying that, we have work issued Dell Precision mobile workstations and there are constantly hardware and driver issues under Windows, where you’d expect things to work just fine…

          • the internal microphone not working (handy for meetings!)
          • the 3.5mm combo jack not working (ah, great, no backup for when the internal microphone stops working)
          • the battery handshake failing, causing the machine to not charge, stay stuck in a low performance mode, and constantly pop up Windows notifications saying the battery is not genuine
          • the presence sensor locking the laptop while you’re literally working it

          Now I use a USB headset, disabled the presence sensor, and reboot the laptop repeatedly until the battery is detected as genuine

    • NoXzema@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      For those missing context, Rossman uses a software that helps view the layout of Mac hardware… and it breaks literally constantly.

        • Goatastic@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          1 year ago

          I have been running Manjaro(I know not arch) and have been happy with it. But I will definitely give tumbleweed a look. I like knowing I have the latest versions of things.

        • hersh@literature.cafe
          2·
          1 year ago

          I would advise against any rolling distro if you use Nvidia drivers and CUDA. When I was using Tumbleweed it kept breaking with kernel updates. This was common in the forums. I had to pin my kernel to an older version to fix it. It was not ideal.

          I’ve come full circle back to Debian stable. I’m sure at some point I’ll need a newer package and be frustrated again. When the time comes, perhaps I’ll try distrobox if I can’t easily backport it.

      • Destide@feddit.ukEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        well tested rolling, you literally have the arch update wall of terminal every week but it is a bit more stable with great tools like snapper should anything go a bit wrong

    • TurboWafflz@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      I love opensuse and I’ve switched back to it from arch on two of my three computers, but the one thing I miss is the speed of pacman. I’ll be working on something with an arch user and need to install something new and by the time zypper has refreshed the repos, pacman will have completely finished the whole installation

  • bruhduh@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    Are you me?) P.s been daily driving arch for 5 years and now switching back to Debian