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Linux middle ground? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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so a common claim I see made is that arch is up to date than Debian but harder to maintain and easier to break. Is there a good sort of middle ground distro between the reliability of Debian and the up-to-date packages of arch?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Arch is easy to maintain and is stable enough. Of course you can make Arch unstable if you do greedy stuff, but if you use like a normal person, it will be fine

It's using Arch for 5 years now and I never broke my system, for example

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Arch lacks consistency as they are constantly pushing the latest versions of everything. If you want that then that is fine but calling is stable is not really arcuate. They entire system is changing and updates are pushed weekly. You also can't setup automatic updates safely.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I called it "stable enough". For a home user, it's stable enough. It's a myth that Arch will break every update or it is unstable. Arch is as unstable or stable as you make it be.

You also can't setup automatic updates safely

That's partially true. If you're trying to run a server, yeah, don't set any automatic update. If you're home user, you may do it and you'll be fine, but be aware of your system.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It is updated almost everyday. That doesn't seem very stable as it is constantly changing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Well, it is. Is so stable that many of Arch users install Arch once and don't have to format the computer again in years.

Of course you can't say that Arch is as stable as Debian, cause it's not. But it's totally unfair compare these distros, cause the use cases are completely different.

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