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Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb? (www.jeffgeerling.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] 6 points 3 years ago (13 children)

Is there even a Debian based distro that is up to date like Fedora, does not have snaps and does not have "Unstable" in its name?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Siduction. It is rolling release though.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Not a huge fan of rolling releases but Ubuntu/Debian are too far behind, Fedora is a very nice middle ground.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    My best middle ground is openSUSE tumbleweed. It is a rolling release but very reliable. Its not bleeding edge. It has snapshots which function like very small stable releases every few days insteqd of every package being updated individually. Every such snapshot has automatic testing. So all in all, very stable for a rolling release.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Just checked their website and it seems like they're using debian sid packages. What's the difference between using siduction and plain debian sid, besides having a preconfigured desktop?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    I never used siduction, im juat aware of its existence. I think they add some stability(=reliability) on top of sid and also keep updating packages during sid's freezes. Dont quote me on this.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (4 children)

    Mint?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Mint isn't super up-to-date, which if you want the cutting edge kernel/mesa for gaming is not great, but it's a solid choice, and I 🥰 them for keeping all of the Snap shit out of core.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    Does Mint still use the Ubuntu packages?

    As @addie@feddit.uk mentioned they are way out of date for gaming on AMD, especially if you purchase a new GPU at some point.

    I switched from Ubuntu to Fedora when I got my 6900 XT because it would have taken another 2-3 months for Ubuntu to catch up to a kernel version where I could use it.

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