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Maybe what I'm looking for is the holy grail, but what do you guys suggest as a Distro with a good balance between stability and up-to-date packages?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah I've been pretty happy with Mint. It's a deb/Ubuntu base but they add some stuff plus still provide packaged versions of various desktop apps that Ubuntu has pushed to using snaps for (which I hate)