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Isaac wrote: ↑Fri Jun 21, 2024 12:55 pm

Jeff250 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 21, 2024 4:27 am I still use Ubuntu after all these years (since 2005), even though it is a bit "corporate" these days. Debian-based distros are generally the path of least resistance just because a *.deb is one of the most common ways to distribute linux software.

You don't feel there are more options under the AUR repo?

Jeff250 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 21, 2024 7:11 pm

Isaac wrote: ↑Fri Jun 21, 2024 12:55 pm

Jeff250 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 21, 2024 4:27 am I still use Ubuntu after all these years (since 2005), even though it is a bit "corporate" these days. Debian-based distros are generally the path of least resistance just because a *.deb is one of the most common ways to distribute linux software.

You don't feel there are more options under the AUR repo?

I don't know which has more (or how to even define exactly the question), but there are tradeoffs using AUR packages versus first party ones. The AUR packages are third party, which has pros and cons. The pro is that you can get packaging issues fixed via typical open source methods. The con is that you have no first party support.

More broadly, I don't like rolling release distros. I like being able to have more control over when I have large updates that might break something or cause me to have to learn something new at an inconvenient time. I also don't think that rolling release is a good model for servers, so you would still need to learn and use another distro for those. Rolling release distros also tend to get into a non-updatable state if you fall too far behind on updates. I wouldn't want to put Arch on anything that might be sitting idle on a shelf for months at a time. The advantages of rolling release don't really appeal to me either. For instance, in my eyes, my desktop environment of choice already solved the problem of the perfect desktop UI ages ago, so I am not expecting nor desiring any new innovations in that area.

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Isaac wrote: ↑Fri Jun 21, 2024 9:07 pm Just to defend AUR, I see it as just 1 of 4 different sources. The standard pacman repos work just the same as you'd expect from a deb from launchpad. Then you have snap and flatpack repos. AUR shouldn't be what your whole system is built on, rather just a few programs that you want compiled on your system.

Isaac wrote: ↑Fri Jun 21, 2024 9:07 pmI'd pick AUR over snap any day just to avoid the whole container-like aspect.

Isaac wrote: ↑Fri Jun 21, 2024 9:07 pm Also being rolling release and arch based isn't always the same thing as there are non-rolling release distros that are arch based (I have no idea what they are, but they exist to help my argument ) and use AUR.

TigerRaptor wrote: ↑Thu Jun 27, 2024 6:57 pm Has anyone heard of Blend OS? It's a combination of nine distros along with Andriod crammed into one.

https://blendos.co/

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