PSA: DO NOT INSTALL xx.04 releases!!!

  • The .04 stands for “April”, commonly known for “April Fools”.
  • Many projects use the term “LTS”, meaning “Lies, Tricks, and Slander”. So called ‘Enterprise’ users often promote these releases to “own the noobs”. Be warned!
  • xxce2AAb@feddit.dk
    5119·
    1 day ago

    Or just use Debian, if you really enjoy the sluggishness and shitty dependency management of APT.

    Alternatively you could switch to Arch and the glory that is pacman (or, even better, yay).

    …But that’s none of my business.

    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
      58·
      1 day ago

      For a main desktop, absolutely.

      For low maintenance servers and vms? Staying with Debian.

      For a laptop on which Arch gives issues (mine where with battery when standby). POP-OS has been working well.

    • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
      36·
      1 day ago

      There are 2 wolves inside you.
      One uses the yay and can install anything from AUR.
      The other can install propreitery .deb packages your university vpn comes in to submit homeworks.

      There is a crow pulling both wolves by the tail called “bedrock linux” that can install packages using both apt and aur.

      The crow is the most dangerous.

      • jim3692@discuss.online
        17·
        1 day ago

        Bedrock Linux requires you to change distro.

        Let me introduce you to distrobox. It containerizes the distro of choice, and allows you to install any software of any distro, without messing any system files.

        Regarding the VPN case though, I haven’t tested it, but I would rather install any kind of proprietary software inside a VM. Steam may be an exception.

      • exuAEnglish
        7·
        1 day ago

        You can just make an AUR package that downloads and installs the .deb

      • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
        9·
        1 day ago

        There is a crow pulling both wolves by the tail called “bedrock linux” that can install packages using both apt and aur.

        Oh god… what happens when they both try to pull the same library as a dependency, but slightly different versions because different repos?

      • xxce2AAb@feddit.dk
        28·
        1 day ago

        Yeah, but I need to be able to actually do shit. Preferably in finite amounts of time.

      • jim3692@discuss.online
        7·
        1 day ago

        The Nix package manager can be installed on most distros.

        Keep in mind though:

        • GPU accelerated apps will require nixGL, or symlinking Nix’s Mesa to /run/opengl-drivers
        • Debian 12 has an ancient version of nix, and you need to first grab the nix binaries from the 24.11 channel. Newer channels do not support Debian’s nix
        • Fedora may require to disable SELinux. Otherwise it can be a real pain to properly configure nix
      • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca
        4·
        1 day ago

        Look at me I am running a package management system with atomic upgrades that can roll back, and indubitable sounds positively fabulous.

        Mostash

    • Ofiuco@piefed.caEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      Currently trying CachyOS KDE, so far it’s decent but… I still have no idea where the flathub repository is supposed to be managed from (yes, Ive seen the wiki, no, it’s not where it says it should be) and the app store was a lot friendlier on Fedora KDE.
      Things run better here and things that didn’t run on Fedora, actually run on Cachy so that’s a reason to be less angry at myself. I just have to test Xlink Kai, mumble server and ZeroTier to see if they work.

    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
      41·
      1 day ago

      No, thanks. I like my distro not to break with updates ever. Arch breaks stuff every few months at least. I know cause I have used it. Also I prefer to just have fewer updates in general.

    • exuAEnglish
      41·
      1 day ago

      Paru is a rust rewrite(ish) of yay and therefor even even betterer

      Edit: uncorrecting autocorrect