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Debian Sid makes a pretty good "rolling release" distro for home/hobby use at least, although I prefer OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for this.

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kelnos3y ago· 2 in thread

Sid is unstable (by definition and design)b wouldn't recommend as a daily driver. Testing is a decent rolling release distro, though.

matthews23y ago

Testing isn't rolling release. Every 2 years, testing becomes stable, and stable becomes oldstable.

abenga3y ago

Not if you explicitly use the word "testing" in your apt config though, no? But yeah, after the hard freeze, changes do slow down until it stable is released, then there is a flood of changes.

WastingMyTime893y ago· 2 in thread

But you will still be subjected to Debian crazy rules regarding applied patch sets.

Nowadays you can get a full featured, well integrated and properly working user land on Linux with next to zero customisation with systemd and Gnome. I really recommend using a distribution which stays as close to vanilla as possible.

JohnFen3y ago

Sure, if you find Gnome to your tastes. I can (just barely) live with systemd, but I am very allergic to Gnome.

WastingMyTime893y ago

It's the same with any DE nowadays. Switch Gnome by KDE or any other. The base system is uniform enough that things just fit together.

Debian would still patch far too much to my taste without the integration anyway.

They remove/rebrand what they don't find free enough, want to make things "modular", want to split development and base packages, want to support a ton of architectures upstream doesn't care about and want to integrate things in their historic tooling. It has introduced some severe bugs in the past.

kombine3y ago

I recently put Tumbleweed on my laptop and am pleasantly surprised. You get new packages very fast thanks to automated testing, built-in btrfs snapshots allow you to undo a problematic update. Will be moving my main Ubuntu desktop to it soon.

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