What distro(s) do you use?
What distro(s) do you use?
What Linux distribution or distributions do you personally use?
I myself am a daily Void user. I used to use Devuan, but wanted to try rolling release and ended up loving Void!
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Servers: Debian Stable no DE
Desktop: Pop OS or Ubuntu
I've used everything from Arch and Gentoo to fedora and Ubuntu. But I found myself enjoying the stability of Debian but hating the lack of newer packages. The latter of which isnt usually a problem when it comes to single purpose servers.
Yes, 100% this. Debian stable, no GUI for servers. Never have a problem.
Wait what do you mean debian doesn't have newer packages? I've never used it. Do the packages only get updated on a distro update?
They do get updated but very conservatively. They prioritize stability so their older kernel and system/library packages means all of their packages in general are also kept behind. Debian 11 for example is still on Python 3.9.2 whereas in Arch it's at 3.11.3 (and it's called python not python3).
Yes and no. They seem to prioritize stability and security over everything else. So they usually only push updates to the stable repo if it doesn't compromise those 2 points (so new features are okay but so long as they don't create new instability or at the very least fix a security flaw).
So in other words nothing there is particularly ancient but most things are several versions behind just due to bugs being found etc. Great for servers but on a desktop most people wouldn't notice these kind of bugs so they tend to get pushed in other distro's a lot sooner.
I think so. They get freezed at some time on unstable (I think?). Then, if you need a newer (major version) of a package you need some other package source than the default Debian one to get it.