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Linux middle ground? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by Bunny19@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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so a common claim I see made is that arch is up to date than Debian but harder to maintain and easier to break. Is there a good sort of middle ground distro between the reliability of Debian and the up-to-date packages of arch?

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[–] unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Atomic distros + distrobox/toolbx. Bluefin is a good start for general desktop or Bazzite for gaming (But Bluefin can be more stable, I use it for some games with steam in flatpak). If something breaks roll back to any release in the last 90 days with a single command. Install all of your packages in a distrobox (Arch if you need it). Otherwise in general Fedora is pretty good.

[–] lupec@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago

+1 for bazzite, if I wasn't a NixOS cultist it's probably what I'd still be daily driving. Stable, easy rollbacks, keeps itself updated as long as you reboot now and then. Just a great experience all around.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

You are the meme

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They were not asking about immutable Linux...

[–] lupec@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Atomic distros are still distros, op never excluded that particular kind

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

True but you could of just said something Fedora based

[–] unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 1 points 6 days ago

I'm not comfortable that Fedora and derivatives give the same stability opportunity as Atomic distros

[–] unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 1 points 6 days ago

No they probably wanted to hear how great some random Arch derivatives that does that thing 3 people are talking about