friend-of-linus
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Having used arch for almost 10 years, how time flies, I fancied a change as the constant push to do full updates is my main gripe with it.
I originally chose it, not knowing much about it, because I read it was very modular and you can make a minimal system and build from there.
I was not disappointed in that regard but the constant push to always be upgrading has gotten on my nerves. Now, in hindsight the problems in the past were mostly because I would only upgrade when I absolutely could not avoid it when I was getting loads of shared library errors when I wanted to install a new package with the much discourage partial upgrade of
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Having reluctantly started doing things 'by the book' and doing full system upgrades mostly when I install a new package, which is perhaps every couple of months, things have gone much smoother in that regard with no huge several day's productivity destroying breakages of old.
Having run debian on a few servers over the years I much prefer the glacial update ethos so thinking to give it a whirl as my main desktop OS on another laptop I have been gifted.
As most in the linux community will know arch users have the biggest chips on their shoulders out of any other distro, at least that I have come across. Why is that? I mean there are more 'hardcore' distros out there like slack or linux from scratch and having asked some questions on the slack forums before people are way more down to earth than the arch neckbeard wizards.b
Going to debian I feel will be going down on the totem pole and can no longer count myself among those elite breed of the linux fraternity.
I had given Slack serious consideration to not lose points in that regard and indeed perhaps earn myself some more accolades however upon learning it is about as far from minimal in design philosophy as you can get, cool rationality swayed me away from that choice.
I plan to do a minimal netinst of the classic, Debian, and install ratpoison DE as per my arch install.
I had read around for other minimal distros and most times they were some debian flavour, AntiX, Peppermint, anyway so I thought, upon reading recommendations of the same, why not go straight to the source with a minimal debian install?
I originally chose it, not knowing much about it, because I read it was very modular and you can make a minimal system and build from there.
I was not disappointed in that regard but the constant push to always be upgrading has gotten on my nerves. Now, in hindsight the problems in the past were mostly because I would only upgrade when I absolutely could not avoid it when I was getting loads of shared library errors when I wanted to install a new package with the much discourage partial upgrade of
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pacman -S package-nameHaving reluctantly started doing things 'by the book' and doing full system upgrades mostly when I install a new package, which is perhaps every couple of months, things have gone much smoother in that regard with no huge several day's productivity destroying breakages of old.
Having run debian on a few servers over the years I much prefer the glacial update ethos so thinking to give it a whirl as my main desktop OS on another laptop I have been gifted.
As most in the linux community will know arch users have the biggest chips on their shoulders out of any other distro, at least that I have come across. Why is that? I mean there are more 'hardcore' distros out there like slack or linux from scratch and having asked some questions on the slack forums before people are way more down to earth than the arch neckbeard wizards.b
Going to debian I feel will be going down on the totem pole and can no longer count myself among those elite breed of the linux fraternity.
I had given Slack serious consideration to not lose points in that regard and indeed perhaps earn myself some more accolades however upon learning it is about as far from minimal in design philosophy as you can get, cool rationality swayed me away from that choice.
I plan to do a minimal netinst of the classic, Debian, and install ratpoison DE as per my arch install.
I had read around for other minimal distros and most times they were some debian flavour, AntiX, Peppermint, anyway so I thought, upon reading recommendations of the same, why not go straight to the source with a minimal debian install?
