Subj : Re: Which version of Linux?
To   : Accession
From : esc
Date : Sat Nov 26 2022 09:16 pm

Ac> If I may ask, what tends to break on you once in awhile? In my
Ac> experience, the only issues I've ever had is while upgrading, (and this
Ac> doesn't happen very often, mind you) PGP keys aren't removed or some
Ac> such and you have to install archlinux-keyring manually before
Ac> continuing with a normal pacman upgrade.

In the past year I've dealt with a Grub break, a systemd secure boot break, a GPU driver break, and a systemd-homed break (which caused me to abandon it and just revert to traditional user management). There was also a btrfs issue when I started setting up the laptop I'm using now which caused me to abandon btrfs. But I have had a ton of issues...that's not to say I mind it a ton, necessarily, since this is my personal desktop and I expect this kind of thing, but this certainly isn't something I'd wanna be dealing with on any of my servers.

Ac> Otherwise, I have nothing against Debian, especially for a server
Ac> platform. It just doesn't 'tickle my fancy', lol. I think I've had more
Ac> issues in the past with Ubuntu than anything else, but that was back
Ac> when I still used a GUI and apparantly they phased out my video card at
Ac> the time which took forever to figure out. By the time I did they were
Ac> just starting to introduce the "legacy" drivers and any time you ran an
Ac> upgrade (not even a major one) everything went to shit and had to spend
Ac> hours fixing it. I'm sure it's a lot better now, but it still leaves a
Ac> sour taste for me. Had I been using any other distro at the time I
Ac> probably wouldn't have anything against Ubuntu either. ;)

Yeah, I have to use Ubuntu for work and it's ok enough, but I really prefer Ubuntu Server with no gui/x/wayland/etc. Ubuntu Server, IMO, is a slightly more frequently updated version of Debian which has the benefit of using PPAs for some things like dosemu :)

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