As the old Gentoo mantra goes: stuff breaks so you can learn things :D
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To be honest, I find Gentoo really stable. Nothing really breaks unless I am messing with something (replacing some core part of a system, etc.). When compared to Arch it is a much smoother experience.
I bet. That was 20 years ago :D
I didn't know that's a Gentoo mantra! As a Gentoo user, you won't believe how often I broke the system due to my own stupidity... But at least I now know not to repeat those particular mistakes. :D
@eshep If you don't mind, I'll repeat this saying. You'll never learn to fix what you don't break... or have lots of users on your product willing to break it for you!
A similar thing I've learned is something like... Success very rarely if ever happens the first time. Everything great is built by those who have failed in the attempt to do something similar many, many times.
Failing repeatedly in the attempt to do something great can be more indicative of success than... "not failing" is.
Personally I found Fedora a great compromise in between. I never really had any issues with it and it is fairly up to date in terms of packages.
Although with Void I forget I'm on a rolling release
Based void user
kekw Gotta love the classics hehe
Depends what hardware you have. Last I tried, Debian still didn't work with my Arc A770 even with unstable.
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