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100 sats \ 6 replies \ @88b0c423eb 21 May \ parent \ on: Is it just me or is pacman package manager not intuitive devs
well one can't be 100% sure on that as it depends on other factors...but having everywithng updated as soon is it's out by the devs can bring a lot of bugs, including security bugs. Take the xzutils for example, arch almost fell into it, as debian stable would take much more and many more eyes looking at the core before upgrade that package.
Yeah, that makes sense
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the critics on debian(stable) on the other side is that it takes too long to update. But as my experience goes being many years on linux as as a sysadmin my opinion is that debian is still more secure than others taking a standard isntall and use.
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FWIW I always use Debian on a server for these reasons.
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it simply works
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It is absurdly reliable on servers. I haven't used the Desktop... I do want the newest packages. I need that as a dev. Its a tradeoff.
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Indeed a lot have that need. From my walk in linux I have met debian devs that use always debian sid on their desktop. Other general devs love arch. In my opinion and experience I prefer arch over debian sid, as I have have problems with debian sid many times, and arch is very very stable as a desktop, it never breaks just keep it updated and with two kernels installed, I like having the latest kernel and the LTS kernel.