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by Breazy 1622 days ago
> It works great if you're running a server with standard software from official distro repos that is infrequently updated.

It's not frequent updates that screwed you, it's using third party repos. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is an RPM based rolling release distro with up-to-date software that I've found to be very suitable, and stable, for desktop use. Before switching to Tumbleweed, I previously used Debian Sid for a long time. Contrary to Sid's 'unstable' moniker, was always very stable for me when I wasn't pulling in 3rd party repos or trying to mix Sid with Stable (the notorious 'frankendebian'.)
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martinald 1621 days ago
By "infrequently updated", I mean software where it is "ok" to be running versions released months/years ago in the official repos and not having to resort to 3rd party repos to get more up to date software.

Nearly everyone has to use 3rd party software at some point though. There just isn't a good solution for this on Linux. Too many people assume Linux users only use open source software that is in the official package repos. It totally excludes commercial software, niche stuff, etc.

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