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by djhaskin987 1388 days ago
If we're talking about server operating systems, yes, I commiserate with you. But the same principle is applied with Arch Linux, and I've never felt more joy interacting with a packaging system (or Linux community for that matter). Everything is packaged and up-to-date (again, sometimes too up to date). I use Fedora at home and it's at most months behind, but certainly not years, and usually strikes that sweet spot between stability and annoyance.
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adgjlsfhk1 1388 days ago
I take should try an arch variant soon. I'm on an Ubuntu, and I'm at the point where I've learned to live with the jank, but don't love it.
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eigenspace 1388 days ago
As someone using an Arch variant, I can say that the newness of the packages isn't really a problem. The real problem is that there's no package compatability bounds, so even if a new version of a package is known to be incompatible with something you have installed, it'll happily upgrade that package anyways. Plus, there's no easy way to request an old version of a package.

I just wish I could just Julia's package manager as my Linux Distro.

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djhaskin987 1387 days ago
Probably what the guix[1] folks are trying to do, use a "more sophisticated" package manager for OS.

1: https://guix.gnu.org/en/download/

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