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by neilv 873 days ago
> No idea why you guys put up with this bullshit. I use [...] macOS,

That's the authoritarian alternative, to the perpetually backstabbing option.

Debian Stable is the actually wholesome marriage material.

https://www.debian.org/distrib/
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devnullbrain 873 days ago
>Debian

OK, sure

>Stable

Masochism

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marcosdumay 873 days ago
Well, then install the testing version and complain on HN that Linux is broken and won't stay working for long.

(Even though the MTBF of Debian testing is at least 5 times larger than Windows.)

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devnullbrain 873 days ago
It's the other way around. Trying to search for problems with Stable is more difficult because potential fixes require things your OS doesn't have yet.
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neilv 873 days ago
I haven't much had this problem with Debian Stable.

For awhile, there would be a thing with people using, say, JS libraries, and they'd want to Stack Overflow copy&paste something. But the more reckless of those people just ended up bypassing Debian with NPM or some other language-specific package manager. And less-reckless people can decide when they can just use Debian or have to pull select bits of software some other way.

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