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by pyrophane 818 days ago
> I need to stay on the cutting edge for desktop environments, display protocols, and graphics drivers due to issues with NVIDIA and the Linux desktop (especially Wayland). Many developments are happening in real-time to improve them.

Only if you want to personally experience every single bug as it is introduced upstream.
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doubled112 818 days ago
Sure. If you run rolling releases, you get new bugs and new fixes as they come out.

If you run a stable distro, you get the same bugs for the whole release.

There's merit to both strategies. I use Debian on everything I can, but that's not necessarily what I'd recommend everybody use.

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pyrophane 817 days ago
I wasn't referring specifically to rolling vs fixed release distros, and more just generally about the state of Nvidia's drivers on Wayland. Most distros still fallback to X11 with Nvidia because the Nvidia+Wayland still feels very much like a WIP.
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johnny22 818 days ago
or the middle ground of something like fedora where they update many packages during the release cycle.
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