Okay I have a case coming in to shove my junk in it. 8500t (temporary until I get a 8700k) -16gb ram -1060 6gb -2 2.5ssd -2 3.5hdd

I’m partial to Mint and Debian commands. Anyone have a suggestion before I go balls deep into a Mint distro build?

    • Ooops@feddit.org
      5·
      7 hours ago

      YMMV… but in my experience that whole “time to maintain arch”-idea is overstated.

      I defintiely spend less time on issues like “oh, there’s a bug. let’s role that update back and try again in 6-24 hours when it’s fixed” or “defaults changed in a new version, let’s take a quick look at the changes” on arch than on annoying bugs persisting for years in fixed distros. And that’s before calculating the whole “distro upgrade every otehr year”-stuff. Which likes to kill a whole weekend at least and barely ever works (followed by the same “oh, defaults changed” but now on dozens of components at the same time).

      And because of that second point in particular even if archlinux wouldn’t be my choice I could never go back to a non-rolling release.

      • ProtonBadger@lemmy.ca
        2·
        4 hours ago

        I’ve been using Linux since the nineties and I’ve been through the rolling distros and agree with you that usually it’s not a big hassle, just keep an eye on the process and .pacsave/.pacnew (or .rpm-ditto) - but I just don’t bother at all anymore, I only game and code some Rust and I prefer a LTS distro that keeps the kernel up to date, for me that’s the best of both worlds.

        I’d also say that running a major upgrade on my stable distros (both on servers and laptop) takes less than an hour, not a weekend and I never have issues with it. Issues when upgrading either rolling (every update) or LTS releases usually comes from the admin having made incompat/bad changes to the system on their own.

    • Chewt@beehaw.org
      1·
      8 hours ago

      You could get an arch based distro and let the distro maintainers handle it. I use EndeavourOS and its been great for the past 3 years