Maybe what I’m looking for is the holy grail, but what do you guys suggest as a Distro with a good balance between stability and up-to-date packages?

  • xbreak@lemmy.ml
    6·
    1 year ago

    NixOS would fit the bill if you’re not afraid of something different. With Nix it’s trivial to cherry pick from unstable channel if you still want a stable base.

      • Justin@lemmy.jlh.name
        1·
        1 year ago

        tbf neither does Fedora.

        But yeah, I would recommend either Debian or NixOS, depending on how stable you want it.

      • Lanthanae@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        0·
        1 year ago

        Is this not solved by using the “unstable” nixpkgs channel or is that something different?

        I’m a NixOS newbie and still learning a lot about it haha

        • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          The stable branches promise no breaking changes (in configuration options etc.). Unstable is a rolling release with everything that entails (personally I use it on desktops and stable on servers).