• _cnt0@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I use fedora as a daily driver and debian for everything that just needs to do one thing for possibly decades to come with as little maintenance as possible.

      • rumschlumpel@feddit.orgEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Sometimes, you do need some newer packages (e.g. for gaming), and Debian is … not very good at facilitating that, even if it’s usually possible, in theory, to install newer packages from Sid. Flatpaks or manually installing stuff through git etc. help, but that doesn’t work well for stuff like GPU drivers.

        • Magnum, P.I.@infosec.pubEnglish
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          7 months ago

          I game without problems on Debian Stable for years. Everyone keeps saying that and I didnt have a single problem because of “old packages”

          • rumschlumpel@feddit.orgEnglish
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            7 months ago

            It depends on the games you play and how long you wait after a game’s release. Maybe if your GPU is from NVIDIA, AMD/Radeon or Intel. I use Ubuntu LTS on my main PC and every once in a while, there is a game that just doesn’t work until I install newer drivers and kernels (the newer packages get automatically disabled when you do a major version update, so I can test this about every 2 years). I have no reason to believe that this would be any different on Debian stable.

          • Holytimes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            7 months ago

            You likely have old hardware and play old games. Which is fine on Debian.

            Try playing day 1 releases of major titles on brand new hardware weeks after it releases.

            It’s not fun.

      • _cnt0@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        7 months ago

        My set of requirements for a daily driver is very different. From experience, I’ll end up with a frankendebian that requires much more manual intervention and has a high risk of breaking during updates.

        • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          7 months ago

          fair point. I fucked my install trying to make my overheating issues go away, but after going onto nobara, pika os I think the issues are here to stay. I’m going to try to stop overtinkering to stop getting frankendebian

    • toynbee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I would use Debian more if I didn’t have to remember whether to use apt or yum every time I ssh’d into a random server on my network.

      • pulsewidth@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 months ago

        I think this is why some people use Neofetch (and its contemporaries).

        It helps give a quick rundown of server specs, OS, etc to help remind you of the command mindset you need to be operating in when you connect to a new machine remotely - just quickly run your info tool of choice.

        • toynbee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          7 months ago

          Yeah, or I could put something in the prompt, I’ve considered writing an alias or function so instead of yum or apt I could just run install and let the system run what it must.

          It’s not really a big concern, though. I don’t run that many systems and I reimage them with different distros often enough that it hasn’t been worth addressing for me.

          Thank you for the suggestion though!